Virtual CFO Services and Partnering with Bookkeepers
Virtual CFO Services and Partnering with Bookkeepers Many accounting professionals seek to become more involved with their business clients, helping to institute the controls and establish the...
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Cash is being spent instead of hoarded, but not on current payables A recent article on CIO.com reports that, for only the second time in more than two years, “the corporate-cash indicator from the...
View ArticleKnowing Enough to Run a Successful Business
Knowing Enough to Run a Successful Business If you own and operate a business, you probably want to make it successful. Granted, success comes in many flavors, and there are also “degrees” of success,...
View ArticleDoes Your Customer Data Support the Value of Your Receivables? | FundingGates...
Does Your Customer Data Support the Value of Your Receivables? | FundingGates blog Trade Accounts Receivable (AR) represents the credit a company extends to its business partners. AR is essentially an...
View ArticleGetting out of IT Jail
Getting out of IT Jail I have a friend in the accounting/technology industry that spends way too much time on his business in-house IT. He’s always futzing around with servers and workstations, fixing...
View ArticleAccounting Professionals Should Do This: Be Proactive and Regularly...
Accounting Professionals Should Do This: Be Proactive and Regularly Communicate with Clients I’m not sure where I heard it, I think it was a sky diver on TV, who said about the sport “you’re dead until...
View ArticleBookkeeping and Benchmarks – Getting the Numbers Right
Bookkeeping and Benchmarks – Getting the Numbers Right I am a big fan of business analytical and reporting tools. I very much believe in using industry benchmarks as a means to understand various...
View ArticleAccounting Professionals, You’re right – your clients don’t care about the...
Accounting Professionals, You’re right – your clients don’t care about the numbers. What your clients care about is how they’re doing, and if they’re on the right path. Are you helping them understand...
View ArticleGlobal CFOs returning to fundamentals
Global CFOs returning to fundamentals Accounting professionals in the United States have recognized for some time the value of offering what many refer to as “high level” services to their clients....
View ArticlePhilosophy of Process Improvement: Today’s CFO Focusing on Operations
Philosophy of Process Improvement: Today’s CFO Focusing on Operations There are a great many methodologies and approaches to “making businesses better” through process improvement. From SixSigma to...
View ArticleWorkflow is Essential in Document Driven Business
Workflow is Essential in Document Driven Business The popularity and proliferation of online applications and cloud computing solutions for business has transformed how organizations manage activities,...
View ArticleThe Collaborative Online Model for Small Business Accounting Professionals
The Collaborative Online Model for Small Business Accounting Professionals Accountants and bookkeepers serving small business clients are facing a growing problem – how to provide services that are...
View ArticleWhat Small Businesses Need To Know about QuickBooks and the Cloud
What Small Businesses Need To Know about QuickBooks and the Cloud With all the talk of cloud computing and having remote access to business applications and data, many small business owners are finding...
View ArticleWhy Accountants and Bookkeepers Use the Cloud
When businesses do business, they generate a lot of information. In most cases, this information has a relationship to a financial transaction of some sort, like a bill from a vendor or an invoice or...
View ArticleInnovation and Disruption: Challenging the Professional Accountant’s Value
Innovation and Disruption: Challenging the Professional Accountant’s Value It’s tough, being a professional accountant or bookkeeper for small businesses and it’s not getting any easier. Yes, there...
View ArticleClient Solutions, not just Professional Services
Client Solutions, not just Professional Services Accounting Professionals serving a small business client base are struggling to find ways to demonstrate the value of the services they provide, yet...
View ArticleQuickBooks Hosting Services for IT-Capable Accountants
QuickBooks Hosting Services for IT-Capable Accountants Small businesses in large numbers are looking to the cloud as a platform to deliver solutions for the problems of escalating IT costs, mobility,...
View ArticleAccounting Professionals, Software as Service, and DIY
The question begs to be asked “how did we get here?” (with “here” being the current state of information technology and the accounting industry). There is confusion in the market; there is still...
View ArticleCloud Computing and Online Accounting for All? Some Markets Are Still Waiting...
Cloud Computing and Online Accounting for All? Some Markets Are Still Waiting on Broadband As the information technology industry espouses the benefits of the “paradigm shift” in computing and the move...
View ArticleTechnology and Tools for Accounting Professionals
Technology and Tools for Accounting Professionals There was a time not so long ago when accounting professionals focused more on tabulation and summarizing of information than on analysis. Accounting...
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