Sleep easy with Xero
Robin Fargher, Kakapo Technologies Director, says Xero allows him to sleep at night knowing if anything happens to him, his vital financial information will not be at risk.
Kakapo specialises in consultancy services for the development of systems and has expertise in project management, requirements gathering, design and construction.
Assessing risk is a key part of Robin’s work. Now as a Xero user, Robin no longer worries about the security of his books.
Kakapo has six directors, two employees and two sub-contractors. Robin – like many small business directors – has been the only person within the company looking after the books.
"Xero has alleviated the pressure from me. Because I was the only one that did the books we suffered from key person risk as well as data security risk.”
Key person risk is when a key person’s knowledge base is no longer available to the organisation.
"Xero has alleviated the pressure from me. Because I was the only one that did the books we suffered from key person risk as well as data security risk."
Robin Fargher, Director, Kakapo Technologies
"If I get hit by a bus tomorrow the business will be fine – the accounts are available to every one of the directors. And because our data is not just living on my hard drive the accountant can carry out an audit without me.”
"Previously I did spreadsheet accounting which was a bit messy – I used to spend a whole day every two months doing the books, – which because of the time spent doing it resulted in a loss of revenue for Kakapo.”
"Now it’s just five minutes a day."
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