Getting unpaid help

FOR MANY WORKING in industry the working year consists of somewhere between two and 12 segments depending on the frequency of financial reporting. Smaller companies while not reporting externally as often as larger companies are likely to have regular internal reporting requirements which can take up a similar amount of time. For large corporates reporting externally on a quarterly basis and internally on a monthly cycle is likely to be a typical cycle and the gap between sets of figures can be very short. If forgotten passwords unavailable systems and crashing computers are added to the equation it can seem as if the technology only adds to the workload.
That same technology can be put to work for the tax practitioner saving time during the busy reporting periods and costing nothing more. You can effectively get in unpaid help when...