Sitting here as I fly over Siberia I can’t help but think how one of Xero’s strongest selling points is also – presently – an enormous weakness!
The beauty of Xero is that it is an Internet based Accounting Package – meaning where I can connect I can view and work on my accounts.
With the start of our new financial year I finally converted my 4 remaining companies onto Xero. In one of my accounts I now have over 350 Bank transactions to reconcile.
While sitting here with not a lot else to do I can’t do a bank reconciliation.
This post is a little tongue-in-cheek really! While I will have to reconcile my accounts at some stage the one thing I enjoy about flying is that it does prevent you doing some things and therefore forcing you to do others such as read!
As I said at the start being online is what I perceive as one of Xero’s biggest assets. Being a central online system is fantastic, especially considering how much I travel currently. The files for my old accounting system add up to 150mb which to continually copy backwards and forwards became a nightmare on poor connections and there was always the inherent risk of losing data if other people accessed the files in the meantime.
So thumbs up for Xero, I know in the near future I will have an Internet connection while flying and will be able to catch up on my accounts. But in reality while flying I enjoy not being able to do things more than I would enjoy being able to!