Liquid Accounts Champions Women in Business

Lisa Kendrick, Director of Marketing and Customer Service for Liquid Accounts Ltd has been chosen as a Women's Enterprise Ambassador for Yorkshire and Humberside. The scheme is part of a Government initiative to encourage more women to set up their own businesses. One thousand ambassadors are being recruited nationwide, with one hundred in Yorkshire and Humberside under the umbrella of Forward Ladies, Yorkshire Forward’s networking group for women in business.

“I am delighted to have been chosen for this scheme and am very excited about the opportunities that may come with it. Setting up Liquid Accounts has been a rollercoaster, an adventure, and an education for me, but the confidence and sense of achievement I’ve gained from it have been liberating and have made it all worthwhile. I am very happy to share my experiences with other women who may want to take the same journey.”

Lisa started her working life as a broadcast journalist working as a researcher for the BBC. She later became a TV Producer/Director and in 1997 left the BBC to become freelance and move home to Yorkshire. In 2003, she left the TV industry to have a baby, and in early 2005 was asked by co-directors Matthew Holmes and Jon Wright to help them set up Liquid Accounts, offering online accounting software designed make business bookkeeping easier to do.

Matthew Holmes said, “We felt that we had this fantastic product – an online accounting application, but we needed to be able to tell people about it. Lisa’s great at taking my technology-jargon, and Jon’s accountancy-speak and turning it into everyday language that people can understand. We couldn’t have done it without her!”

Lisa has already started sharing her experiences and inspiring other women who are starting out in business. She recently ran a course for Women In Rural Enterprise at Askham Bryan College in York which gave them a positive spin on their business bookkeeping and empowered them to take control of their finances and run their businesses more efficiently. “When I was self-employed I left all my bookkeeping until the last minute because I didn’t know what I was doing, and was terrified of getting it wrong. As far as I was concerned I was just doing it for the Inland Revenue and not for me! I’ve found that many women feel exactly the same. I feel very strongly that accountancy has a mystique surrounding it and that the language is a major barrier for people. With the Liquid Accounts software, I’ve worked really hard to change this and make it more accessible and easy to understand. ”

Lisa will be running similar courses in the near future for Forward Ladies and other women’s groups.

For further information, contact info@liquidaccounts.net, www.liquidaccounts.net

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