hello everyone, i just found this site and it has already been a massive help to my freelancing career. :happy but i wanted to ask if anyone here knows a good way to keep track of your income and outgoings on a computer? i'm a freelance illustrator and although pretty handy on photoshop / illustrator etc i'm at a complete loss with financial software such as excel. as it stands i have everything written down in a book which i hand over to my accountant along with receipts etc, but as my career progresses things are getting much more complicated. i'd love to know a way to input all of this data into a simple program whereby i can easily see what payments have been made, totals, plus more importantly who still owes me. can anyone help? thanks!
Book keeping Morning, At work I use SAGE accounting which is really good or another one is Microsoft Money (a lot cheaper than SAGE) you can download a free trial with Microsoft Money to see if it suits you. Good luck
Hi, my accountant set up a simple Excel sheet for me which is a pretty easy way to do it and all you really need to keep track of everything. It works out all the sums for you as well. Book keeping is the one of the down sides of freelancing but as long as you keep on top of it in the simplest way it should be OK.
Download a copy from here: Downloads - Accountants UK - SJD Accountancy Should be fine for your purposes.
Bookkeeping Excel is great if you use a basic template, which you could get set up easily by your accountant, or by a freelance accountant. A free accounting software which is quite good is MS Accounting, you can download it for free. Ingrid
