(formerly Integromat) allows accountants to move data between applications in a completely customized way.The app allows accountants to add in items such as management reports and tracking of job timelines. Keeperfor QuickBooks Online helps accountants organize their bookkeeping process with checklists, client portals and KPI reports.When identifying tools for his practice, Chad Davis, co-founder of LiveCA LLP and co-host of the Automation Town podcast says, “It’s important to understand what alternatives exist so that you can more effectively decide how they impact you.”įollowing are some useful apps that experts say are helping to transform bookkeeping functions: “The value proposition changed businesses completely,” he says.

NEW TOOLS OF THE TRADEīookkeeping was one of the first areas of practice to be automated, says Marc André Paquette, CPA, principal, corporate oversight and governance for CPA Canada. Here is a look at some of the more popular bookkeeping apps on the market, as well as some considerations to keep in mind when making your choices.

The integration between everything is getting better and better.” “The recognition of the benefits has led to a much bigger app ecosystem. “Over the past six years, accounting platforms have become very well developed and more accepted by the accounting industry and their clients,” says Obed Maurice, CPA, partner, Avail CPA, a virtual accounting firm in Lethbridge, Alta. Over the past few years, accounting platforms have become very well developed and more accepted by the accounting industry (Getty Images/Adene Sanchez)įrom speeding up time-consuming bookkeeping to helping clients automate their debtor tracking, there is a growing number of fintech solutions available to streamline clients’ (and your own) bookkeeping, tax prep and other business practices.

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