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Balancing the books for a small business can be a time-consuming and challenging task, but the right accounting software will revolutionize your processes through simplification and automation, allowing your team to..
TOPICS: Small Business, accounting software, Architects
Engineering work is complex and ever-changing, so engineers need to be adaptable and up to date to ensure they remain on schedule and within budget. Technology like engineering project management software helps firms..
TOPICS: Engineers, Project Management Software, Architecture and Engineering, Engineering Firm
I recently got my hands on an advance copy of a new survey coming from the American Institute of Architects entitled Technology, Culture, and the Future of the Architecture Firm. If you’re realizing that there’s just..
TOPICS: Firm Management, Technology, New Technology, Business of Architecture
The faster that time-based billing goes away, the better we will all be. If you saved a client $10,000 during just a 15-minute conversation, because of your expertise, does that mean that your advice was worth only a..
TOPICS: Services, Value Pricing
Doing payroll can be a chore, and has the potential for costly penalties when done improperly. The challenges are greater for some types of businesses than others. For instance, retailers and hospitality businesses..
TOPICS: Payroll
Even in the age of Instagram and Facebook company pages, yes… your firm definitely still needs a website. In a previous article I covered a few tips on maintaining an effective website in ways that can be affordable..
TOPICS: Best Practices
Doing payroll can be a chore, and has the potential for costly penalties when done improperly. The challenges are greater for some types of businesses than others. For instance, retailers and hospitality businesses..
TOPICS: Payroll
Even in the age of Instagram and Facebook company pages, yes… your firm definitely still needs a website. In a previous article I covered a few tips on maintaining an effective website in ways that can be affordable..
TOPICS: Best Practices
“My clients won’t pay for advisory services.” This is the number excuse used by firms who resist making the shift from traditional services to advisory. Faced with pushback from clients who don’t like to pay by the..
TOPICS: Service, Accounting
As if the economic turmoil caused by the covid pandemic wasn’t enough, businesses and accounting firms face another increasing threat. Although ransomware is not new, it sure has been in the news a lot lately. The..
Accounting firms are in a period of greater transformation than ever before. Prior to Covid, firms were already moving to more flexibility in remote work, and the pandemic obviously increased that. Dramatically. Many..
TOPICS: Professional Services, Accounting
Over the last year and a half, accounting firms and businesses around the world – as well as nearly everyone else – were faced with unprecedented challenges. But although the pandemic certainly wreaked havoc on..
TOPICS: Professional Services, Best Practices, Accounting
In late August, BQE Software Australia teamed up with Steve Burns FAIA, Chief Creative Officer at BQE Software, and Michael Lewarne, Architect + Coach at unmeasured to discuss how architects can be both great at..
While it’s easy to get motivated for accounts receivable, because that’s where the incoming revenue is, it’s not as fun to wrangle with the accounts payable process. However, AP is just as critical to the business,..
TOPICS: Time & Expense
It’s human nature that you remember more details of something that actually happened the same day. The best way to ensure that your time tracking reports are accurate is for your employees to enter time every day.
