Dec 14, 2010

MYOB Accounting software is easy to use. Even 12 year olds can use MYOB

Yes, even 12 year olds can use MYOB Accounting software.

Today I visited one of my clients who are into the 10th month of using MYOB software in their business.

I saw 4 young girls (age ranging from 12 years to 15 years) in the office.  The young girls are temping at the office, under the watchful eyes of their respective mums, earning some pocket money during the school holidays.

What amazes me is that the girls are so adept at using MYOB software.    One girl confidently called out the supplier's phone number in the CardFile and was soon on the phone informing the suppliers that their cheque payments are ready for collection.  Another girl was on the purchase order screen raising a purchase order.

I think it is a good idea to involve young girls and boys in the office during the school holidays. The business owner is very open minded - the children are not theirs; it's their staff's children.

This client first started with MYOB Premier 3 user licences, and soon increase to the current 9 users licences within 10 months.  Business has been good.

What did the client do right?
They are in the engineering business.  They purchase parts from foreign suppliers and assemble them into a complete machine.  The owner runs a weekly report of the material costs incurred (ordered and received) for each project.  We use Job Codes to track the project profitability, and Time Billing to track the unbilled amounts for work in progress.

Since they have 9 users, we introduced a Thin Client solution that allows all 9 users to access the datafile without any loss of speed.

They also use MYOB software to print the 100-odd cheques per month, which previously took them days to write, but now takes about 2 hours to complete the entire payment process.