Project Accounting Best Practices

Wiki Definition: Project accounting (sometimes referred to as job cost accounting) is the practice of creating financial reports specifically designed to track the financial progress of projects, which can then be used by managers to aid project management. Other famously used BUZZ words for project accounting are: Construction In Progress accounting (CIP), CAR, Planning, etc. Typically, people…

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DSD Software Conference Afterglow

DSD Business Systems hosted its 2013 Software Conference on September 19th, and it was by our attendees’ account a huge success.  I would like to offer an immense thank you to our sponsors Sage North America, Website Pipeline, Altec and Terms on Time. The location, the Hilton Torrey Pines, was…

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DSD Software Conference 2013

DSD Business Systems will be hosting its 2013 Software Conference at the beautiful Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines on September 19th.  This user conference has been designed to be of great value to all Sage 100, Sage 300 and Sage 500 ERP end-users. Being a Hero One of my favorite…

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What is Sage Advisor?

Sage Advisor is a cloud product that will be available to all Sage ERP and CRM customers in the near future, and it is available to many now. The purpose of this exciting new product is: To provide personalized, proactive guidance to Sage customers that encourages optimum system usage via…

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How Legal Compliance Drives ERP Adoption

Many business factors drive ERP software adoption, not the least of which are the desire to control costs, to make better and more up-to-date information available to decision-makers, and to provide world-class customer service. But a new and important driver has surfaced in the past decade – the necessity to be in compliance with increased…

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The Top 3 Things to Consider Before Choosing an ERP Reseller

Part of my job as a front line sales person is to answer questions regarding DSD Business Systems.  I take multiple calls a week from potential customers “interviewing” DSD Business Systems and evaluating us for software and consulting services.  In response to these customer inquiries, I’ve compiled the top three…

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Sage Data in the Cloud – Q & A

An important takeaway from Sage Summit 2013 was learning more about the Sage Data Cloud (SDC).  The SDC is a cloud database that will store a portion of every Sage user’s data so that it can be accessed quickly by a variety of useful connected services, such as Sage Mobile…

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Not All Sage Fixed Assets Users Should be Created Equally

I have been performing many data conversions lately.  Mainly, it has been data that was in the Sage Fixed Assets Depreciation (formerly Sage FAS) and was outsourced. The biggest problems we are running into during our analysis and process is that those ‘outsourced’ professionals who are using the Sage Fixed Asset…

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