Author Archives: Cindy Hovig

Xero Reporting: Unreconciled Statement Lines

You probably are familiar with how Xero allows users to leave notes under the Discuss Tab for unreconciled statement lines within the Bank Reconciliation screen. We have found that this is a great tool for collaboration between us and our clients and also for our clients. Once again Xero has made a good thing even […]

Xero the Hero: Three Invoicing Tips to Help You Get Paid Faster

Beyond Balanced Books

It’s important to get paid from your customers. We know this, you know this, they know this, but dealing with late payments is a pain (pun intended) we all have to deal with at times. Here are three invoicing tips to help you get paid faster in Xero. 1. Email your Invoices Snail mailing your […]

We Love Working With Contractors

We love working with contractors. In fact we would say that we specialize in working with contractors. Why?  My husband is a landscape contractor. This makes it easy for me to relate on a personal level to contractors. Doing the day to day bookkeeping of my husband’s business for more than three decades has given […]

Beyond Balanced Books is Xero’s 2016 Bookkeeping Partner of the Year

Xero's Bookkeeping Partner of the Year

Many of you know that we were in San Francisco last week at XeroCon. We were delighted to receive the award of Xero’s 2016 Bookkeeping Partner of the Year!  We are so honored to have won this award. XeroCon is the ultimate accounting technology conference and we had a fun filled four days. We can’t wait to tell […]

Things are Changing with Modern Client Accounting Services

Beyond Balanced Books

Recently our team was talking about how bookkeeping used to be done with a paper system. How archaic that method seems now! Much has changed with client accounting services today. Think about all the changes the industry has seen in the last 20 years. From paper to the desktop computer, from the desktop computer to the cloud. […]

Sending Receipts in Xero

paper airplane sending receipts in Xero

If you are a client that uses invoices in Xero, you likely already know that you can send electronic copies to your customers. However, did you know that you can also send electronic receipts? Let’s discuss sending receipts in Xero. Send a receipt directly from payment First, locate the invoice payment by going to Bank […]

Millennials and the Cloud

Millennials are taking over the work force. They have surpassed the baby boomers as the nation’s largest living generations. Millennials are those born between 1980 and close to 2000. Most likely you have millennials working in your business, in fact you might have predominantly millennials in your business. It’s important to understand millennials because they […]

Take our test – can cloud accounting improve the way you work?

Cloud accounting solutions are changing the way small businesses work.   As cloud accounting experts, we can help you determine which cloud solution is right for your business.   Here are a few questions to help you think about whether we might be able to help: Do you have account balances or financial statements that don’t make sense? […]

Client loyalty: why you benefit

 “Effective customer relationship management means organising your entire business to focus on the needs of customers.” We take pride in client loyalty. It is an extremely important part of our ethos. We believe it drives us to work harder for our people, and we also believe in the nature of a longstanding client-accountant partnership. Client loyalty […]