7 Signs Your Small Business Has Outgrown Spreadsheet Bookkeeping

Spreadsheets are a perfectly good way to start. The trouble is knowing when they've stopped being good enough — most business owners notice only after something has already gone wrong.

The seven signs

• You're finding reconciliation errors more than once a quarter
• Month-end close regularly slips past the 10th of the following month
• You can't answer "what's our cash position" without opening three files
• Invoices or bills are occasionally missed or duplicated
• Your accountant charges more each year just to clean up before filing
• You've had a near-miss with a tax deadline because books weren't ready
• You're the only person who understands your own bookkeeping system

What changes when you move off spreadsheets

Cloud accounting software with a dedicated bookkeeper behind it turns bookkeeping from a monthly scramble into a standing, reviewed process — reconciled weekly, reported monthly, and readable by anyone who needs to check it, not just you.