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Natasha Whittam wrote:I read this thread and then fell asleep for two hours.

Interesting job you have.

doffcocker wrote:Most of our clients are people that don't know the first thing about accounting and just hand us a mountain of receipts, invoices, written records etc so that we can work out what they owe HMRC.

Others however are people that record all their transactions through Sage, then pass it all over to us to sort out near the end of every period. I have subtly tried asking my boss why it is that they bother paying us to do anything.

This is exactly the scenario that Sage presented to the industry and why their marketing campaign was so successful. (resell Sage, get Clients to do the work, charge the same)

Accountants do earn their corn when handed an ASDA bag full of receipts, but if you ever get an answer from your boss about charging for Sage Clients - let me know - I'd be interested to hear the justification although I suspect i already know the answer.