Celebrating International Bookkeeping Week 2021

It’s time to #RaiseACup Aotearoa to our phenomenal bookkeeping group! 

International Bookkeeping Week is a really particular week for the group at Xero. As lots of of bookkeepers from all over the world come collectively to have fun universally, this week offers us a chance to recognise the far too typically unsung heroes behind New Zealand’s small companies.

As I replicate on the previous 12 months since our final International Bookkeeping Week, I discover myself in awe of the best way our much-loved bookies have acted as a primary line of help for his or her purchasers, each financially and emotionally. 

On the chilly face of this pandemic, our bookkeepers have stored lots of of companies going by making use of for presidency subsidies, fastidiously planning money circulate forecasts, and speaking with suppliers and tax authorities to rearrange cost plans.

And but by means of the difficult occasions, we’ve got additionally seen unbelievable quantities of unity and compassion as our bookies not solely rallied round their purchasers, but in addition rallied round one another.

United to help one another

Our Xero NZ bookkeepers Fb group has had quite a few threads discussing the principles round subsidies, resurgence funds and deadlines. Usually these threads are after hours with bookkeepers nonetheless attempting to nut out the newest quick paced guidelines and rules. We’ve got been so comfortable and grateful to see our bookkeeping group unite collectively to help one another with info, brainstorming and related assets. 

I’ve additionally spoken with many bookkeepers who’re merely a voice of motive and friendship over the telephone, zoom or e mail, supporting their purchasers in any means they’ll all whereas working their very own enterprise and supporting their households in difficult occasions.

#RaiseACup

We have fun International Bookkeeping Week every year with enjoyable images, training and group, and this yr is simply as particular.

This week, we’re freely giving a prize to at least one fortunate bookkeeper! We’d love so that you can share a photograph in our Fb group that exhibits what bookkeeping means to you. Perhaps you have got a photograph from whenever you first began out, reached a milestone in your corporation, a previous #RaiseACup selfie, or from certainly one of our Xero occasions. 

We’ve got a pair of Apple AirPods that we’ll divulge to one fortunate winner chosen at random from the images posted. Competitors is open till 5:00pm NZT on Thursday 11 November 2021. Full phrases obtainable right here.