How can your firm use a Dateq backoffice ? During the last year or so more accounting firms have begun to work online, digitizing paper documents and using remote bookkeepers. Since the methods of working are now commonplace there is no need to reinvent the wheel but use or modify one or other system already in use. Dateq will recruit, train and manage your team and provide l real estate and IT infrastructure. We can do this even if your backoffice consists of just one assistant.
For those uncertain on how to fully use a Dateq remote team please browse through the list below
- Learn from a pioneer, Carolyn Sechler, CPA working online for more than 5 years. Read about her in Business Week.
- Examine how firms like Thomas Lewis & Associates outsource to remote bookkeepers to increase efficiency and profits.
- If you are a legal firm or provide legal support check out this article from The Economic Times.
Professional Firms can
- Increase the productivity of your high cost employees by allowing them to dump all routine and time consuming work like data entry, collating and verification of data to a Dateq assistant. At less than half the cost of a domestic secretary this service will not impact your expenses significantly. And it will release valuable hours for your office staff for relaxation or other work.
- Use a Dateq team as a "force multiplier" to increase per employee revenue. One experienced bookkeeper (with 6 Dateq assistants working under her in the background) can help your firm net $100 per hour per bookkeeper.
- High end services such as accounting and tax preparation for traders and which may yield your firm $175 per hour can be boosted to $600 per hour with offsite professionals helping with accounting and tax research.
The model is to use certified staff at your office and very efficient and well educated assistants at your back office. This is being done by the Big Five Accounting firms with large dedicated outfits in India. In addition to boosting profits a Dateq backoffice can ensure quality not possible with a domestic setup. This is because "getting things right", reconciliation and locating of errors in accounting is very time consuming and hence costly. GE was for the first time able to achieve six sigma quality (less than one error in a million) after centralizing their global accounting at their India center. Apart from the flexibility that comes from lower hourly costs there is an interesting observation made by NYT's Thomas Friedman on why an India Center tend to improve quality of services. Read on for details ....
