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Turning to the IT Department When Times are Tough
Turning to the IT Department When Times are Tough When budgets get tight and the economic outlook is bleak, business owners and executives tend to turn to information technology departments and...
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Getting out of IT Jail
Getting out of IT Jail I have a friend in the accounting/technology industry that spends way too much time on his business in-house IT. He’s always futzing around with servers and workstations, fixing...
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Accounting Professionals Should Do This: Be Proactive and Regularly...
Accounting Professionals Should Do This: Be Proactive and Regularly Communicate with Clients I’m not sure where I heard it, I think it was a sky diver on TV, who said about the sport “you’re dead until...
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Bookkeeping and Benchmarks – Getting the Numbers Right
Bookkeeping and Benchmarks – Getting the Numbers Right I am a big fan of business analytical and reporting tools. I very much believe in using industry benchmarks as a means to understand various...
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The Psychology of Small Business IT Adoption
The Psychology of Small Business IT Adoption Convincing small business owners to adopt and apply technology in their businesses is often a difficult thing to do. While most business owners readily...
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Accounting Professionals, You’re right – your clients don’t care about the...
Accounting Professionals, You’re right – your clients don’t care about the numbers. What your clients care about is how they’re doing, and if they’re on the right path. Are you helping them understand...
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Helping a Small Business Customer Choose Your Solution
Helping a Small Business Customer Choose Your Solution In a previous article entitled The Psychology of Small Business IT Adoption, I discussed Icek Ajzen’s Theory of Planned Behavior and how a number...
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Global CFOs returning to fundamentals
Global CFOs returning to fundamentals Accounting professionals in the United States have recognized for some time the value of offering what many refer to as “high level” services to their clients....
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Philosophy of Process Improvement: Today’s CFO Focusing on Operations
Philosophy of Process Improvement: Today’s CFO Focusing on Operations There are a great many methodologies and approaches to “making businesses better” through process improvement. From SixSigma to...
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Small Businesses and Performance Data – Analytics are more important than ever
Small Businesses and Performance Data – Analytics are more important than ever Creating and keeping a competitive edge is critical to building a successful business. Developing a plan, monitoring the...
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Workflow is Essential in Document Driven Business
Workflow is Essential in Document Driven Business The popularity and proliferation of online applications and cloud computing solutions for business has transformed how organizations manage activities,...
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Moving to the Cloud While Retaining Your Investment in People, Process and...
Moving to the Cloud While Retaining Your Investment in People, Process and Business Knowledge When businesses consider moving their information technology to the “cloud”, the problem is often...
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The Collaborative Online Model for Small Business Accounting Professionals
The Collaborative Online Model for Small Business Accounting Professionals Accountants and bookkeepers serving small business clients are facing a growing problem – how to provide services that are...
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What Small Businesses Need To Know about QuickBooks and the Cloud
What Small Businesses Need To Know about QuickBooks and the Cloud With all the talk of cloud computing and having remote access to business applications and data, many small business owners are finding...
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What’s Motivating Small Businesses to Move to the Cloud?
What’s Motivating Small Businesses to Move to the Cloud? When information technology professionals tell their small business clients about cloud computing, it often sounds even more complicated, risky...
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Hosting All My Applications in the Cloud
Hosting All My Applications in the Cloud Many business owners will recall when their first in-house computer networks were installed. When the PCs were networked together in an office, it made file...
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Why Accountants and Bookkeepers Use the Cloud
When businesses do business, they generate a lot of information. In most cases, this information has a relationship to a financial transaction of some sort, like a bill from a vendor or an invoice or...
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Innovation and Disruption: Challenging the Professional Accountant’s Value
Innovation and Disruption: Challenging the Professional Accountant’s Value It’s tough, being a professional accountant or bookkeeper for small businesses and it’s not getting any easier. Yes, there...
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Moving Your Systems to the Cloud
Moving Your Systems to the Cloud The IT industry is promoting cloud computing and online applications as the new normal for computing, and unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years...
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Accounting and Business Technologies | Joanie Mann: Salvaging Business...
The issue is that you are either a customer or you are not, meaning that companies can’t keep their old SaaS solutions around just for historic data unless they wish to continue the subscription with...
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