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The world’s first true paper tablet

citmsweb on May 19, 2023

Interesting new product to the hit the market “reMarkable” for reading, writing and sketching. For people who prefer the experience of handwriting on paper, this product can help you do it digitally without any social media, instant messages or email to distract you). Costs around 500 euro. https://remarkable.com

Just as an FYI, the Tax Office take a great interest in companies’ filing habits – poor systems suggest poorly prepared tax returns. Great care and filing suggest good tax citizens. No one likes to annoy the Tax Office.

Best practices for filing

citmsweb on May 19, 2023

The other day I was given an SOS by one of my clients – they had got their filing and document storage into a BIG pickle! So I considered that the tips I gave them and the systems we set up together may be useful for your businesses.

Whilst there’s no perfect answer to the question ‘what’s the best way to file?’, there are some basic guidelines we recommend.

Just as an FYI, the Tax Office take a great interest in companies’ filing habits – poor systems suggest poorly prepared tax returns. Great care and filing suggest good tax citizens. No one likes to annoy the Tax Office.

How to set up your files

We’ll use a Mac this time to walk through how to set up your filing system but the method is the same for both Windows and Mac PCs.
Step 1 Firstly, pick between 5 and 10 folder titles (depending on how in depth your filing needs to be) that will broadly cover all possible aspects of your work, business or whatever it is you are trying to organise – you might need to take a step back to get a birds-eye view of your data so that the categories you decide upon will cover absolutely everything. These titles will become the top level folders of your filing system. We suggest writing them all in upper case for greater clarity. Here’s an example

Note, each folder encompasses one key aspect of the business called ‘ABC Widgets’.

Step 2

Once these are all in place, add your subfolders (using capital letters again) to further break down your top level folders.

Here are two more examples

See above that ACCOUNTS is broken up into the subfolders BUDGET, CASHFLOW, INVOICES, PURCHASE ORDERS and TAX. Anything that relates to any aspect of ACCOUNTS can be filed in one of these sub-folders.

MARKETING here is broken up into the subfolders ADWORDS, EMAIL, FACEBOOK, LINKEDIN and TWITTER.

Step 3

For some, the primary folders and subfolders will suffice for your requirements, but if you need to break down the way you organise things further, you can always add deeper subfolders as required… and/or they can be added at a later date also.

Real life example

One of my clients who is very accomplished in business operations and logistics understands the key to their success is through an extremely well organised company filing system where everything is accounted for, nothing is left out, and anyone can find whatever it is they need with relative ease.

On a practical level, what it meant for them was when they were audited by their professional industry body for an international accreditation, they were able to pass with flying colours because their documentation was all in the one place.. now that’s how a great filing system should be.

Great record keeping is essential for any successful business. If you require further help with your filing, or need to review the way you organise your data, then please get in touch.

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