When companies decide to leave QuickBooks, few people object. Have you reached the expiration date on your accounting software?
The Paperless Office: A New Priority for Healthcare Finance Units
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The coronavirus pandemic has been hard for healthcare finance teams trying to exchange paper documents while working remotely. Here’s the simple solution.
Ditching QuickBooks: Why No One Will Miss It
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When companies decide to leave QuickBooks, few people object. Have you reached the expiration date on your accounting software?
The Healthcare Hangout is Back!
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The Healthcare Hangout is Back!We’ve spent the last few weeks working on bringing you more great content. New sessions have been added to the Healthcare Hangout online series which will start on September 17 and run through the end of 2020. Join us online for...
Improve Data Analysis for Better Business Decisions
One of the best examples of something gone terribly wrong is New Coke. In 1985 Coke decided to change the iconic formula of Coke to re-energize the brand and battle with Pepsi to take more market share. Based on taste tests of nearly 200,000 it was decided that the...
Why Nonprofits Flock to Sage Intacct
“It’s easy, it’s powerful, it’s cost effective, and the reporting is really flexible” That’s how Don Miller, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer for Meals on Wheels, describes the financial management solution Sage Intacct. Despite that praise, however, the...
Strategies and Tools for SaaS Finance Leaders
Please be our guest for the SaaS Success Series! Join us online for a complimentary 4-week series for SaaS finance leaders focused on how we can lead our organizations out of crisis and re-ignite growth. SaaS experts and SaaS finance leaders throughout the country...
The Impact of Initial Design
May 18, 2020 There’s a difference between wanting to check your email, Facebook notifications and spending your time well. Years ago business people were addicted to Blackberries, now they are addicted to their iPhone. Today designers need to consider the downstream...
Is Your Business Approaching a Tipping Point?
In the late 70’s Tandy/Radio Shack, Texas Instruments and Apple had the beginnings of a personal computer. Most were used for gaming and personal empowerment but most business people didn’t see the value add. It was a toy for hobbyists, hackers, and nerds. The tipping...
Going Against the Grain
Joe Ricketts built Ameritrade which merged with Toronto-Dominion and is now TD Ameritrade. Back in the 80’s he was frustrated with the clunky PC’s and floppy disks that customers had to install on their own to process stock orders. So he did something different –...
Has Your Business Outgrown Narrow AI?
Narrow AI works fine for chess or the game of Go because there are a defined set of rules to follow and multiple game scenarios that can be run to fine tune the best strategies/outcome. The rub comes with general AI where the rules are not so defined. For example, why...
Gain Real Value with Step Innovation
Most people think of innovation as a ground breaking, disrupting event but in reality there are different types of innovation. Making something better does not require a clean-sheet approach to create – take your current baseline and innovate in steps to get value add...
Does Your Quote Include the A-Team?
Barry Coyne Universities today don’t want you to know about adjunct professors – no chance of tenure, no benefits, a race to the bottom as colleges try to mitigate teaching costs as they compete for a diminishing student population. Just like choosing the right...
Upskilling: The New Buzz Word
Lauren Weber, Wall Street Journal wrote a recent article about companies failing to reskill their employees in this age of disruption. Companies can’t assume the “buy, not build” talent strategy because it’s getting more difficult to acquire the necessary skill sets...
The Future of Work is Multi-Disciplinary Expertise
The future of work will probably look a lot different than today, especially for the accounting field and other white collar jobs. Accounting firms today may offer tax and audit but will need to become versed in multi-disciplinary expertise like consulting or other...
Move to the Cloud with Sage Intacct
Sage Intacct today is a cloud app doing the heavy lifting of mapping transactions to financials so businesses can spend more time analyzing data and making better, faster decisions. Cloud ERP and accounting software represent the beginning of what will transform our...
Being “Comfortable” is Risky
Being “comfortable” is risky…….with outdated Excel reporting on key financial metrics Most accounting staff have used and developed reports off Excel. It’s a global tool but often will mutate into different versions of reality, especially when formulas are derived...
Properly Managing Data for AI
AI is here. One of the significant challenges is properly managing the data for AI. The cloud and Sage Intacct start this process by providing the foundation for AI to extract meaningful transactional data. Only after a clean data extraction can AI start the process...
Why QuickBooks Fails on New Revenue Recognition ASC 606
Here’s one reason why QuickBooks can’t handle the new revenue recognition rules…… The new revenue recognition rule, ASC 606 takes effect for public companies in 2018 and in 2019 for private companies. Here’s how QuickBooks will “handle” the new revenue recognition...
The Accounting Technologist
Today most accountants consult on traditional services like tax, compilation and audit. The new accounting vision is to become more tech savvy and advise clients on moving away from older/out of date/on-site legacy ERP/accounting systems so they can close the books...