16 April 2009
IRIS Accountancy Practice Solutions, the market leading
provider of software and associated services to 14,000 UK
accountancy practices of all sizes and with over 60% of the top 50
firms as clients, today announced that the ISO 9001:2000
accreditation has been renewed for its offshore outsourcing
service, IRIS Resourcing.
ISO 9001 is by far the world’s most established quality
framework, currently being used by over ¾ million organisations in
161 countries, and sets the standard not only for quality
management systems, but management systems in general.
The certification assures customers that all quality management
systems (QMS) are in place and that the customer related processes,
systems administration, project execution and quality assurance
functions meet the highest recognised international quality
standards.
“The high standards achieved by IRIS Resourcing were praised by
the auditor responsible for the continuation of certification and
he added that it was the first time he had seen such quality
processes in a BPO (Business Process Outsourcer),” commented Mark
Ellis, Director of Services, IRIS Accountancy Practice
Solutions.
“Accountants looking to reduce their costs increase their
margins and place greater emphasis on higher value activities in
the current economic climate can be assured of the highest quality,
secure offshore outsourcing service when choosing IRIS
Resourcing.”
Philip Woolfson from Tuchbands Chartered Accountants is one of
the practices already benefiting from outsourcing, he commented,
“We’ve been using IRIS Resourcing for a little over 9 months. We
have found the quality of their work to be of a very high standard.
Once the files have been processed, we have very little more work
to do and we can see the client straight away, with draft accounts
prepared on IRIS, queries and detailed working paper files. IRIS
Resourcing staff are extremely courteous and keep us informed with
regard to deadlines. I would have no hesitation in recommending
outsourcing to other practices.”
Outsourcing is proving a panacea for a growing number of
accountants. Mark continued “More and more firms are outsourcing
the preparation of accounts, tax returns and payroll processing to
meet the challenges of improving service and reducing costs. This
is a great example of how the Internet is accelerating
globalisation and enabling collaboration, independent of
location.”
With an unparalleled wealth of knowledge and experience of the
practice software market and a first class reputation for
delivering the highest standards of software and service, IRIS’
objective is to provide the tools and services to empower
accountancy professionals, optimise operational efficiency and
enable the best chance of competitive advantage.
IRIS Accountancy Practice Solutions is part of IRIS; one of the
fastest growing and now the largest privately owned software and
services business in the UK. It has revenues of c£120m p.a. and
c1,200 employees servicing over 60,000 UK businesses from a
national network of offices