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Accountancy Provider Transforms Customer Service With Business Management Solutions

Inflexible systems at Freelance World hindered its ability to provide an efficient service. Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Codify helped the accountancy provider deploy Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 business management software, with interfaces built using Microsoft Silverlight. Employees now spend less time processing invoices and focus...

Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Customer Service, Business Management, Accountancy, Microsoft Corp., Strategy, Management

Case studies 2009-10-01

Accountancy Body in South Africa Consolidates Server Numbers by 66 Per Cent With Dell Blades

SAICA wanted to make its server infrastructure more sustainable. It looked to consolidate server numbers with machines that used less power, took up less room and were simple to manage. In two days, the company working alongside Dell Deployment Services installed a new Dell blade infrastructure complete with enclosure, and...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Blade, Accountancy, Blade Servers, Servers, Utility Computing, Hardware

Case studies 2009-05-01

Timesheets MTS 2.4.17 (Windows)

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, Microsoft Windows, Timesheets MTS Software, Timesheets MTS

Software downloads 2008-10-24

Landlords Property Manager 7.0 (Windows)

Our property management software solutions are designed by landlords for landlords and are guaranteed to save you time, money and effort in managing all aspects of your property business. Here are the top SEVEN reasons why landlords choose our property management software solutions: Helps landlords to get better organised; Only...

Tags: Accountancy, Microsoft Windows, Property Management, Property Portfolio Software, Real Estate, Business Operations

Software downloads 2008-04-02

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

Increased Sales and Success at IRIS Group

IRIS is the market leading provider for accountancy software with over 9,000 practices relying on its solutions. In order to implement their ambitious growth strategy IRIS Group needed to improve content delivery, maintenance and sharing of over 3,000 web pages across multiple websites. The need for increased flexibility and to...

Tags: Accountancy, Sales, Noko, IRIS, Web Site Development, Content Management, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2006-11-27

More guilty pleas for WorldCom

Two more WorldCom execs have pleaded guilty to fraud in the ongoing investigation into the company's accountancy scandal. Troy Normand, director of legal entity accounting, and Betty Vinson, the former director of management reporting, both pleaded guilty to securities fraud Thursday. The admissions bring to four the number of...

Tags: Accountancy, WorldCom Inc., Fraud, Director, Litigation, Business Operations, Will Sturgeon, Technology News

News items 2002-10-14

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

Case studies

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Auction X2 1.1.0.86 (Windows)

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 e-mail marketing allowing the seller to keep in touch with previous buyers when a similar item is for sale to those they have...

Tags: Seller, Microsoft Windows, eBay Inc., Auction, E-mail, Marketing Research, Online Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-12

Chartered Accountants Improve Efficiency and Data Security With File Management System

haysmacintyre is a firm of chartered accountants and tax advisors that employs 160 people. Based in the United Kingdom, it offers a range of financial services across its tax, auditing, and specialist departments. Chartered accountancy firm haysmacintyre, wanted to store all its outgoing correspondence in an easily accessible central repository....

Tags: Accountant, Microsoft Corp., Data Security, Intranet, Haysmacintyre, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance

Case studies 2009-05-01

Is computer science the one smart major in a recession?

Is computer science the one smart major in a recession?HealthcareBut, be careful about not acquiring excessive debt while getting the education. The more I think I about it, as long as there's money, accountancy.So, competitive advantage, driven by innovation and not price or service or proximity, has never been more...

Tags: Strategy, Benefits, Personal finance, BLS, information technology, smart major, IS COMPUTER, IT Staff, recession, IT People, offshoring

Discussion threads 2009-03-18

HomeEco 2.0 (Windows)

A good and easy to use program for your home economy. You can select plain or budgeted accountancy; make a budget planning for year to come; open unlimited numbers of accounts; printout transactions of your choice, to a file, to your printer or to the screen; decide your own account...

Tags: Transaction, Printers, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-01-03

No accounting software for Linux?

No accounting software for Linux?Compiere in no way can compete...with the likes of even Quickbooks. There are no third party vendors writing specific addons for compiere. CPA's don't support it so don't take a copy of your Compiere data files to your CPA at tax time. And uptodate payroll support...

Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, SMB/SME, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, accounting, Linux, accounting software, Compiere

Discussion threads 2008-11-25

Accounting vs. Technology - Who's At Fault

Did technology play a role in the financial services meltdown? A columnist for a major IT publication documented his positions on the role of IT in the current financial services meltdown. He asked questions such as “Were the internal IT groups in these firms working on...

Tags: Accounting, Financial, Accounting Industry, Financial Accounting, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-09-29

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

Webroot Software Case Study: Westbury

Westbury is a London based firm of Chartered Accountants that has extended its service beyond that of traditional accountants. In the fast-paced environment of Accountancy and Business advisory services, quick turn-round on all work is essential to both the business and its clientele. Westbury had previously instructed another leading web-hosted...

Tags: Webroot Software Inc., Westbury, Business Services, E-mail, Team Management, Online Communications, Management

Case studies 2008-03-07

Business Software Icons 2008.2 (Windows)

Business Software Icons will be a perfect solution for any bookkeeping or accounting software. It provides an impressive collection of icons enough to encompass the whole world of finance. The icon set depicts various matters one way or another related to commerce, such as money, transport, making of reports and...

Tags: Accounting, Business Software, Microsoft Windows, Aha-soft, Enterprise Software, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Software, Finance

Software downloads 2008-03-01

Asigra Case Study: A Desaur & Co.

Asigra online backup and recovery software is being deployed by Qualitas-IT Limited for accountancy firm A Desaur & Co. Having permanently lost 20% of its data during a server failure in April 2007, A Desaur & Co. immediately sought a more reliable and frequent data backup solution that would provide...

Tags: Data, Data Backup, Asigra, Backups, Servers, Hardware

Case studies 2008-02-25

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