Thursday 28 August 2014

The Online Journal Diary Merits

By Marlene Blevins


A journal in accounting is the book where business transaction entries are first made as they occur. With latest developments in e-commerce, online journal diary has emerged to tap the new businesses based on the internet. There are several advantages of online journals which are discussed below.

All activities happening on the web-based business are tracked in the journals be it a transaction or just an account update. The journal is updated each time a client login to their account. Online entries are updated automatically after creation of new transaction, modification of a transaction or a delete is made either by the client or third party. Errors which are common in the manual journals do not happen in the web-based entries because they are updated by machine as they happen in real time

Moist online journals are designed in such a way as to enable automation of events. When a client purchases anything from the web-based business, the journal automatically bills the customer. This makes the work of those responsible for such tasks as billing clients as it reduces their workload. This creates more time for other more important tasks. It also ensures accuracy as it avoids chances of errors common with human beings.

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.

The locations of your clients will be saved on the web-based journal when they access your business. This is information you can't get when you are using offline journals since you can't be asking clients where they come from. Having this information you can know which goods are needed more from which area. This can make you start marketing campaigns on that area on those products which will see your clientele grow meaning more sales and ultimately growth in profits.

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

The list of advantages of online journal entries does not end there. Due to automation of these entry recordings, operational costs of running the business will be lowered. You only need one administrator to be managing the journal.




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