Robyn Leet
A Guide to Business Process Assessment and System Selection
A business process assessment is the first step in identifying, addressing, and solving inefficiencies that may hold back performance and productivity within your organization. Successful, growing organizations often find themselves over-reliant on Excel for data management, facing reporting delays, lacking real-time insights, struggling with data processing and intensive reconciliations between systems, or closing late due […]
Why a Business Process Assessment is Essential for Successful System Implementation
While it is more instant gratification to skip analysis before selecting the pretty new system with fancy bells and whistles, this may lead to poor fit, high cost, security exposures, downtime, disruption, issues with scalability, and long-term vendor dependance. Employees may also feel resistant to change and frustrated by the new system right off the […]
Seminar Recap: Unlocking the CFO’s Role in Digital Transformation
During AAFCPAs’ recent Nonprofit Seminar (April 2024), Robyn Leet and Joyce Ripianzi, CPA briefed approximately 400 attendees on ways CFOs can unlock digital transformation within their organization. The full session was recorded and may be viewed as a webcast at your convenience. >> Faced with resource constraints, nonprofit organizations are driven to keep operations lean […]
AAFCPAs Provides the Technical Blueprint To Unite a Portfolio of Vertically Integrated Entities
When a multifaceted and rapidly expanding energy resource company grew to the point that it was challenged to maintain its general ledger, client billing, and project management functions, the company was faced with a choice. It would need to either hire additional personnel or pursue digital transformation. But digital transformation required time, dedication, and insight […]
Unlocking the CFO’s Role in Digital Transformation 2024
Unlocking the CFO’s Role in Digital Transformation | Webinar OnDemand Watch AAFCPAs’ Fractional CFOs and Business Process Architects as they embark on a journey to empower attendees with actionable insights and strategies to enhance their finance function. Given the CFO’s pivotal role in driving efficiency and data-informed insight, we’ll help attendees set the stage for […]
Microsoft Discontinues Dynamics Great Plains Support
AAFCPAs would like to make clients aware that Microsoft is discontinuing support for its Dynamics Great Plains software. Sunset of its mainstream support began in 2020, with extended support slated to phase out by 2028. While the system will not vanish completely, users may begin to find that select integrations and/or functions cease to perform […]
Intuit Discontinues QuickBooks Desktop Service
AAFCPAs would like to make clients aware that, as of May 31, 2024, QuickBooks Desktop 2021 will be discontinued. This includes all 2021 versions of QuickBooks Desktop Pro, QuickBooks Desktop Premier, QuickBooks Desktop for Mac, and QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions v21. Clients who fail to upgrade by this date will no longer have access to live […]
Budgeting Software Features for Those Who Love Excel
CFOs and accountants will rightfully admit that Excel has its limitations. Consider the time involved in complex calculations, manual report generation, and meticulous data input due to the inability to download data directly from the bank. Still, despite its limitations, what keeps users loyal to Excel is the joy in working with spreadsheets. But business […]
Have you outgrown your general ledger system?
Making the switch from a general ledger to a customized enterprise solution can notably advance operations by offering improved efficiencies and accuracy along with the freedom in being untethered from complicated third-party software integrations. This holds especially true when less sophisticated financial reporting, forecasting, and analysis solutions begin to hold you back from optimal growth. […]