CPA Business Advisors assesment of using Xero accounting for their small business clients | TrustRadius

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Xero accounting is an easy solution for many of our small business clients who have limited time and financial resources. It also provides us a CPA advisory firm real-time access to our clients accounting.

Pros and Cons

The bank feeds function is a quick and efficient means to update client's accounting records.
Our small business clients don't have to have a lot of accounting expertise to use Xero because the data entry choices are very straight-forward and easy to understand

There should be an option to add new accounts on the fly when trying to enter transactions from the bank feeds

Return on Investment

Better customer service
Much faster leads times

Alternatives Considered

QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions

Much less start-up cost for the small business user

Likelihood to Renew

7

Lower start-up entry costs & better customer service to our small business clients that use Xero

Likelihood to Recommend

Xero is good fit for small closely held businesses, but lacks the internal controls that a large organization requires