LONDON, April 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- IRIS Resourcing Delivers Ground Breaking Quality of Delivery for UK 
Accountants Looking to Outsource

IRIS, the market leading provider of software and associated services to
UK accountancy firms, 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 3/4 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 (
http://www.iris.co.uk/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 nine 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 numbers 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."

About IRIS Accountancy Practice Solutions

With over 14,000 accountancy practices of all sizes and with over 60% of
the top 50 firms as clients, IRIS is the market leading provider of software
and services to UK accountancy firms. 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 Practice Software is a fully integrated suite comprising compliance
modules for tax, final accounts, company secretarial and formations, plus
practice management including customer relationship management, document
management, time and fees, and workflow., In addition IRIS offers products
and services including outsourcing for accounting, HR and payroll as well as
expert tax consultancy.

There is also a comprehensive range of great value compliance products
and added value tools under the PTP software brand, renowned for excellent
customer service and essential basic tax tools are available from Drummohr.

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 demonstrates consistent success in
the surveys conducted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England
and Wales (ICAEW) and has an outstanding customer retention rate of 97%.

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 cGBP120m p.a. and c1,200 employees servicing over
60,000 UK businesses from a national network of offices.