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My client was a small association. Their "books" consisted of wide green sheets that recorded all of the transactions. At the end of the year, an external accountant would turn the sheets into financial statements, which would be presented to...
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When I first read the Top 50 Accounting Blogs , I was surprised and delighted that there are enough accounting blogs to merit a top 50 list. To be included in the list was an honour. My thanks to MBA Explorer for taking the time to do the research. MBA...
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Stuck on what to give your favourite geek for his/her anniversary? Fear not! The internet has the answer: http://www.socialsignal.com/blog/alexandra-samuel/halfway-to-hex A big thank you to Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media for the...
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Stephen Covey has a wonderful story about teaching his son to take care of the lawn, which I won't spoil here except to say that it was a difficult process and he has to remind himself constantly that the goal was to raise children not grass. That...
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Harry is one of our unit managers. His normally calm, diplomatic voice takes on a sudden energy as he leans across the table and says, "People seem to think that any mission will do. That's just not true." Harry has a point. Missions have...
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The first accounting system I had to supervise was an IBM product called MAPICS. I was an inexperienced newbie and knew nothing, so I joined a user group. Every couple of months we would meet at someone's office and someone would bring donuts. We...
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The accountant usually has a feel for what's really going on. My grandfather's accountant, Lloyd Smith, had a client in the construction business. While doing the financial statements, Lloyd realized that some of the projects were losing money...
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" Tally 9.0 has been dubbed the most advanced accounting software on the planet ." That claim is obviously more marketing spin than carefully researched fact, but it points to a trap that we so frequently fall into: comparing accounting software...
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Last night, at the dojo , John was teaching. John has a radically different way of teaching martial arts. He smiles. He cracks jokes. He took a serious Aikido exercise and called it the "Weeble Wobble" (as in " weebles wobble but they don't...
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Chris Brogan , a social media expert, has a great concept he calls the Brag Bag. Every Friday he posts an article encouraging people to add a comment about something they're proud of. Some people talk about personal accomplishments. Some people brag...
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Today's Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper had this article about a city of San Francisco computer engineer who changed the security passwords on his employer's system. The system still works, but nobody can get in to set up new users, change passwords...
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The only time my father's employer changed was when his firm merged with another, whereas I have had several employers, including myself. I didn't plan it that way. In fact, I had every intention of staying with my first employer until I retired...
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The story you are about to read is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. It was Tuesday, July 8, a smoggy day in the metropolis. My name is Joe Friday, and I implement business systems. Normally accountants are quiet, orderly people...
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“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.” In how many MBA classes, inspirational business speeches and management books has this...
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Turnkey : it’s a beautiful word, isn’t it? When used to describe accounting software, it conjures up the image of just turning the key in the ignition, hearing the roar of the engine and driving off into the sunset. It’s a whole sales pitch in a word...
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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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