String Theory, Black Holes, and Business Analytics
One of the daily pleasures I maintain, is to take time to read my Wall Street Journal. Yes, I still like the feeling of holding a physical newspaper in front of me, just like I did when I was a kid....
View ArticleThe 64 Bit Application Conundrum
The 64 bit application conundrum. 64 bit programs utilize memory more efficiently, they use more of it, and help you work faster. But have you ever tried to integrate 64 bit applications with a...
View ArticleThe Dashboard Primer
The 2011 Sleeter Group Accounting Solutions Conference was an incredible showcase of what is to come in our profession. How to use the IPad, cloud accounting implementations with new perspectives on...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Tool for Business Analytics
The process of laying out the right combination of meaningful numbers or business metrics is part art and part science. It requires an understanding of the business, knowledge of the application(s)...
View ArticleInformation – Public or Not Public?
I was reading my Wall Street Journal last week (yeah, the hold in my hand paper type) and I ran across an article that discussed information and type of information should be divulged to employees and...
View ArticleCreatures of Habit
Creatures of habit and the comfort zone. I have consistently opined about the varied ways that business look at their data, and I find the enigma of human behavior fascinating when it comes to ‘how and...
View ArticleThe Right Employee for the Job
When I ask retired business owners or entrepreneurs (I wonder in this economy, if there is such a thing) what was the one thing they didn’t miss about their business – one answer sticks out: “dealing...
View ArticleMadness – or Good Business
I happen to live in a small city outside of Houston, bordered by several very small towns. Years ago, I catered to the businesses in these small towns with a variety of accounting and technology...
View ArticleThe Current State of Cloud Computing
My most recent post, Madness – or good business, spurred more private and public responses to my inbox than anything I have written in the last three years – COMBINED. There were two things I did not...
View ArticleElection Results and the Pro-Advisor Community
The election results are a perfect starting point to the premise of my article – things and people have changed, and we need to watch and listen carefully to the effects of these changes as they relate...
View ArticleThe Report is Dead
Not only is the traditional report, as we know it, dead, but so are a lot of other tools that many people of my generation have known and used to become informed or use to run their business and life....
View ArticleThe Demise of the QuickBooks Third Party Developer?
I remember the first Intuit developer-Pro Advisor conference in San Francisco back in 2002, where I started friendships that have lasted throughout the decade. I remember meeting Bonnie Nagayama and...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s New Business Intelligence Strategy
The promise of the cloud has literally engulfed the forward thinking ideals of the practitioner community, yet there is still advanced desktop technology that exist under the radar – some of it very...
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