Accounting Software – Finding the Right Package For Your Small Business
Doing your own business can be both challenging and learning experience for oneself. The functions of planning, organizing, controlling and monitoring are completely in your hand. You are the person who will face losses or profits from the business. The entire business will depend on your strategies whether they are powerful enough to reap benefit for you at the end or not.However, doing a business involves numerous routine tasks that are at your disposal to perform. One of the tasks that are very important for your business which will keep a track of your business financial activities is record keeping and producing tax returns of your business. There are a majority of the activities that can be implemented later as they are not in serious in nature, but the task of record keeping should be your top priority.Before you buy accounting software for your small business, there has to be the acceptance of the program. It is to do with setting out an amount of time that will be required to perform the software task. The reason for putting so much importance on it is to avoid the time that may get wasted if the software is not performed correctly.The other important consideration before you buy accounting software for your small business is the simplicity of the software. There are softwares in the market that are flashy in nature which can either be a distraction for you or you may find it difficult to understand its complex features. Rather than solving the problem, it may aggravate the situation plus time consuming as well. Therefore, it is better to know it before the software with normal functions that can be purchased right away.Furthermore, before you buy accounting software for your small business, it is also vital to analyze your entire operation in order to determine which of the functions need the services of the accounting software. Many of the owners are just focused on the task of income reporting and tax calculation and tend to ignore what future holds for them. Future involves inevitable changes in the business. One of the changes may include recruiting employees for the business. This task will definitely involve the function of a payroll tax that has to be determined from the accounting software. There are other changes that may happen in future and it is not easy to predict them. Therefore, it is always good to forecast the basic changes that can happen for the business and purchase the software that can be customized in incorporate such changes.In addition, before you buy accounting software for your small business, it is also necessary to search the software with fewer features. There are many irrelevant features which are of no use such as making coffee for you and various others. Hence, buy the software with limited important features.Last but not the least, softwares take time to learn. There are many trails and demo available online that can make you learn the software until the arrival of the software. In this way, you can save a good amount of time.
The Best Job In The World?
1999 was probably the worst year of my professional life. Unsatisfying office jobs followed by long periods of unemployment and claiming benefits. I’d also missed out on an opportunity to train as a Microsoft certified programmer because I was unable to find a placement. The dream of making my way into the world of employment had turned into an absolute nightmare, at times I felt like a total failure.
Towards the end of 1999 an opportunity arose for me to work in a casino. I’d always loved card games after seeing the glitz and glamour of casinos in James Bond movies. Dissatisfied with life in Northern Ireland, at the age of just 20, I packed a couple of suitcases and ended up going to the Isle of Man to train as a croupier (casino dealer) in January 2000. 18 months later I was working on my first cruise ship, and 18 months after that I was boarding the QE2 (the most famous ship of them all) to do a world cruise.
For a young man from a housing estate in Antrim, Northern Ireland this was beyond even my wildest dreams. On a ferry from Belfast to Liverpool in 1997, I’d once seen a pontoon table and croupier and dreamt what it may be to work as a casino dealer on the high seas.
Everything aboard the QE2 was as you would expect, starting with Captain Ron Warwick, who looked exactly what the captain of the QE2 should look like (Google the name if you don’t believe me). Passenger facing crew were immaculate in their appearance. I could probably have shaved with the crease on my pressed tuxedo shirts, and on a number of occassions when I had been sunburnt in port, I could feel the creases cutting into my tender skin as I dealt the cards that evening in the casino.
The great thing for croupiers on cruise ships is that they only work when the ship is in international waters, in port, the casino must close, and casino staff are free to do pretty much whatever they want. Casino staff have a cabin steward who cleans their cabin and takes away their dirty laundry and brings it back fresh each day. We did a 103 day world cruise which included stops in places like Hong Kong, Sydney, Cape Town, Hawaii, Mauritius, Nagasaki, Tahiti and Singapore to name a few. I managed to do some amazing excursions like diving in the great barrier reef, quad biking in the Namibian desert, and dining in all sorts of fine restaurants, trying delicacies like Springbok, Kangaroo, Crocodile and Kobe beef. We made stops in 5 continents, crossed the equator and even experienced living a Tuesday in consequetive days when we crossed the world timeline. Imagine that, you go to bed on Tuesday night, wake up the following morning and its Tuesday again, but this was far from groundhog day.
The role in the casino was not about taking passengers’ money like in a land-based casino, it was about providing them with fun and entertainment. The passengers were friendly and pleasant, many of them being extremely successful people (I understand the lowest cabin cost for a world cruise on the QE2 was about $50,000 in 2003). A lot of the passengers had never played in a casino and were fascinated to learn and experience the one onboard. Just getting to know some of these people was an experience in itself, and a large part of the role in the casino was simply to entertain them whilst they were in the casino.
There were also celebrity passengers. We would finish work and go to the crew/members bar where we would have guest entertainers like the late Des O’Connor and the magician, the late Paul Daniels down to have a drink. God bless them both.
Was my job the best job in the world? Maybe not for everyone, but it was beyond even my wildest dreams and the 6 month experience, as well as the amazing people I met will be something I treasure forever. I was very lucky to have lived this experience and will always be incredibly grateful for it.
Many years have passed since then and I’ve always missed the buzz of casinos which is how Fun 21 Casino Hire was created in 2021. My celebrities now are anyone who hires the No Money Fun Casino that I provide for parties and celebrations, and I aim to give the same experience that you would expect onboard the QE2.