Energized Accounting

March 2008 - Posts

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  Signs You Need a New Accounting System The top 10 signs you need a new accounting system are: 10. The service technician keeps threatening to retire 9. “Reconciliation” is your middle name 8. You ask for “proficiency in DOS” when hiring staff 7. When calling Support you hear laughter in the... Read More... Published: Saturday, March 29, 2008, 02:46 PM Tags: Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Quickbooks

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  FRx Buzz OK, so you're implementing something you've never done before. You have the installation instructions and user guide open on your laptop. Things aren't making sense, so you log into the support web site and find that your question has not... Read More... Published: Thursday, March 27, 2008, 11:13 AM Tags: FRx

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  World's Worst Networker . . . Some people just have that knack. You ask them about anything from ball tickets to hotels in New York and they have someone they can put you in touch with. Not me. I mean I just don't have time for the whole "let's grab a bite" scene... Read More... Published: Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 08:43 AM Tags: networking

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  Accountants Can Be People People 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 a "people... Read More... Published: Monday, March 17, 2008, 08:59 PM Tags: communication

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  One Page Memos When he was Prime Minister of England during the Second World War, Churchill was famous for demanding that all memos be only one page long. I always understood the need for clear writing and brevity. I just never appreciated how difficult one pagers are... Read More... Published: Saturday, March 08, 2008, 07:25 AM Tags: system selection

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  Microsoft is Ready, Are You? Microsoft held an Executive Briefing about Dynamics GP (Great Plains) in Toronto this week. The first speaker talked about the research Microsoft is doing and how they have shadowed actual people at their jobs to see how best to design their software... Read More... Published: Thursday, March 06, 2008, 08:38 AM Tags: technology

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  The Passionate Accountant On Sunday I attended the annual meeting of a church in a well to do part of Toronto where I am not a member. The person in charge of fundraising got up and said that the central church had not reached its fundraising goal last year and was asking for... Read More... Published: Tuesday, March 04, 2008, 06:27 AM Tags: energize