Every new year, I seem to pick a handful of resolutions and, by February, I’ve already forgotten them!

Here’s a resolution that can pay off more than just choosing not to eat the french fries at lunch (I broke that one already): Companies around the world are using the cloud to save and share data, in order to grow their business and ease the burdens of everyday tasks, such as bookkeeping and taxes.

Here are my five reasons why you need to do bookkeeping in the cloud starting this year:

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