Information Technology
We make extensive use of Information Technology in all aspects of our business, to enable us to enhance our services and efficiency.
Partner Kevin Salter was appointed to the committee of the Information Technology Faculty of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales in June 1997 and is IT Director of 2020 Innovation Group Limited, a network of over 1500 accounting firms in the UK. He was appointed a software evaluator for the ICAEW Accredited Products Scheme in 2005.
We are an accredited Sage Solution Centre, QuickBooks Adviser and TAS Partner in Practice. We provide training, support and installation on these and indeed other accounting products and general software. Our training solutions include telephone support, remote access or on-site assistance and our own produced help sheets.
Services to the Accountancy Profession
Our IT company, BBS Computing Ltd supplies specialist software and consultancy to other accountancy practices around the country, with clients around the world.
Our "Tax Tips and Tools" product is used by over 1250 firms of accountants around the UK, and was voted "Best Tax Software" in the national LexisNexis Tax Awards 2005, and short listed on two other occasions.
Further details of some of the software listed below (and others) can be found at the BBS web site.
Software in our Practice
- Digita Personal and Business Tax - personal tax return preparation and compliance, including filing using electronic filing
- Digita Company Secretarial and Digita Corporation Tax - company secretarial and corporation tax software
- Digita AccountsPro - accounts production and processing
- TASPAY and STAR - bureau and internal payroll
- TAS BOOKS - SAGE, Online 50, QuickBooks, Liberty Accounts - bureau accounting services and internal records
- Sage WinForecast - budgeting and cash flow forecasting
- Fixed Asset Register - tracking fixed assets and depreciation
- Business Analyst - business consultancy services
- BWW Business Work Ware - document management and knowledge retrieval