A question often asked of us is ‘How vital is a knowledge of bookkeeping and accounting when you’re using E-conomic?’ and often these are passed to me to answer because in fact I use the system myself for my own book-keeping and trust me, they don’t come with much less professional knowledge than my own good self - I only recently  discovered double entry wasn’t putting something in twice to make sure you got it right – a kind of belts and braces approach!

So I’m here to assure those individual businessmen and women even now nervously chewing their fingernails that if you’re using E-conomic as an individual business owner you need no professional book-keeping knowledge whatsoever to get all the benefits and you can choose just as much or as little of the system as you like.

My personal use is simply entering individual quotes, upgrading them to firm orders, invoicing once the work’s been done (oh happy day!) and then entering monies received (happier still!).

I then sit back and let my accountant do whatever he wants from his end, fairly smug in the knowledge that the days of a file full of rather grubby, coffee stained,  invoice copies are long gone. Of course I fully appreciate I’m at one end of an extremely long scale and that many of our other  E-conomic clients with branches all over the country, several hundred staff and turnover hovering around £ several million, are using the system to a somewhat different depth and functionality.

And there you have the beauty of E-conomic (and I never thought I’d hear myself say that about an accounting system). But there’s no getting away from the fact it works well for you however little or large you might be, however simple or complex your requirements.

A lot of people ask Anders and Jacob (whose baby E-conomic is) why they didn’t create something far less complex and just aim at either small businesses or large ones.  In typical down to earth Danish style they shrug,  ‘Why only please some of the business world when you can keep all of it happy?’ – And quite frankly there’s really nothing one can add to that, is there?

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