For keep track of your accounts and help you managing your business,How do you choose between a chartered accountant near youor work with a service provider who manages everything remotely ? Does my accountant have to be based near me?
Your choice will be all the more difficult as your Google searches will suggest service providers located all over France.
In the age of the Internet, what advice can we offer to help you make your choice?
Identify the professional who will support you in your development is strategic. Your entrepreneur friends can refer you to their accountant. But more often than not, you start by doing some research on the Internet.
There are two possible scenarios:
1/ Google will show you which firms have paid to be in first position. Very often, the referenced firms are «pure players» who work solely via the Internet.
They use remote dematerialisation software and artificial intelligence. The business model is get you involved by feeding the software. For example, you assign cash movements that are not automatically recognised (such as restaurants, purchases of supplies, etc.). You also attach a scan of the supporting invoice.
It's an interesting way of working, if you're willing to invest the time. It's time-consuming, because you enter a lot of the information yourself. Remember that your time can be used to develop your sales. Will you pay less in return? It's a tempting promise.
2/ As a second choice, Google will suggest practices in your town, generally close to your business. It's the most reassuring, you have a physical place to come to for meet the team and the chartered accountant. However, proximity is not a sign of availability your accountant and his staff. I met a prospective client who lived in the same building as his accountant. Yet he criticised the accountant for never seeing him. Unfortunately, this is a recurrent criticism from clients.
As far as organisation is concerned, you generally bring your accounting documents with you and the firm does the data entry. The disadvantage is that you no longer have your documents with you.
On the other hand, the advantage is that the chartered accountant knows the’The economy of its geographical area, It also provides information on specific tax schemes that can be used (for example in overseas departments or urban tax-free zones). It also has a network banker, insurer and lawyer in the sector in which you work.
Our solution so that your chartered accountant is close to you
Is there a third way open to you? I'm thinking of a a chartered accountant and his team of flesh-and-blood advisers who are quickly accessible which combines the advantages of the first 2 solutions. The firm uses dematerialisation so that you can send it the accounting documents. This is an advantage for you, because the firm is more responsive to your needs.
You can consult your documents remotely. Some offer access to your accounts. Others allow you to enter information about your banking transactions. Everything is possible and nothing is imposed. It all depends on how much you want to invest in your bookkeeping and how much time you are willing to devote to it.
Personally, I have chosen this solution for the development of my practice. We give a strong emphasis on human contact. Working by email is fast and comfortable. But the physical contact by telephone or videoconference est indispensable pour la bonne compréhension de chacun. Nous avons les outils pour organiser un rendez-vous en visioconférence sans délai. D’ailleurs, nous travaillons déjà avec des clients en France entière comme si nous étions dans la même ville.
Nous disposons des sources d’informations qui nous renseignent des exonérations possibles pour nos clients lorsqu’ils sont dans une zone spécifique. Nous pouvons également travailler avec des clients situés dans les DOM (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyanes, La Réunion).
À titre d’exemple, pour nos clients parisiens, nous les rencontrons aussi souvent que nos clients marseillais. Il n’existe plus de barrière géographique. Nos clients s’y retrouvent, car avec un budget équivalent, grâce à nos frais de structure comme les loyers qui sont très nettement inférieurs, nous proposons plus de prestations.
Enfin, nous avons un réseau d’experts capable de travailler avec nos clients dans la France entière. Aussi, n’ayez pas de crainte avec votre banquier, car il sera heureux de conserver votre dossier dans son agence plus que de travailler avec tel expert-comptable.
Pour vous aider dans votre choix de prendre un cabinet local ou de passer par un cabinet situé dans une autre ville de France, la responsiveness, the méthodologie de travail, le suivi qui sont proposés seront les seuls véritables critères.
Nous sommes un métier de conseil avec une relation humaine importante, nous parlons de vos finances et bien souvent connaissons votre vie familiale. Par exemple, lorsqu’un client est touché par la maladie, les kilomètres ne nous empêchent pas d’être à ses côtés et de lui apporter ainsi qu’à sa famille si nécessaire, toute l’assistance qu’ils sont en droit d’attendre.
Vous pouvez prendre rendez-vous en ligne avec un expert-comptable dès maintenant.
