With the help of IRIS, sole
practitioner Brian Kelsey has found the perfect mix of work and
leisure.
He started his accountancy practice, Brian Kelsey
& Co, nine years ago after he was made redundant from his
position as a senior company executive. Serving 250 clients,
including a plc and a range of small and medium-sized companies, he
runs his thriving practice from home helped only by his wife.
Because of the degree of automation that IRIS offers, he is
able to work part-time 'with plenty of opportunites for holidays
and other relaxation'.
Mr Kelsey particularly likes IRIS because all the different
elements are integrated around a central database. He says "IRIS is
marvelous for switching between Accounts Production, Business Tax
and Personal Tax. In less than a day I can do all the accounts,
corporation tax and the directors' personal tax returns for a whole
company."
"Then I use AutoMail to produce my standard letters to the
Inland Revenue, to clients and so on. The whole thing is done
automatically – it's just marvellous."
So he says "I am puzzled when I hear other
practitioners complaining of struggling with tight deadlines and
then keying in the same information that they have used for a
company's accounts into separate personal taxation software. It
seems crazy when they could use IRIS and have a central database
where you only have to enter data once. IRIS is the best investment
I ever made."
