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The Accounting World Magazine:
The Era of Accounting Outsourcing
 
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Administering the accounts of any business is a crucial function. It needs a lot of care, as simple mistakes can be hazardous. In today's complex business world, a business can achieve the best results only if it follows the rule of optimum utilization of available resources. Here comes the role of accounting outsourcing. It simply means hiring a service-provider, either nationally or internationally, and entrusting the whole or a part of accounting work to it/him. Thus, today, it is an era of accounting outsourcing and many businesses have achieved much due to it. Accounting outsourcing helps a business explore new directions and, thus, become popular everyday. The article tries to find the reasons behind this popularity.


 

As business involves numerous complicated accounting activities which are to be monitored very seriously, it's not easy for the owner to keep track of each and every accounting transaction, especially in large organizations spanning across different countries. Hence, the accounting function, a vital activity, requires expertise in financial knowledge and managerial proficiency to deal with the analysis of complicated figures. Accounting outsourcing thus gives a clear solution for these challenges. The other major reasons being cost saving, time management in concentrating on other core activities and building better customer relationships. Some of the countries which provide accounting outsourcing services are India, China and Malaysia. These countries have skilled manpower that completes task at lower rates as compared to the Western countries. The United Kingdom, Australia and the US are the major countries which outsource their activities to India, a major hub of outsourcing. They rely on us because we provide better quality and services in terms of delivery at comparable rates. The advantage of outsourcing is that it takes away the responsibility of accounting from the clients' shoulders and moves it to the vendors'.

Accounting outsourcing is basically a mechanism where business organizations attempt to outsource their Herculean accounting tasks to hired professionals from a reputed vendor dealing in the business of providing outsourcing services. Today, a major chunk of the corporates opt for outsourced accounting specialists who are highly qualified and equipped with different tools, techniques and latest version of accounting software for the better execution of complicated accounting functions. Some of the Accounting outsourcing services are as follows:

 
 

 

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