Author: moira-alexander

Is Your Company Culture Destroying Creativity?

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Over the course of my career, I’ve been fortunate to have worked with organizations both large and small. No matter what the size the business, I’ve seen that way that culture can enable creativity — or stifle and eventually destroy it altogether.

Destroying Creativity

Many of the traditional organizations I’ve worked with had hierarchies that were focused on group or department roles, with formal and rigid chain of commands. They are highly prone to bureaucracy and role protectionism.

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Accounting’s Shift from the Back Office to the Boardroom

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If your accounting department is still seen as a back-office expense, one you pay for because well, you have to, then you’ve missed out on one of the biggest business shifts in recent years: accounting’s rise as a true strategic partner.

The finance and accounting function is shifting from the back room to the boardroom. A lot of this motion has been fueled by the ongoing development of online reporting tools which offer true real-time reporting visibility that enables sound strategic decision-making.

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Is Your Company Ready for an Audit?

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Big or small, simple or complicated, no business or business owner gets excited at the thought of being audited. One way to lower the pain of a company audit is to prepare ahead of time and the key to doing so is to have the right accounting and tax software in place.

How does having the right software help?

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How to Stop Falling Prey to Manual Processes

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If you’ve ever had to use a purely manual process, you understand why the phrase “work smarter not harder” is so popular.

Manual processes are often inefficient, redundant, and fraught with opportunities for error. That’s not a winning combination.

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The Key Step in Successfully Leading Software Implementations

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So, you’ve taken on the lead system implementation role, and finally your retail business has made the decision to make the leap to a more robust cloud-based point of sale system. Everyone is excited about the move, but hold on, are you missing something —how sure are you that the new application will play nice in the sandbox with your other applications?

Sounds funny right? But it’s unlikely anyone will get a chuckle out of a scenario where employees are left dealing with incorrect data or orphaned records passed from one system to another…if passed along at all.

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Do you have room for SaaS in your budget?

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While many businesses adopt cloud-based services as a cost cutting measure, implementing SaaS solutions must fit both your budget and your goals.

The decision to take on new SaaS expenses typically fall into a few categories. Often, the solution is:

  • A replacement for an existing core service,
  • An additional service to meet a newly identified business requirement, or
  • For a solution that isn’t a business requirement, but simply a “nice to have” software.
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Want to Find Your Perfect Accounting Software? Write A Personal Ad!

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A McCarron [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Dear current accounting software solution,

Though we’ve been together for a long time, it’s time to break up. I’ve grown while you’ve stayed the same sweet little program you always were. That’s right: it’s not you, it’s me.

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