Potential customers often email me for advice on the suitability of our product range for their businesses. So, in this blog I thought that some rough guidelines  might help. Our accounting spreadsheets are designed for  small businsses and  ‘Not for Profit’ Organisations. The MrSpreadSheet Accounting Software range caters for VAT, Flat Rate VAT and non VAT Registered businesses. Typically our users would have up to 100 transactions per month. Most [...]

Bookkeeping Templates  - I am biased … Now, let’s be honest, I sell accounting spreadsheets, so, I am obviously biased! My answer will sing the praises for  ‘simple’, easy to use bookkeeping and accounting spreadsheets and at the same time pour ridicule and scorn over more expensive proprietary accounting software  packages. But, not so. My background is 100% Accountancy, and for the past 25 years 80% Accounting Software.  I am [...]

It is easy and inexpensive to use accounting templates but are they the correct choice for small businesses?   We all know that there is a legal requirement to maintain accurate accounting records covering your business transactions. The tax man, the VAT man and a miscellany of compliance regulations means that accurate bookkeeping records are essential. Notwithstanding the above, keeping correct information is vital if you want to run your [...]

Accounting Templates – A historic tale … I am very old, in fact I am old enough to remember good old fashioned Accounting Ledgers, Yes, those archaic, well-thumbed pages bound by two black leather covers and covered in pristine numeric script. Also popular at the time were large red cash books, which when opened had row after row and column after column of this same pristine numeric script. [Could the [...]

Accounting Software – are accounting spreadsheets the answer for small businesses? Spreadsheets are widely used and understood by most business people, so it comes as no great surprise that accounting spreadsheets are a popular choice for many small businesses. All businesses need to keep accounting records; both for compliance and management purposes, and for many smaller businesses, simple accounting spreadsheets are all that are required. Let’s just outline exactly what [...]

Accounting Software - MrSpreadSheet’s very humble origins … Accounting Spreadsheets on eBay … One day I was trawling through eBay and, because my business  has long been involved with accounting products, I typed  the two words  Accounting Software  into the search box and carefully reviewed the results.   Apart from the usual suspects of Sage and QuickBooks, I was quite surprised to see many unheard of  brands. In fact it was [...]