Accountants

The nature of accounting sector calls for effective document management and a greater mindfulness of compliance and data protection regulations. With increased cases of auditing and accounting services for both personal and business clients, the use of IT in managing business processes is set to grow further as clients demand professional services to be more responsive, cost efficient, and secure. With this in mind, Virtual Practices has been developed as an effective yet inexpensive tool to help you operate a more controlled and secure accounting practice.

Clients Record Management

It automatically files and updates all your correspondence, emails, documents and forms in client order. So even when you’re under pressure, you can retrieve them quickly and easily, with a clear audit trail to prove due diligence. In addition, it allows customisable access to client files across your firm whilst protecting against loss or damage of client records.

Time Management and Billing

Virtual Practices offers a flexible, easy to use integrated time recording tool that is highly intuitive and very simple to use, making time recording quick and accurate. It enables you to:  

  • record in real time using an on-screen clock 
  • record in minutes or units with time posting slips
  • automatically capture and record time when you produce/send emails, letters and documents to your clients
  • automatically record time against incoming client emails 
  • integrate with smart phones and Blackberrys to record time even when you’re on the move

Document Production

Many of your daily tasks, such as writing to a client, creating a new engagement file or generating a bill or audit report, involve time-consuming repetition. Using your letterheads and bill templates, Virtual Practices takes care of time-consuming jobs quickly and efficiently. It adapts to the way you work, speeding up your processes without changing them.


Efficiency and Continuity

Being a fully-hosted system, neither will you need to worry about taking back-ups of your work or data - that's all done for you at a secure data centre, providing your business with a level of continuity and security that you could never expect to achieve running a system in-house. You can access all the software features from your Microsoft Outlook screen, and as it’s intuitive and logical, training time is minimal. So almost straight away, you can offer even better customer service and focus on more remunerative activities. For small to medium sized accounting practices, Virtual Practice is the host to a brighter outlook.
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