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Piles of receipts in a shoebox, not knowing how much profit (or worse, loss) you
are making and every quarter the nightmare of doing your VAT return. Does this
sound familiar? It does to Quentin Pain (pictured), the founder and Chairman of
Accountz, producers of award winning software.
In 1981 Quentin and his wife, Lynne, ran a successful courier bank to pay off our credit card. The only really amazing thing
business and had these exact issues. Being interested in is that no one had thought of doing this before, but this is true
computers and technology Quentin looked into all the options of all great ideas. Once you have seen them, if they are truly
to computerise the accounts system and soon discovered the simple, they seem so obvious.”
offerings to be complicated to use, slow to set up and expensive Accountz have also addressed how quickly users can
- both to buy and in terms of on-going costs. generate invoices, manage VAT and access company and
This experience lead Quentin to start Apricote Systems, customer data. Business users want a fast, accurate solution to
which became the leaders in accountancy software on the Acorm manage their business finances so doing the accounts doesn’t
computer platform and in 1999, Accountz, whose award winning take up any longer than necessary, which leaves more time to
products are known for their true ease of use and value for focus on running the business.
money. Accountz scores highly in this area thanks to Rapid Data
Quentin says “Accountz software is entirely different Entry and the attention to how many ‘clicks’ are needed to
to everything else on the market. We have abandoned the carry out each function. ‘Typically complicated tasks such as
old principles and naming conventions in favour of those that VAT returns astonish people when they see all it takes is one
ordinary people can understand. Typical accountancy terms click’ says Quentin who has researched the effect this has on
like credit and debit are replaced with from and to. This makes the speed of completing company accounts and discovered a
so much more sense in our modern world. We write from left time saving of around 2 hours per week for the average small
to right, we travel from home to work, money comes from our business.
Whether you are already running your own
business, or thinking of starting, Accountz are
happy to show how their products will help you
keep control of your business finances.
Come along and meet Quentin
and the team on stand 320.
Quentin will also be
speaking at the
show seminars.
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