Lynda ArtesaniLegal Accountant and Data Migration Specialist at The Proper Trust

Don’t Start Your Law Firm Accounting With a Spreadsheet #legalaccounting #accounting #podcast

24 Mar 2026 · 0 min

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In this brief segment, the speaker advises new law‑firm owners that beginning their accounting with a spreadsheet is a poor long‑term practice. Instead, they should adopt accounting software that can scale as the firm grows, even if it feels like overkill at the start, because it will support future growth and avoid the limitations of spreadsheets.

If you're gonna do that and you know you're starting out and, and you know long-term you expect to grow and be in business for a while, don't start with a spreadsheet. It's just not a good practice. It's not a good practice. Get yourself in a software that you can grow in and grow with. Basically, it might be a little bit overkill in the beginning, and then you're gonna find that you really will grow with it.