I recently read It’s Not About the Coffee: Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks by Howard Behar. It is no wonder why Starbucks has been so successful! In the book Read more…
Excel Scenario Manager
Microsoft Excel is an excellent planning tool for What-If Analysis, but did you know it has a Scenario Manager feature? Here’s a real life example: you are considering purchasing a new car and you Read more…
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
On December 22, 2017 President Trump signed the largest income tax change in thirty years. It is a complex bill with many changes, but for the most part taxpayers will be paying less taxes Read more…
Sage 300 Over Applied Cash Receipts
Sage 300 allows a user to apply a payment to invoices for more than the amount of the payment. A payment that is not fully applied, displays as a negative value on the A/R Read more…
Benford's Law
Benford’s Law I have been in accounting for forty years and I just recently learned about Benford’s Law. This law states that the first digit of number is much more likely to be a Read more…
Baby Boomers & Gen X, Data Changes, Do You?
In his book, The Age Curve, Kenneth W. Gronbach describes how many businesses made bad decisions because they expected the future to be just like the past. Gronbach is a demographer and explains how Read more…
Avoid Ransomware- Remove Former Users
Last year our company was hit by a ransomware virus and it took us about two days to recover. We thought we were well protected with our anti-virus program and other protective measures. After Read more…
30 years of Software Changes
An account of the software history from Michael Ericksen, WAC Solution Partners- Midwest When I started my company 30 years ago, the computer landscape was much different. Microsoft Windows existed, but it would not Read more…
Sage Summit 2016… A Great Opportunity
Sage Summit is a great opportunity for partners and customers to meet with the people who are creating our software. The conference is designed for small businesses even if they are not using Sage Read more…
Calculated Fields in Pivot Tables
I have previously written about the power of pivot tables in Microsoft Excel, but in this article I will expand on that power. Pivot tables are a great way to summarize data. Sage uses Read more…
