John Pointon said:
"Moonface" <moonface@donotreply.com> wrote in message
It is difficult to see how such outsourcing can work.
I was approached recently by a firm based in India telling me they
could do UK VAT returns and quarterly and year end accounts. However,
a quick examination of their website revealed it to be entirely "Under
Construction"!
From a hypothetical point of view, in laymens terms, would it not be
necessary to physically sort all the invoicesout in person, go through them
*in person*, file them and then put each amount into a box or enter it into
a keyboard......and by the sheer necessity of all those required *physical
actions* that accounts for almost 90% of the job done anyway? As one would
need to enter the data anyway in order to send it to India, so therefore is
not therefore not very worthwhile to do this?
I find it impossible to comprehend how a firm based several hundred
miles away can have the same knowledge as to how a client's business
operates on a daily basis and the quirks and pecularities of those
involved in it. Such knowlegde can only be obtained over many months,
if not years, in a professional relationship with a trustworthy and
reliable accountant.
But then I may be just an old-fashioned dinosaur about to find out why
he will become extinct!
Hmm I am not sure about that, I like to look at things from an objective
view point, and I can't see how you could do that. Besides which if it where
possible, and feasable, don't you think it would already have been done by
now? The internet has been around in a good usable form for 20 odd years,
and I think it would have happened if it was feasable.
I think those points you made are even in addition to the points I made. So
perhaps we can assume that the evidence points to "accountancy based work"
not being shipped off to third world countries, so much.
Athough probably a certain amount of "data processing" is being done in that
way...