Ville Kuusinen, Sports reporter
Ville Kuusinen, a sports commentator known from Viaplay and V Sport. Traveling frequently between Tampere and Helsinki for studio work, he simplified his travel expense reporting with Finago eTasku.
“If compiling and gathering information for one month’s travel expenses from Excel previously took an hour, now the same task is done in fifteen minutes.” Ville Kuusinen, Sports Commentator
Known to many from Viaplay and V Sport football game voices, Ville Kuusinen travels frequently between Tampere and Helsinki for studio work. Like many of his colleagues, he works as an entrepreneur and uses Finago eTasku to keep his travel routines under control.
Ville’s voice has become familiar to Finnish football fans who follow international football. After starting at UrhoTV, he’s now one of the familiar commentators for Viaplay and V Sport, covering everything from the English Premier League to the German Bundesliga and Finland’s national team.
The sport commentator is working as an entrepreneur.
The risks of entrepreneurship became clear when coronavirus halted all major football leagues in Europe and commentary assignments stopped overnight. The situation quickly turned, though:
“With no audiences in the stands, every match had to be televised, and overlapping games became rare. That’s been positive for work, so in that sense I’m in a lucky position.”
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As soon as he became an entrepreneur, Ville outsourced his accounting to an accounting office. He started using Finago eTasku on his accountant’s recommendation after the firm adopted the app.
“The principles of creating travel expense claims haven’t changed, but eTasku’s features have made the process much faster. If one month’s travel expenses used to take an hour to compile from Excel, now it’s fifteen minutes.”
Finago eTasku automatically calculates travel allowances based on details you input, such as departure and destination points and times. Receipts scanned with the app are read automatically too, leaving only a quick check for you.
Ville collects expense receipts from lunch meetings, office supplies like pens and paper, and regular phone or internet bills. “I don’t want to spend a second more than necessary on paperwork,” he says.
“If I pop into a barber before a day in the studio, I snap a photo of the receipt, upload it to my accountant through the app, and it takes 20 seconds. Then the receipt goes straight in the bin. Compared to before, Finago eTasku saves me time, and that’s something you can’t measure in money.”