Setting Goals
How do you work with a volunteer board to develop the Mission, Vision and Values statements for a charity in one day? You engage Fay Booker, that’s how. Last year I was invited to become the Treasurer at Ewart Angus …
How do you work with a volunteer board to develop the Mission, Vision and Values statements for a charity in one day? You engage Fay Booker, that’s how. Last year I was invited to become the Treasurer at Ewart Angus …
“What are your business goals? What drives your company?” These might seem to be odd questions for someone implementing your accounting software to ask, yet the answers to them will make a major difference to the success of your new …
For the past several months I have been participating in a business simulation in the world of virtual fashion. Unlike other simulations, I was struck by how “real world” this experience felt. Our goal was to make a splash in …
In their blog post 10 Things You Should Try to Barter For Before Buying, Infomean recommends that you barter for your accounting software. It made the fourth position on their list. It sounds like a good idea, doesn’t it? Software …
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The last thing a CEO wants to have is the reputation of choking on success: “We’re dealing with a class A problem – more sales than forecast,” Robert Meers, chief executive officer at Vancouver-based Lululemon, told the company’s first conference …
In his blog, “The Poetry of Marketing”, Jim Behrle asks that immortal question: why switch accounting software? Should your company use a new accounting software program or should you simply just go with what you have? There are many advantages …
Neil McIntyre had some nice things to say about this blog in his blog. Thanks, Neil! I tried to leave a comment on your blog, but kept getting a fatal error. Thanks also for the note about Francine’s blog. I …
From my earlier post, you know that Manually Entered SpreadSheets (“M.E.S.S.”) are my nemesis. Not only are they time consuming to create and maintain, but they are also difficult to audit. As anyone who has been through a Sarbanes-Oxley (Bill …
[source] They say that confession is good for the soul. I have a confession to make: I never understood the value of graphics in financial reporting. I never created graphs in Excel. I even thought that it was all just …
Rowan Simpson has an engaging discussion about a better way to get at your banking data in his blog. Certainly I would be the first to agree that banking information is at best awkward to import into accounting systems if …