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The Secret to Going Fast: Slow Down!
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...
The Simple Solution to Better, Faster Decisions
To be relevant today, we need to differentiate our product/service offering and be competitive to add value. We have to stay ahead of our customers, validate assumptions, and guide them to the next stage. Going to the cloud with Sage Intacct is a solid start in this...
How Technology is Changing Accounting
Forget the traditional audit where a team of accountants spend weeks at a client to produce a document that's out of date and expensive.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...
New Cloud Accounting System? How to Increase Customer Engagement
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...
Why Dashboards Matter – Sage Intacct
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...
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 The new accounting vision is to become more tech savvy and advise clients on moving away from older/out of date/on-site legacy ERP/accounting systems so they can close the books...
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...
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...
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...
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...