software

8 ways to wrestle software subscriptions into submission

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one question leads to another.

by donny c. shimamoto
intraprisetechknowlogies

budget talks between accounting and information technology departments can get pretty complicated. accountants know budgets; it folks know it. not many people know both.

related: it hardware gets even more complex (great!) | how accounting geeks and techie nerds can play nicely together

but you don’t have to know both if you know the right questions. one area of special concern is budgeting for subscriptions to software.

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the 4 dark clouds hovering over cloud accounting software

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and the two professional remedies you already know.

by frank stitely, cpa
stitely & karstetter pllc

cloud accounting software revolutionizes our relationships with our clients, enhancing our ability to provide real-time and forward-looking tax and accounting services. at the recently concluded sleeter conference in las vegas, cloud vendors promised zero data entry, the editing of transactions in spreadsheet format and seamless integration with best of breed third-party applications.

they didn’t mention, however, that their programmers redefine accounting principles by sacrificing sound internal control at the ease of use altar. before launching your clients into the accounting cloud, evaluate the risks currently ignored by many, if not most, cloud vendors. read more →

the big accounting software packages you need to know to get hired today

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quickbooks, oracle and sap dominate the want ads.

top accounting software for job seekers
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after tabulating about 500 job listings for accountants, new research shows that quickbooks skills are most in demand today, followed by oracle and sap.

not listed here, of course, is excel, which is a prerequisite for nearly all open accounting jobs today, according to  softwareadvice.com/accounting.

in the charts below, the big pie chart in the middle ranks the overall most-popular software packages:

  1. intuit: 27%
  2. oracle: 19%
  3. sap: 13%
  4. microsoft: 8%
  5. sage: 8%
  6. adp: 3%
  7. lawson: 2%

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