One Page Memos
When he was Prime Minister of England during the Second World War, Churchill was famous for demanding that all memos be only one page long. I always understood the need for clear writing and brevity. I just never appreciated how …
When he was Prime Minister of England during the Second World War, Churchill was famous for demanding that all memos be only one page long. I always understood the need for clear writing and brevity. I just never appreciated how …
Microsoft held an Executive Briefing about Dynamics GP (Great Plains) in Toronto this week. The first speaker talked about the research Microsoft is doing and how they have shadowed actual people at their jobs to see how best to design …
On Sunday I attended the annual meeting of a church in a well to do part of Toronto where I am not a member. The person in charge of fundraising got up and said that the central church had not …
Sometimes my job can be so gratifying. One of the accounting staff came into my temporary office today saying those immortal words, “Where have you been all my life? I have just entered a stack of wire transfers. In our …
Agile Software Development has been around since the mid 90’s and is gaining acceptance. If you implement mid-range packaged accounting software, like Microsoft Dynamics, you really need to look at this methodology. It is characterized by: Customer satisfaction by rapid, …
OK, I was having a little fun with the idea of an XBox game for accountants, but it has a serious side to it as well. You will find it here. In another posting, I sent an open letter to …
AccountingWeb just published the results of a survey by their British counterpart that should be read by Canadian accountants interested in technology. While in spirit accountants might like to get involved with e-business, the reality of their current knowledge and …
I’m now officially a member of the blogging crew at AccountingWeb. You can find my first post at http://www.accountingweb.com/blogs/bill_kennedy_blog.html on sales analysis using Excel Pivot Charts. AccountingWeb is targeted at the American accounting market, so I will continue with this …
Charity for the homeless Focus Ireland has tripled in size without increasing its finance department thanks to accounting software from Exchequer. This item in Ireland’s Technology News Service, SiliconRepublic, caught my eye because this is the message accounting software vendors …
Did you hear the one about the rogue trader who cost a French bank two years worth of profits? These days, it’s nothing new. We seem to hear about people routinely circumventing companies’ control systems and causing an uproar, whether …