January is a great time to give your accounts and admin a good shake up – with many businesses having a December year end, this is the time to review the accounts function as you close out your year end. Flaws and inadequacies become more apparent when completing the accounts. Perhaps as a business owner you are doing the books yourself, or this is just part of the admin function and has evolved over time. In either case, the accounts are probably taking up too much time, are not being done efficiently or effectively and you’re certainly not getting any information. As businesses expand and mature, they outgrow initial systems put in place and need a more professional appraisal of their accounts / finance function. If you have concerns about this aspect of your business, now is the perfect time to contact a professional service. #cowhiemanagementservices #yearendaccounts #accounts

This December marks 22 years of my husband Paul and me being in business together! I was looking at the calendar and remembered in December 1998, we took that brave decision after only 4 months of marriage to work together. 22 years later, we are still married and still in business together! What an incredible journey it has been.  Paul a qualified management accountant, saw a gap in the market for quality, accurate & timely book-keeping, and informative management accounts for small and medium businesses. So he started his management accounting practice, Cowhie Management Services, back in 1995. In those days, outsourcing your book-keeping / payroll and management accounts were unheard of. I’m an FCCA, I qualified in Practice and also spent two years in the Financial services sector. Our combined but different experience and qualifications really complemented each other and worked so well for the business and our marriage! Paul often jokes that the best business decision he ever made was to marry an accountant!