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In a restaurant, good food is what’s important to me. I don’t care what the place looks like or how the food’s arranged on the plate as long as it is a quality meal. My wife, on the other hand, …
In a restaurant, good food is what’s important to me. I don’t care what the place looks like or how the food’s arranged on the plate as long as it is a quality meal. My wife, on the other hand, …
Great News: In version 10 of Microsoft Dynamics GP (formerly Great Plains), the electronic approval of transactions has been significantly expanded. To quote from the What’s New documentation: The workflow approval process expands existing workflow functionality provided in both Microsoft …
RFQ’s or Requests For Quotations are the bane of the accounting software industry. They take a long time to prepare, a long time to complete, and I have to wonder whether they improve the process of selecting accounting software at …
When implementing an accounting system, how do you determine how to identify your Vendors, Customers, Employees, Inventory Items, Fixed Assets, etc. etc. etc? That is a subject that requires some thought. An important question to ask is whether the identifiers …
Clarise deals with Bob the Accountant’s communication style – with tips about eliminating accounting jargon.
Businesses transform, sometimes daily. Accounting systems evolve. How do you know whether your accounting system has fallen behind the business? Reporting Ask people if they use their reports. A client of mine acquired a small business in northern Ontario. They …
M.E.S.S. stands for Manually Entered SpreadSheets. Don’t get me wrong. I was raised on spreadsheets: first Visicalc, then Lotus 123, finally Excel. They are a second language to me. But when I see people pecking away entering raw data in …
Remember when you first installed your accounting system? Remember how the implementation team wisely left the “nice to haves” out of the project as they wrestled with customization, training and data conversion issues? How many times did you hear, “Let’s …