We’re delighted to announce that we have been made a Platinum Partner of leading cloud accountancy provider QuickBooks UK, owned by Intuit, and are currently the only Platinum Partner in Huddersfield.
QuickBooks UK made the decision to advance us to Platinum Partner following our commitment to training our team in the product and then quickly rolling it out to our client base - which included information events, followed by training sessions held both as groups and one-to-one.
Cloud accounting solutions are becoming increasingly prevalent following the announcement of the Government led “Making Tax Digital”, an initiative which will demand that businesses submit quarterly accounting information to HMRC via a cloud book-keeping package.
Even though the Making Tax Digital initiative was removed from the Finance Bill due to the announcement of the General Election in June, we anticipate that the legislation will just be delayed and will be revisited very soon. Businesses should not wait though until a cloud solution is forced upon them, they should act now to get such a system in place early – they will very quickly be pleased that they did.
QuickBooks allows businesses to keep records in real-time and store this in a cloud-based system. Allied to the efficiencies to be gained from a cloud product, with functionality such as live bank feeds, cloud book-keeping is becoming the benchmark for progressive businesses.
As a Platinum Partner, we can offer their clients a knowledgeable cloud solution, with the product being set up, opening balances transferred, and all the necessary training provided. Clients can either complete their own records on QuickBooks, or allow us to manage the book-keeping function.
David Kay, Sales Leader at QuickBooks UK commented on the partnership:
“The proposal for Sheards to become a Platinum Partner of QuickBooks UK was the shortest we’ve ever experienced and was accepted unanimously; the Sheards brand, ambition, commitment and activation of their initial Quickbooks licences made it an absolute no-brainer for us to work strategically with them.”