How much time do YOU spend doing financial reporting? For many organizations, the simple answer is “too much”. As a consultant, much of my time is spent helping companies with their financial reporting system for: Results analysis and forecasting by management, Oversight by …
Energized Accounting is happy to include a guest post from the Intuit Team, on a subject that is close to my heart: reducing the pain (and time!) involved in tax return preparation. Data entry can be a tough slog for …
“I hate this system!” I had been just making conversation (in an accounting kind of way). The person behind the counter was entering my order and I happened to recognize the system she was using. Well, I got an earful …
The first article in this series talked about the initial things to do in an accounting turnaround. This one is about the accounting system itself. The first step is triage: determining if the system is good to go, walking wounded …
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 …