Good dashboard design with the right metrics provide the value add when a client signs up to upgrade from older legacy systems. Sage Intacct provides the relevant dashboards by role to key in on these highlights and drive your business forward. Dashboards in Sage...

It is key to increase customer engagement when upgrading to a new cloud accounting system, like Sage Intacct. It is important to have a good strategy set before the kick off meeting.  Engaging the customer should be a continuous process from the selling cycle, to...

Forget the traditional audit where a team of accountants spend weeks at a client to produce a document that's out of date and expensive. The future value add in accounting is all about advising (moving from obsolete accounting systems), predicting (using new tools to...

  Spinning your tires in a snow drift is fast tire rotation without making any progress or forward movement. In today's culture of fast food, electronic trading, texting, and video gaming many of us feel the pressure to make decisions quickly so we can move on to...

How do you know when your accounting system is running well? Unfortunately, there is no standard measurement of health for an accounting system: no blood pressure, BMI, or pulse check. However, here are some points to consider this month during your month-end close...

Futurist Roy Amara stated, "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run." This captures the hype when new tech is played out in the press, followed by disillusionment when it’s not perfect day one....

Is your business moving the needle, experimenting with new ideas/technologies or just playing it safe for another year? Many companies are tied to old practices that are comfortable, for example, a company can get better at closing the books every period, tying up...

Never assume your brand. Recently 3G Capital/Kraft Heinz made news with a $15B write down, drop in stock price of 27% . This is another example of not keeping an ear to the market, solely focusing on cost cutting via zero based budgeting, and missing key signals in...

  "Culture beats strategy, so much that culture is strategy"  – Seth Godin Culture defines a company - what it does, how it adds value, and how it grows a customer base. A culture that has the ability to deliver change and add value as a best practice not only...

  Forty five years ago Stanley Milgram mailed out parcels to one hundred people in Omaha, NE working on his “six degrees of separation”. His whimsical method gave him the theory but not the proof. That changed in 2011 when the scale of Facebook proved that he was...

  In 1975, a researcher named Steven Sasson, working for Eastman Kodak built the first digital camera. He saw the potential for this new device and told executives it would compete with film in the next 15-20 years. Eastman Kodak then developed the first...

Your biggest risk isn’t failure; it’s sustained mediocrity (Wroblewski, 2017). This quote applies today more than ever as disruption is front and center for many businesses. Here are some examples of the paradigm shift, which caught most of us by surprise. Uber –...

  Brothers Chip and Dan Heath published Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, in 2007. Their idea premise is “stickiness” and it’s core values are below Simple – find the core of any idea Unexpected – grab people's attention by surprising them...

Plug and Play is a capability developed by Microsoft for its operating systems first developed in the 90’s. It gives users the ability to plug a device into a computer and have the computer recognize that the device is there….the user doesn’t have to tell the computer...