by admin | 08 Tue Nov 2016 | Automation, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Information, Method, Process, Tools
… and Give it More Grunt Where You Can’t. The world record for a spreadsheet-based error is US$6.2 billion (yes, Billion with a B, with JP Morgan). It involved a copy-and-paste error, and was a real cash cost. The runner up is “only” US$2.6...
by admin | 04 Fri Nov 2016 | Advantage, Cash Flow, Economy
Of course you should ask (and take) discounts – ten bucks is ten bucks! This is the second of two posts about discounts. You can find the first one, which says “don’t offer them”, here. Ten bucks is a lot more than ten bucks if you can get your suppliers to...
by admin | 04 Fri Nov 2016 | Advantage, Cash Flow, Economy
Discounts cut into your gross margin, and you’ll have to get a lot more sales to make up for it. (There’s a bit of math in this post, but all of it just illustrates the previous sentence.) This is the first of two posts about discounts. This one tells you not to...
by admin | 04 Fri Nov 2016 | Economy, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Information, Quickbooks, Tools
Good question. As we’ve said elsewhere, each of Quickbooks’ three editions (Online, Pro, Premier) can have multiple versions (eg. 2013, 2016), flavours (eg. Contractors, Non-Profit, Retail), and regions (eg. Canada and US for most of our readers). Features (Budgets,...
by admin | 04 Fri Nov 2016 | Advantage, Automation, Cash Flow, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Quickbooks
This is the fourth of four blogs on Quickbooks’ ability to help you see into the future. In this one, we evaluate Quickbooks’ ability to create Estimates (project budgets). Feature QBO Pro Prem Commentary Estimates (i.e. Job Costing) ✔ ✔✔ ✔✔ Initial estimate of a...
