In my early twenties I lived with my super organised sister. I was studying at the time and my files and notes were spread around the house in nothing short of chaos (actually my Dad, an RAF pilot, referred to my mess as the aftermath of an aircraft accident). Sarah ‘advised’ me to get organised. I ignored her for the better part of two years until I was coming up to my final accountancy exams and, desperate to improve my grades, I was happy to try anything. So I got organised and hey how (blow trumpet here) topped my class. Getting organised works.

Being organised still doesn’t come naturally to me so I’m always on the look out for tools to help me. To that end I’ve been experimenting for a couple of months with something to help me keep my financial paperwork in order: Bookzkeeper.

Bookzkeeper is pitched as ‘The accounting survival kit for small business’. Now there’s lots of stuff that makes grandiose claims like this so, to be honest, I started out a little sceptical. But I needn’t have been - it’s a great product. It’s easy to use, assumes you know next to nothing about accounting and complements MYOB and Quickboks (which isn’t me, I’m a SAASU girl, but that didn’t seem to matter).

Now of course I am a qualified accountant (Chartered, if you will, both in England and Australia) but I don’t practice as an accountant, and in terms of organising stuff, well I need as much help as the next guy (or should that be chick?) So hats off to Alycia Edgar - the brains behind Boozkeeper - for a great product.