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Accounting/Timekeeping Software
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Our (large) firm uses BST, but I believe it is very pricey.
Whatever you do, make sure the software you choose is 100% integrated with Windows and MS Ofiice software. My former employer used Filepro, which was a stand-alone software, on a DOS platform. You couldn't copy and paste into or from Word or Excel, which, of course, is what the employees used for their own data organization. We all ended up each week printing out our timesheets from Excel, giving them to a secretary who (I pitied her) would hand key all the data back into Filepro...for 50+ employees! She estimated she waste about a day every week (ie, 1/5 of her work hours) doing what should have been several minutes worth of database merge.
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Whatever you do, make sure the software you choose is 100% integrated with Windows and MS Ofiice software. My former employer used Filepro, which was a stand-alone software, on a DOS platform. You couldn't copy and paste into or from Word or Excel, which, of course, is what the employees used for their own data organization. We all ended up each week printing out our timesheets from Excel, giving them to a secretary who (I pitied her) would hand key all the data back into Filepro...for 50+ employees! She estimated she waste about a day every week (ie, 1/5 of her work hours) doing what should have been several minutes worth of database merge.
Engineering is the practice of the art of science - Steve
My company uses SAP. I find it pretty straight forward to use but I only really use it for timesheets. But I understand it is quite powerful.
We use it here for all the accounting, tracking assets plant and equipment, Time recording against projects and i believe they also use it for budgetting/forecasting. And no doubt stuff I have no idea about.
Have no idea of the cost of it though.
We use it here for all the accounting, tracking assets plant and equipment, Time recording against projects and i believe they also use it for budgetting/forecasting. And no doubt stuff I have no idea about.
Have no idea of the cost of it though.
We use Billquick. FOr employees at a workstaiton without it, they use their Palm to input time and then download to the database. BQ says it will integrate with Quickbooks. We keep files separate.
Check past threads-this has been discussed before.
Check past threads-this has been discussed before.
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