InterAcc Online

06/11/2023

17/02/2023

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16/02/2023

A fixed asset register and the management thereof have long been a headache for the accounting departments of many businesses. According to South African Company Law, businesses are required to maintain a full register of fixed assets which records vital information such as date of purchase; date of disposal; purchase price; accumulated depreciation; net book value etc. Thankfully the talented team at Sage Evolution has developed a very effective application called Sage Evolution Fixed Assets module, which should take the guess - and leg - work out of fixed assets, while allowing companies to reap any tax benefit which may apply. Here is a quick breakdown of the module and its main features.
https://interacc.co.za/blog/fixed-assets-made-simple

03/05/2022

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25/11/2021

As a company, InterAcc Online typically does not get involved with "political" issues, but this is too important & time-sensitive to try and be "politically correct".

We Object to Shell and CGG Seismic Surveys on RSA Coast!

28/01/2021

InterAcc wish to express our empathy with Sage Business Cloud (Sage One) users. Rest assured, if there was anything at all we (as InterAcc) could do to resolve this matter, we would. The last time we were able to successfully log in to Sage Business Cloud was about noon yesterday. We have not had an update from Sage about this in our capacity as resellers. Sage issued a statement 3 days ago that they would only post updates on Sage City (their 'Facebook' for Sage users) ... please sign up there to see the latest ... https://www.sagecity.com/login

01/12/2020

The inimitable Winston Churchill once said that ‘...if you fail to plan, you are planning to fail...’. For some of us flying by the seat of our pants works, at least in our private lives. However, this is seldom true in business. That is, after all, why any bank or venture capitalist will insist on the presentation of a careful, detailed business plan before they will consider a request for business finance.
And sometimes, when you have been in business for a few years, you need to revisit your original plan and see if it is still valid. Have you met your milestones? If you have not, do some soul-searching to be sure why not: Did the plan fail or did you just fail to fully implement the plan? Can you improve productivity or profitability by going back to the plan, or do you need to completely re-design?
Long before we get to the mechanics of how you will do business, the simplest but perhaps most important bit of planning revolves around your vision & mission statements. These help to crystalize your thoughts about why you think you should be in business and what (and how) it is you expect that your business will be doing.
No matter how long you have been in operation; if you do not have a clear, formally documented vision & mission, there is value in going through the exercise now.
Here is a useful document to help with this planning.
https://1drv.ms/b/s!Ak2RLvk7O26ypRbH_fSXsZV4bR8F?e=gTgOTz Click here to download the worksheet. If the download won’t work, drop us a mail at [email protected] & we will forward it to you.
As always, we aim to help entrepreneurs thrive.

30/11/2020

It is indisputable that 2020 has changed the face of business dramatically and quite possibly forever. Based on figures out of the US, where online retailers reported growth in Black Friday sales last week in excess of 20% over the previous year, it is clear that any business which can move part or all of its sales online has a better chance of riding out the current economic challenges than those who do not.
The question is no longer simply whether you have a website. In the past many companies have been happy for their website to be little more than a glorified business listing, but this is just not good enough anymore. The world and our needs have changed.Your website needs to take orders. It needs to engage with lukewarm prospects and turn them into white-hot leads. It needs to make a definitive contribution to your customer service culture and process.
Let’s assume you know all of this. Let’s further assume you invested a significant amount of money in achieving just that. But somehow the ‘build it and they will come’ mantra has not worked. Your web developer tells you, you have the Rolls Royce of websites, but you have not seen any real benefit…what now?
Having been in that situation, I would urge any and all owners of websites (even those who are perfectly up to date with all the technical aspects of what makes a website effective) to do an independent website audit. There are many options for website audits in the marketplace. Some free, some paid. Many of them are just so-so for effectiveness, especially if they are free, but there are a couple of really, really good ones.
My recommendation is for Neil Patel’s “Ubersuggest”.
https://neilpatel.com/ubersuggest/
I promise you: I get nothing if you use this product, I am basing this recommendation only on how impressed I have been when I have used it myself. There is a free portion, but the really valuable audit is available for $120 for a lifetime subscription and once you have run the audit once, Ubersuggest will periodically test your site again and make recommendations on how to improve your traffic.
Only when you have this information, can you meaningfully engage with your web developer to ensure the website you have delivers the results you need. Trust me, you will thank me later.
As always, we aim to deliver value beyond simple website design.
https://neilpatel.com/ubersuggest/

22/11/2020

Although I can hardly remember when last I wrote or received a cheque :-), this information may still be relevant to some people:

20/07/2020

2020 has been interesting, to put it mildly. After a generally high level of optimism at the beginning of the year - as evidenced by the proliferation of posts on social media - the wheels pretty much came off when news of the pandemic started filtering first out of China and then out of Europe.

Very, very few of us have been able to continue ‘business as usual’.

While Interacc has been able to keep ticking over, we have had to significantly change the way we serve our customers. This has been good practice for the situation we see developing around us, with Covid-19 hot spots exploding in many parts of the country.

I remain optimistic about our general handling of the pandemic, as our death rate stays well below the global average. However, we cannot ignore that South Africa has gone from reporting really low numbers for months, to a situation this last week where, on a ‘cases per million’-basis our total infections rank us 22nd highest in the world(1).

This information against the backdrop of a national easing of lockdown restrictions is worrying. We all realise we cannot keep the economy in lockdown forever, but if we do not work diligently at curbing the spread of the virus even as we try to keep our businesses afloat and eke out a living as efficiently as we can, we are doomed.

In my own little universe, previously all ‘known cases’ were on an anecdotal basis – a friend of a friend who knew someone who is ill or had passed. Over the past month, the virus has moved closer to home. I now have in-laws who have been ill. Fortunately, I have not had contact with them during this time and they also recovered successfully, but this illustrates that Covid-19 is a problem none of us can afford to ignore.

For this reason, InterAcc will continue to assist customers remotely as much as we possibly can.

Where it is imperative that we assist a client on site, we will observe all recommended protocols and we beg you to do the same:
• Wearing a mask while we are in your office
• Washing or sanitizing hands regularly
• Wiping down keyboards, etc. when we arrive & when we leave
• Avoiding physical contact at all costs

We will decline on-site visits if we display symptoms which have any risk of being ‘Covid-19’-related and we urge you to show us the kindness of not asking for an onsite visit if anyone in your office has such symptoms.

We remain, as always, your Partner in Sage.
(1) – Sourced from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/, 2020-07-19

07/07/2020

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