Celebrating our Irish roots and how we support Irish firms

As St. Patrick’s Day is swiftly approaching and parades, music and all-things shamrock (who else is obsessed with McDonald’s mint green Shamrock Shake®?) are just around the corner, we thought it’d be worth celebrating our Irish roots and how we make Irish accountants’ lives easier.

Our Irish roots

Here at Bright, we’re proud to be an Irish-born company, making waves in the accounting industry with hundreds of thousands of businesses and firms using our software. We began 1992 when our founder, Paul Byrne (an Irish accountant) developed Thesaurus Software. Since then, the company has steadily grown, eventually joining with Relate Software (another game-changing Irish company) to become Bright. More recently in 2022, we joined forces with AccountancyManager and BTCSoftware, further emphasising that commitment to providing top-class solutions for businesses and firms across the nation.

How Irish accountants’ lives have become easier throughout the years

In addition to our rich vibrant history, Ireland’s also been at the forefront of innovation. Cloud technology has become pretty much standard in the industry these days – streamlining and automating once laboursome and time-consuming tasks. The cloud proved to be particularly useful during the pandemic too, as team members could access work from anywhere, not just the office. It offered a level of flexibility and efficiency that just wasn’t available before, leading to a whole new work approach for accountants not just in Ireland, but across the entire globe.

We’re on a mission to make a happy and efficient working life a reality for Irish accountants through our reliable software and amazing support. Here are three super snazzy solutions specific to Ireland that we think you’ll love.

Latest updates on legislation

We work hard behind the scenes to provide you with the most up-to-date information on legislative changes related to Revenue. With our recent webinars on Statutory Sick Pay and Automatic Enrolment, we help keep Irish business owners, bookkeepers and accountants in the loop of any payroll legislative changes that are in the pipeline. This helps them stay compliant, while providing tips on how to best prepare.

Give your bank recs a boost

Rather than spending hours running through bank statements and counting your lucky stars if you’re fortunate enough to see a matched end balance, our cloud accounting solution, Surf, connects to your bank account and pulls transactions automatically into the system. We can also generate your bank reconciliation statements in a matter of minutes, letting you blast through reconciliations in no time.

Push through payroll journals

We Irish folk love to chat, and so does our software – but not in the way you think. We’re talking about integrations, which play a vital role in accounting, like our integration between Surf Accounts and BrightPay. It lets firms and businesses alike send their payroll journals to their general ledgers in just seconds, without even having to leave the payroll software – super handy, eh? Not only does this speed up time, but it cuts down on errors and keeps those mischievous leprechaun errors at bay.

Crush your deadlines with the CRO

Does onboarding eat up your team’s time? We hear ya – writing in all of those details and deadlines for each client? No thanks – you’ll need more than luck and a pot of gold to get through that. But luckily, our practice management software’s got you sorted. Our practice management solution, AccountancyManager’s integration with the CRO lets you easily pull in client details from the system and into the software. This means any compliance deadlines, like year-end accounts, are pulled in from the CRO and become the foundation of your task lists. This makes Irish accountants’ workloads a whole lot lighter – and you don’t need to download any clunky software either. Because it’s in the cloud, just pop open your browser, type in your login details, and once you’re connected to WiFi, you’re good to go.

Why Bright is a top choice for Irish accountants

We’re proud to be Irish, and even more proud of the hundreds of thousands of accountants, bookkeepers and businesses across the nation who choose to use our software! Interested in joining the fam? Start your journey today by booking a short demo of our product suite.

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