A lot of businesses manage their customers and finances on separate platforms. This disconnect often leads to missed invoices, incorrect tax calculations, and duplicated data, and businesses become vulnerable to costly accounting mistakes.

As soon as deals start rolling in your CRM, there are payments, invoices, and taxes to track. That's where things can get complicated. Using a CRM for customer relationships and an accounting platform separately creates a gap. And that gap? It's where errors happen.

Here are five critical accounting mistakes you can easily avoid.