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Category: Communication

Budget Spreadsheets are Complex!

By Bill Kennedy Posted on January 24, 2014 Posted in Accounting, Budgeting, Charity, Communication, Management, Spreadsheet
Budget Spreadsheets are Complex!
Budget Overview Chart

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. …

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Career Advice for your Children

By Bill Kennedy Posted on January 21, 2014 Posted in Career Development, Change Management, Charity, Communication, Decision Making, Professional Development

Parents have to be more pragmatic in how they advise their offspring, so students gain the skills needed by business, according to Mark Venning, Chairman of the Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling, as quoted by the Globe and …

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Status Reports with CLASS

By Bill Kennedy Posted on July 30, 2013 Posted in Charity, Communication, Management

Whether it’s reporting to the Executive Director, the Board or a funder, status reports are critical.  They show that: You are in control of the situation, despite any setbacks, You are organized, You are accountable for the resources used, and …

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Board Reporting: Action, Approval, Information – Which is it?

By Bill Kennedy Posted on June 8, 2009 Posted in Communication

“Bill, I’m not sure what you’re asking the committee to do with the material you sent out for the meeting.” The man on the phone was the committee Chair and he wanted to be sure he understood what was being …

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Accountants Can Be People People

By Bill Kennedy Posted on March 18, 2008 Posted in Communication

In the March 14th edition of the Toronto Globe and Mail, Wallace Immen wrote the following under the title “Gaffes: Boneheaded ways to blow a job interview”: Other interview-snuffing gaffes included: . . . An accountant who insisted she was …

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Getting the Message Across

By Bill Kennedy Posted on September 4, 2007 Posted in Communication, Microsoft Dynamics GP Tagged with Great Plains

[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 …

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