You used to have to pay an accountant to keep track of your billboard company financials or spend several hundred dollars for accounting software which would only run on a single computer. If your accountant was on vacation or your computer crashed you had no access to financials. Those days are no more.
I recommend Quickbooks by Intuit to keep track of your billboard financials. I use it for my lending companies as well as my billboard company and highly recommend it. Here are the benefits.
- The service is cheap ($10-25/month depending on the number of users).
- You can give your accountant free access to quickbooks at tax time which limits the number of info requests you’ll have to field at tax or audit time.
- The service is on Intuit’s servers which means you can conveiniently access financials from any internet connection.
- The service is secure and reliable. I cannot remember a service outage apart from normal maintenance as long as I have been a customer.
- You can set up recurring invoices for long term outdoor clients.
- The system can process credit card as well as cash or check payments.
- The service can also handle payroll accounting issues which frees up your time for more important matters.
