Friday, September 5, 2014

Advantages Of Online Journal Diary

By Marlene Blevins


An accounting journal is a book where transactions of any kind are first recorded when they take place before being recorded in the different respective documents. With advancement in technology and the emergence of web-based businesses the concept of online journal diary has emerged. The merits of online journals are as outlined below.

The web-based journals use automated sequences of instructions in such a way that any activity in the website of the online business automatically gets recorded. When a person logs into the website, a record is made, when someone tampers with information or data on the site a record is also made. This works to prevent errors of original entry and to prevent fraudulent activities.

An automatic billing capability which sends out charges to clients when bills are due is the other advantages of web-based journals. The workload associated with offline journals when you are using manpower to go through all entries and send bills each billing period is a forgotten case with this. Invoices are created and automatically send to all clients.

Automatic emailing to group of clients can be enabled. After they are enabled, the group of clients you have created and the memorized reports you create will be run and send on the time schedules you set. In offline journal entries this is a feature you will not enjoy. You will have to send the schedules yourself which sometimes can be delayed by unforeseen natural happens such as emergencies you have to attend to or the normal human nature of error to send them.

It is always good to know where you clients are coming from. The web-based journals can do this for you by recording the location of the client who is buying from you. This can be a way of knowing where to focus marketing campaigns for your products and which products to be specific depending on the number of transactions of a particular product by clients from that location.

The web-based journal gives an opportunity for multiple transactions to be recorded at the same time. With traditional journals, you can only record a transaction at a time. The web-based journal is thus able to save time for the employees of the organisation. This also ensures easier consolidation of the accounts at the end of the accounting period for two reasons. One, the consolidation is only a button click away and secondly because the system can run multiple functions at a time.

The bank transactions are updated immediately as they occur in web-based journals. Unless on very rare occasions when there is technical error on your site, all the bank transactions are entered corrected without any error. With this happening in real time, possibility of hackers getting in your site and destroying all your data is not high because even if they deface your site, all the transactions up to the time they hacked were recorded and back up created

All these advantage show just how online journal entries can be of help to your smooth running of business. It may also help in cutting down operational costs since you don't need many personnel to enter the entries. Care should be taken, however, because clients' information can be accessed by hackers.




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