Establishing KPA/KPI or Performance Metric For Outsourcing The Accounting Function (Part 3)

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It’s crucial to maintain certain performance metric so that the company can measure the efficiency of  the accounting and bookkeeping services provided by the outsourced providers.

The key performance metric can be demarcated into the different areas if the functions are being outsourced:

 

 Transactions Processing:
                                       
· Average cost per transaction

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Establishing Control Points When Outsourcing The Accounting Function (Part 2)

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When a company outsourced its bookkeeping and accounting function to an external outsourced provider, the management need to understand how to institute controls to check on them.

Therefore, the Finance Coordinator who is in charge of the outsourcing needs to institute certain minimum control points.

Some of the control points on accounting and bookkeeping external outsourced provider are as follows:

·  Timeframe on the audit of the bookkeeping and accounting service provider- twice or at least once a year,
·  Company needs to compare billings from the bookkeeping and accounting service provider against the budget,
·  Similarly the company also needs to compare billings from the service provider against the original contract,
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What are the Reasons,Risks and Opportunities when Outsourcing The Accounting Function of a company ( Part 1)

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In my earlier article, I mentioned about some dinosaur functions in the Accounting & Bookkeeping function. I further elaborated on share service centre and  outsourcing which can take away the livelihood of the accounting staff. This is because in a  big group of companies,  the Group CFO is [...]

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