International Journal of Research in Finance and Marketing
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 6

Outsourcing Accounting function: A global Strategy for Competitive Advantage

  • Author:
  • Mahesh U. Daru
  • Total Page Count: 7
  • Page Number: 12 to 18

Head of, Accountancy Department, Smt C.D.J Rofel Arts & Smt I.S.R.A Rofel Commerce College, Vapi, Gujarat

Online published on 29 March, 2017.

Abstract

Quality and timely completion of work is the hall mark of our services. Ongoing pressures to optimize business performance have prompted many finance executives to look for new approaches, including outsourcing of the finance & accounting organization.. Firms and Small Businesses are discovering that outsourcing bookkeeping and accounting saves payroll, overhead cost and it's a giant step in freeing up valuable time. As a business owner your time is best spent doing what you do well-working with customers. Time spent on bookkeeping problems add little or no value to your customer relationship. Accounting functions play an important role in businesses to maintain competitive advantages. However, many companies are facing the problem in handling their accounting functions. This is due to the lack of expertise as accounting functions do not only require knowledge of generally-accepted accounting rules or the tax regulation, but also require that one knows how to apply the rules in a given business environment (Everaert et al., 2006). It's a win-win situation for your business as well as the company we are outsourcing to. This paper is related with accounting outsource and its related aspects.

Keywords

Accounting Function Outsourcing, Subcontracting, Management accounting outsourcing