Back in the day, maintaining an organized expenses spreadsheet meant passing a hard copy printout between employees and hoping for the best. Ink got smudged, receipts got stapled, and if you were lucky, everyone got reimbursed for their expenditures in a somewhat-timely manner (assuming the spreadsheet didn’t get lost).

Flash forward to 2013, when cloud-based accounting software has made it easier than ever to track expenses, generate reports, and create budgets – all without ever having to hit the print button.

The key to creating a flawless expense report is to accurately track your expenses. If you have a solid system in place, generating a report based on those tracked expenses is an absolute breeze. Here are a few of our favorite ways to ensure accurate expense tracking: More »

Paying your bills on time every month is a great way to improve your credit score and avoid expensive late fees. But with car payments, utilities, mortgage or rent and a myriad of other expenses, how are you supposed to keep everything straight?

A bill paying organizer is an online or offline system that helps you keep track of various due dates, payment addresses, account information and balances. Here are a few of our favorites!

Digital

  • Manilla is an online bill paying organizer that helps you manage all of your accounts within a single dashboard. Manilla lets you sync everything from credit cards and loans to utility bills, and delivers all of your statements directly to your secure account. More »

Capturing your e-receipts is a fast, easy, affordable way to eliminate paper clutter from your home or office, amp up your organization, and cut the time it takes to do your taxes in half.

The benefits of capturing receipts via your smartphone or desktop scanner include:

Instant digitization

When you scan your receipts or snap a picture of them using a smartphone app like the one available from Shoeboxed, all of the information on the receipt becomes instantly digitized. This means that you’ll be able to search for purchases and transactions by date, amount, category, and even individual items. Cloud-based applications like Shoeboxed ensure that all of your expense information is available at the touch of a button. More »