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June 2008 - Posts
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You can buy Microsoft Office from any authorized dealer. When you're considering accounting software however, half of your time should be spent evaluating the consulting firm. There is a lot of skill involved in fitting accounting software to a company...
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Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software makes it easy to view customers as statistics. "How many calls have you made?" "How many answers to our email blast did we get?" Similarly, sales management software encourages pipeline...
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Yesterday I attended an alumni event at PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where I spent my formative years as an accountant. It was my first alumni event in longer than I care to admit, which was a big mistake. Several people I remembered from the good old...
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If the budget is viewed as a pointless exercise inflicted on a company by its accountants, then that is all it will remain. If a budget is viewed as a plan, a blueprint for the future, then that is what it will become. Nobody was born with the innate...
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Whether you're an attendee or a presenter, here are some tips to help you get more out of a trade show or conference. Attendee Get it in your calendar! I don't know how many times I've said, "Oh yeah, I meant to get to that" when...
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Yesterday marked the end of three weeks of grueling cross examination of Gordon Eckstein, the Chief Financial Officer of Livent (short for live entertainment), a company whose founders, Myron Gottlieb and Garth Drabinsky, have been accused of a massive...
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I have just come home from the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants IT Solutions Conference. What a great conference! Alas, I haven’t learned how to self-virtualize, so I was unable to attend all the sessions, but here are some quotable quotes...
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Last Sunday, a fifty-seven year old woman died of cardiac arrest in a hospital in Ohio. I never met her and didn't even know her name, Karen Gans, until I read the news of her passing, yet she had a profound effect on me and so many others. I knew...
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"He is always goofing off." "She never gets it right." "He's always late for meetings." People get labeled: the office clown, the slacker, the flirt. My spider senses start to tingle whenever I hear the words "always"...
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