“I can easily generate a report of comparison between budget and actuals. Traditionally, that would have taken a fair bit of time for accountants to do, which is obviously more costly for our farmers. I can now produce a report that is really meaningful to them, without a huge demand on our time."
“These tools are changing the way that we do business. They allow us to work much more closely with our farming clients to help them make more meaningful decisions and improve their bottom line and we find that very rewarding.”
“Timely access to data is so important. The financial data we were looking at was based on historical information which wasn’t relevant for management decisions. Now, we can pull up reports straight away and it gives us the opportunity to have forward-looking conversations based on the information that is in front of us."
"If you weren’t using this software [Figured], you really wouldn’t understand what was going on in their [the farmers] business and it would be very hard to then give them advice and ideas.”
"What we anticipate in the future is more and more farms taking up this technology and more accounting firms supporting their farmers in ways better than just providing tax returns, but actually providing some analysis into their businesses direction."