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PwC: rotten to the core or just plain stupid?

PwC: rotten to the core or just plain stupid?audit no auditFrom a technical direction I have almost 30 years experience with computers and software and over the past 8 years or so I have often seen auditors such as KPMG/PWC and alike audit a bank, insurance, payment type companies and...

Tags: Financial accounting, Taxes, Personal finance, Operational accounting, Financial services, audit, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, tax shelter, tax, accounting company

Discussion threads 2009-06-30

European on-demand accounting vendors breaking the dam?

European on-demand accounting vendors breaking the dam?Saasu.com | online accountingHey Dennis, you mentioned plenty of the new guys but not many of who have been delivering soundly and educating the market for years. Saasu.com now has thousands of users including some in the US and at a better price point...

Tags: on-demand accounting company, accounting company, dam, on-demand

Discussion threads 2008-05-14

At Top Accounting Firm, Client Data Protection Is More Than Dollars and Sense

Tofias PC is one of New England's largest and fastest growing regional accounting firms. For the company, client's data is clearly the firm's most valuable asset. Client data is available right away, not hours or days later. Client records are available at the stroke of a key, at anytime, from...

Tags: Accounting, Data Protection, Accounting Company, Tofias PC, Client Data, Client Record, Tofias PC Data, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Backups, Finance

Case studies 2008-02-05

Accounting and Consulting Firm Gets Electronic Document Archive

A unit of the world's largest accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers Denmark produces thousands of documents every day. Historically, all of those documents were created and archived in hard copy. The hard-copy originals were supplemented by electronic copies. In 2003, the company decided that the electronic version of each document should be...

Tags: Accounting, Document, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Accounting Company, Consulting, Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance

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The medical home is reform without objections, so far

Medical HomeThis path is already being broken. At my company, the $56/paycheck credit for not taking a company medical insurance plan has been replaced with a $20 credit IF you participate in a company-sponsored "wellness" program. You have to have a screening on company time - weight, BP,...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Financial Planning, United HealthCare, DUI, public entity, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Most security products flunk quality tests

Testing company ICSA Labs reported that 78 percent of security products fail their first test due to inadequate performance of core product functionality. In a report released Tuesday, ICSA Labs noted that 78 percent of product failures during the first series of tests are due to inadequate...

Tags: ICSA Labs, Security Product, security, test, Liau Yun Qing, ZDNet Asia, Liau Yun Qing, ZDNet Asia

News items 2009-11-17

Adminsoft Accounts 3.186 (Windows)

Adminsoft Accounts is a free accounting program. Easy to use, comprehensive runs on any PC version of Windows from 95 onwards. Suitable for most small to medium sized businesses. Can be upgraded at any time to multi-currency, multi-user, and multi-company. Versions also available specifically for the autotrade and caf/shop businesses....

Tags: Small And Medium Business, Adminsoft, Adminsoft Accounts, Microsoft Windows, Smb/Sme, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Operating Systems, Software, Finance

Software downloads 2009-11-14

CCHIT going on almost as if nothing happened

Republicans up to no good again.Another buck for doing nothing.CCHIT HappensThats it.We bought a package that was CCHIT certified, one of our requirements.We had plenty of other requirements for an EHR, but they wanted to make sure it was certified by someone else just incase the goverment came up with...

Tags: CCHIT, eHR

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

MoneyCare +Personal Accounting Software 3.0.2.0 (Windows)

MoneyCare + is a software to keep record and calculate Incomes and Expenses of Individual or Home or Business. System provides an interface for entering Income and Expense details. Provision is there for editing Income and Expense details later, if the user enters incorrect details. User can assign desirable keys...

Tags: Income, Microsoft Windows, KTS InfoTech, Operational Accounting, Personal Finance, Finance

Software downloads 2009-11-11

TR Dojo: Five reasons why Windows 7 XP Mode will encourage upgrades

In all honesty though . . .In all honesty though - I'm not seeing anything that runs in XP but won't run in Vista/7. The only things that had issues where antiviruses and firewalls - but all of those offered upgrades eventually.It's the UI now more than anything elseI've been...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Windows7, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Win7, XP Mode, Win 7

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Are the Microsoft layoffs over now?

I hope soI hate seeing "SoandSo killing X amount of jobs" in the news =/Ballmer should be the first to get laid offHis reklessness to ignore the FOSS and cling to the proprietary model drove M$ into the ground.Q1 revenues of $13Bn generating $3.5Bn in net profit ...... would tend...

Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Creative accounting, Microsoft Corp., layoff

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Figuring the value of software

Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Microsoft to drop Office Accounting product, services

DumbWhat a dumb move their Accounting software was one of the best products they had.Anyone notice a trend?Dumping Money, dumping Office Accounting, and all at a time when the Feds are increasingly regulating Financial firms. While MS is clearly not a "Financial" Company it looks alot like they are...

Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Office Accounting, Microsoft Corp., Intuit QuickBooks, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Microsoft to drop Office Accounting product, services

Starting November 16, Microsoft is ending distribution and sales of its Microsoft Office Accounting product. Company officials began notifying customers of the decision on October 30. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Accounting, Microsoft Corp., Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Microsoft Office, Finance, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-10-30

ActiveBooks 2.0 (Windows)

ActiveBooks automatically emails valuable, actionable reports from your QuickBooks accounting system. For example, start your work day with the Inventory, Overdue Invoices or A/R Aging Reports (or any of the over 40 reports available) just by checking your email. Keep track of how your company is performing, have your latest...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Operational Accounting, Online Communications, Finance

Software downloads 2009-10-30

The chief value of open source

Custom code solutions...It's great you can see the code, but for companies I disagree that is a "value".What SMB has the resources to comb through thousands of lines of code to assure reliability and security? Even if they do manage to find a bug, are they going to fork...

Tags: open source, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Carry on blues and the blame game

7mgte is right(sorry, I can't reply to a posting, just the story)It's not like the airline saves any money on fuel if you carry it on, vs. check it. It still has to lug the weight around.Just Wait for the Other Shoe Charge to DropJust wait until the airlines "solve"...

Tags: ATM, Financial services, game

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

PayPunch Enterprise 7.5.187 (Windows)

PayPunch is a Biometric Time Clock & Attendance tracking system that replaces the typical time clock used to track employees' attendance. Instead of employees punching a time-card, they simply insert their hand into the reader and enter their employee number. PayPunch does the rest! PayPunch ROI is absolutely outstanding and...

Tags: Payroll, Microsoft Windows, Xpress Software, PayPunch, PayPunch ROI, Operational Accounting, Payroll Solutions, Finance

Software downloads 2009-10-22

EvriChart: A Linux Success Story

Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...

Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-20

HP's Hurd: Cloud computing has its limits (especially when you face 1,000 attacks a day)

HP CEO Mark Hurd is big on cloud computing, but acknowledges its limits. For instance, HP "wouldn't put anything material in nature outside the firewall." The message: The cloud has its place, but there's a vast difference between private and public computing. [caption id="attachment_26254" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Credit:...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Attack, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Virtualization, Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-20