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Rhianrach


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I have covered cash books whilst doing them for the AAT, and vaguely remember using them around 9 years back whilst helping out an accountant whilst doing some admin work.  9 years back the accountant at the company I worked at did all his work by hand so you had a sales and purchase day book which I remember putting all the invoices in and a cash book for suppliers and customers (all cash there were never any credit customers) and they would go upstairs to the accountant to enter into his ledgers. Where I am at the moment we do everything computerised so we don't have any books. So the question is should we be recording things manually aswell as on sage or is it really unnecessary?

The place I'm going for an interview at need you to be able to do both and I was just wondering why.

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Personally I wouldn't do both a manual and computerised unless the company had just switched and was running side by side just in case.

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Hi steve,

Yes all bookkeeping now would be done on sage ( in most places) i have never heared of a entity using two methods ( manual and compterised.) Possibly the reason why you need to do both is that they are looking for someone with manual knowledge of bookkeeping so they can easily apply it to the computerised system?? Where i work their was people who had the software knowledge of bookkeeping ( sage line 50 ) but didnt have the FIRM manual knowledge to build from. So it was alot harder for them to solve issues.

My my opinion background knowledge is alway great to build off... its just not possible to run before you walk.

hope interview goes great, what role is it for?

James

p.s hope that helps

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semsley wrote:

Personally I wouldn't do both a manual and computerised unless the company had just switched and was running side by side just in case.


It's well established so I can't see why either, sure I'll find out smile

 



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jamesb wrote:

Hi steve,

Yes all bookkeeping now would be done on sage ( in most places) i have never heared of a entity using two methods ( manual and compterised.) Possibly the reason why you need to do both is that they are looking for someone with manual knowledge of bookkeeping so they can easily apply it to the computerised system?? Where i work their was people who had the software knowledge of bookkeeping ( sage line 50 ) but didnt have the FIRM manual knowledge to build from. So it was alot harder for them to solve issues.

My my opinion background knowledge is alway great to build off... its just not possible to run before you walk.

hope interview goes great, what role is it for?

James

p.s hope that helps


Could be that they are after both abilities like you say just for the purpose of knowledge and the ability to work through errors.

The rol eis bookkeeper/accounts asst so a perfect starting point smile

 



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