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[This article is #2 in a multi-post  |  To see Part 1, click here] Small to medium business enterprises who do not know about ERP should take a look at the comparison this article series offers regarding open source ERP and proprietary ERP. It is important to note that for ...

The Real Cost of Open Source ERP Small to medium businesses will typically outgrow their off-the-shelf accounting software (Quickbooks, Quicken, Peachree, etc) when their distribution demands push the systems to their limits. At this point, inventory-centric businesses often dive into Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to integrate accounting, sales, production and ...

Have you ever tried to add up hours in Excel? It’s kind of tricky… For all of its intelligence, when it comes to adding up time units, Excel can't guess how you want to track hours or how to display them, leaving you googling for solutions and voila! You come ...

If you are growing an apparel business, you've got it already: to succeed you have to manage continuously changing fashions and designs, assortments of all kinds, waste, size variation assembly, backstocking, the works. Inventory management for apparel businesses of all kinds is a big challenge. As the number of designs or products ...

This is the time of year when many accountants and business owners have to clean up their mistakes from the previous year. For businesses that run on Mac computers, there can be a lot more clean-up work than their PC-anchored counterparts. To follow are the most common (and time consuming) ...

Very few buzzwords stimulate the strong feelings and controversy associated with growth hacking. Every company needs sustainable growth to be successful. The idea that you can “hack” growth is alluring to some and offensive to others. Growth hacking sounds a lot like “overnight success” to people working diligently to grow ...

Why Switch QuickBooks® is a terrific tool for many small companies just getting started. It is quick and cheap to implement and you likely know somebody that has used it before.  But when does QuickBooks® stop being the right choice?  Here are four things our clients have told us about ...

To follow are just a few of the changes that may affect your personal return in 2014 (changes in tax law that took effect in 2013). Each of these changes are discussed in more detail throughout the IRS' 2013 Tax Guide for Individuals. At the top? You may be paying ...

QuickBooks for Mac Inventory: input errors Enjoy! The top 4 most common Quickbooks input errors: Writing a check AFTER you enter a bill QuickBooks is designed with the expectation that you will enter each bill as it arrives using the “Enter Bills” window. Then, when all bills are entered, the ...

Why Switch QuickBooks® is a terrific tool for many small companies just getting started. It is quick and cheap to implement and you likely know somebody that has used it before.  But when does QuickBooks® stop being the right choice?  Here are four things our clients have told us about ...