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- Accountancy Firm Boosts Confidence and Cost Control With Software Asset Management
- H W Fisher & Company - a top 25 firm of chartered accountants - uses a range of Microsoft products, including Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Microsoft encouraged H W Fisher to implement Software Asset Management SAM as an exercise in corporate governance that would benefit...
- Tags: Accountancy, Cost Control, Microsoft Corp., E-mail Servers, Tools & Techniques, Corporate Governance, Groupware, Benefits, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-05-01
- Small Accountancy Firm Improves Productivity by 50 Percent
- Accountancy firm Carolan & Blake had a lot of small technology issues that added up to a big business problem. The firm's computer system was prone to faults which made management concerned about losing client information. Carolan & Blake needed affordable technology that kept its data secure, helped employees work...
- Tags: Accountancy, Firm, Microsoft Corp.
- Case studies 2007-01-28
- Timesheets MTS (zip)
- Timesheets MTS is a low cost time, materials, and travel billing and logging tool. It is ideally suited to accountancy firms, consultants, or contractors that provide services to companies and bill their time and expenses. Benefits of Timesheets MTS Manage your employees work hours, travel, and expenses by client and...
- Tags: Accountancy, Timesheets MTS
- Software downloads 2006-11-29
- Accountancy Firm Creates Collaborative Services With Hosted Portal Solution
- Belgian accountancy firm Kantoor Deweer wanted to assist its customers in self monitoring and altering their accountancy records. With a small team, the company needed to create a portal that would connect customers and employees to crucial information, with minimal management requirements. The Web site would serve as its customers'...
- Tags: Accountancy, Kantoor Deweer, Portals, Web Technology, Internet
- Case studies 2005-08-01
- Oracle Case Study: The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
- The Association of Chartered Certified Accounts ACCA is the largest global accountancy body. The association wanted to cut overhead by supplementing existing telephone, mail, and fax channels with online ordering for registration packs and publications and enable online enrollment for courses and allow customers in different time zones to access...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Accountancy, Fax
- Case studies
- Reliable Computer System Saves Accountancy Practice £10,000 in Annual Support Costs
- By replacing an error-prone, unreliable computer system with one based on Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003, WJ James & Co. has saved thousands of pounds. The new system requires less support, whilst remote access means it can be managed and maintained without the need for expensive on site consultancy....
- Tags: Accounting, Accountancy, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Computer System, Productivity, Operational Accounting, Remote Access, Financial Services, Finance
- Case studies
- Ramsay Brown Reduces Tax Time Burden With IP Office Solution and Regains Competitive Advantage With New Technology
- Ramsay Brown & Partners has been supplying first class accountancy services to the medical profession and other sectors in the United Kingdom since 1935. The company wanted to answer and manage the increase in calls received during the busy tax season months without adding personnel. The company also wanted to...
- Tags: Accountancy, Microsoft Office, IP, Avaya Inc., Ramsay Brown & Partners, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance
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- Billion-dollar IT failure at Census Bureau
- Billion-dollar IT failure at Census BureauAmateurs2 billion wasted? Ha! Take a look at the Navy's NMCI debacle, a sprawling EDS boondoggle sucking down billions of your tax dollars. What's funny, in many cases the same people are doing the grunt work, only at vastly inflated prices. It's...
- Tags: Billion-dollar IT failure, information technology, government
- Discussion threads 2008-03-21
- Consultant disease: not knowing what you don't know..
- Consultant disease: not knowing what you don't know..Regarding the technical rather than legal aspect...I've found myself in the same place from time to time, but really, what's the alternative? As consultants we are getting paid generally for our depth of experience and broad range of knowledge and while you...
- Tags: Workforce management, Operating systems, training, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-10-10
- Auction X2 (exe)
- Auction X2 provides the eBay seller with detailed graphs and reports, a local complete database of imported information from the sellers eBay account, accountancy features and automated email marketing allowing the seller to keep in touch with previous buyers when a similar item is for sale to those they have...
- Tags: Seller, eBay Inc., Auction, Auction X2, E-mail, Marketing Research, Online Communications, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-10-05
- Politicians weigh renewal of Net access tax ban
- Politicians weigh renewal of Net access tax banThe internet is way to complicated for a tax. Besides we are already taxedHow so you ask? Hosting providers pay taxes on power, water, personell. We pay taxes when we buy a PC, when we turn it on and it...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Internet access, Internet, tax
- Discussion threads 2007-05-23
- 404: not founded in reality?
- 404: not founded in reality?ContextIt seems somehow appropriate that the section number is also the best-known HTTP error code.Ad-hoc user-driven IT budget re-allocationSounds like a nightmare to me. I'm not saying individual departments (or smaller, depending on how you're company chooses to label its organitional units) shouldn't have an...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, good people, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-05-22
- ACCA UK Standardises on ADF and JHeadstart to Rapidly Develop Key Self-Service and Back Office Applications
- ACCA the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants is the largest and fastest-growing global professional accountancy body with 296,000 students and 115,000 members in 170 countries. ACCA aims to achieve and promote the highest professional, ethical and governance standards and advance the public interest. Oracle technology is used across the entire...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Back-office, B2C, Operational Accounting, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Finance
- Case studies 2007-03-01
- Timesheets Lite (zip)
- Timesheets Lite is a piece of software written for companies that cost their employees time on an hourly basis. This could include accountancy firms, consultants, or contractors. It enables companies to create projects in the software, create employees in the software, and then allow those employees to book their time...
- Tags: Software, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2006-11-14
- Evolution, risks, controls, and strategies
- Evolution, risks, controls, and strategiesOh no, not more IT people who think they know about accountancy"A big part of the problem here arises because accounting ideas are extremely stable over time while IT ideas are not. Thus our idea of a system wide control is fifty or more years ahead...
- Tags: Thin clients, PRODUCTIVITY, strategy, information technology, thin client, IT idea, IT People
- Discussion threads 2006-08-02
- The first blogger 'dooced' in France
- We all know that bloggers can be 'dooced' -- or fired -- because of their blogs. Until now, this was pretty much limited to the U.S. and the UK. But yesterday, the Daily Telegraph reported that a 33-year-old British secretary working in Paris, France, 'petite anglaise,' had been sacked by...
- Tags: blog
- Blog posts 2006-07-19
- How One Small Firm Saves Money on IT Support, Travel, and Telecommunications
- Craig Douglas wanted his Sydney-based accountancy firm, C.A. Douglas & Associates CADA, to crown its move to new premises with an IT upgrade. But, having seen the trouble many small businesses endure with technology, Douglas appreciated the task ahead. His firm already had problems with mobility and secure remote access...
- Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Remote Access, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Telecommunications, Operating Systems, Software, Management
- Case studies 2006-05-01
- SelfAccounts (exe)
- SelfAccounts is a simple to use personal accounting software. No prior accountancy knowledge is required to start using SelfAccounts. It can be used for keeping your day-to-day accounts or for recording any particular financial transactions. Data entered can be easily browsed and analyzed through its interlinked reports. Supports multiple files,...
- Tags: Accounting, ShaPlus Software, SelfAccounts, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance
- Software downloads 2005-10-22
- Prepare for more scrutiny after SEC's SOX failure, says Gartner
- Earlier this week, CNet News.com reported that the Government Accountability Office GAO audit of the SEC found that the organization, ironically, did not have effective internal control over financial reporting, pointing to weaknesses in its information security and accountancy practices. The GAO also found that the SEC's financial statements for...
- Tags: SEC, Government Accountability Office
- Blog posts 2005-06-30
- Did SOX failure push SEC Chairman over the edge?
- Earlier this week, CNet News.com reported that the Government Accountability Office GAO audit of the SEC found that the organization, ironically, did not have effective internal control over financial reporting, pointing to weaknesses in its information security and accountancy practices. The GAO also found that the SEC's financial statements for...
- Tags: Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, SEC, Government Accountability Office
- Blog posts 2005-06-01
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