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 …
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Financial Reporting System Weakness – Part 1
Bill Kennedy
Posted in Accounting, Accounting Software, Analysis, Blog, Financial Statements, Reporting, Software, Spreadsheet
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Budget Spreadsheets are Complex!
Bill Kennedy
Posted in Accounting, Budgeting, Charity, Communication, Management, Spreadsheet
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Even as a professional accountant, I find other people’s budget spreadsheet models complex and difficult to follow. This article is about simple steps that budget preparers can do to help other people understand how their spreadsheets interact with one another. …
Financial Reporting System Weakness
Bill Kennedy
Posted in Accounting, Accounting Software, Analysis, Budgeting, Business Intelligence, Crystal Reports, Financial Statements, FRx, Implementation, Spreadsheet
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How much time is spent preparing financial reports? For many organizations, the simple answer is “a lot”. As a consultant, much of my time is spent helping companies with financial reporting systems for: Results analysis and forecasting by management, Oversight …
M.E.S.S. Revisited
Bill Kennedy
Posted in Financial Statements, FRx, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Spreadsheet
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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 …
Eliminate M.E.S.S.
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 …
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