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 February 2009
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This month, the To mark this milestone for The Sleeter Group, I took some time to reflect on how we started and what we did to develop into the company you know today. We hope you will take a moment to read our story from 1994 to the present. In the last 15 years, I’ve met some remarkable people. I want to sincerely thank our members, our clients, our fantastic staff, our friends at Intuit and all of our QuickBooks add-on partners.
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David Horwitz, Sleeter Group Consultant Network (SGCN) Community Manager We at The Sleeter Group are continually striving to create new and expanded opportunities for our customers, including the members of our Sleeter Group Consultants Network. We are constantly investigating new VAR programs and other partnerships. Last month, we began a partnership with CPE Link to offer discounted webinars to our members. Our full schedule will be announced soon. In the coming months, we will be announcing some exciting additional VAR opportunities, enabling our members to expand their offerings and services. Our new Website has many added benefits for members and other customers of The Sleeter Group, such as more searchable content under the Find-a-Consultant page and a better layout of the member’s profile page. The “My SGCN Membership” page offers a consolidated list of membership benefits, including easy access to updating your member profile. As mentioned above, we’ve made significant improvements to the File Folders area. We’ve had a terrific response to our member surveys and want to thank all of you who took the time to offer feedback. These surveys help us fine tune the services we offer. Please contact us anytime we can be of assistance to you! And we wish you low stress over the next few months.
Doug Sleeter will present "Taking Your Practice Online" at the 2009 AICPA Practitioners Symposium – May 4-6, 2009 at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. AICPA Doug will discuss how Taking Your Practice Online can help you stay competitive in the technology-enabled global market. If you provide QuickBooks or other small business accounting software consulting services, this session is for you. Come and hear Doug’s roadmap for getting online, and thrive in your practice by providing more online services for your clients. Since Doug is an AICPA speaker, we are able to offer our clients a conference registration discount. Visit the conference website: AICPA Practitioners Symposium or call 888.777.7077 (Discount Code: "PEER"). Offer valid through April 1, 2009 Click here for Conference Brochure (PDF).
Mark Your Calendars and Plan to Attend the 2009 ASCC Conference in Orlando, Florida!The Conference registration will begin shortly after the 2009 tax season! Our 2008 Conference Exhibitor Webinar Series is Still Available. Miss the 2008 conference? You can still learn about some of the great solutions that were demonstrated in the Exhibit Hall. Join Doug Sleeter as he hosts a few of our 2008 Exhibitors in a series of free webinars. Watch them for FREE! Click here: 2008 Exhibitor Webinars. These Webinars are recorded and available to watch at your convenience. You do not need to have attended the conference to view these webinars! Questions? Please give us a call at 888-484-5484.
We asked members of The Sleeter Group Consultants Network (SGCN) to nominate recipients for the Magnificent Member Awards. There are five categories for these awards including Prolific Poster, Top Techie, Best Business Coach, Solution Sharer, and VAR Top Seller awards. We announced the winners at our 2008 conference. The winners in each category were:
In each of the next few newsletters we’ll bring you an interview with one of these award winners. This month, we interviewed Jeanne Tarazevits, winner of the Sleeter Group Prolific Poster Award. How would you describe your practice? How has the SGCN group benefitted your practice? What would you like to share with our readers? I’d like to thank everyone who voted for me. I had a rosy glow all evening after I got the award.
Manufacturing Information Systems (MISys, Inc.) has recently released a new module for its MISys® Small Business Manufacturing software product called Labor Tracking. The MISys SBM Labor Tracking module is intended to capture actual time spent by production workers and to log the actual time against MISys SBM jobs and manufacturing orders. “For many years, our sales force has had to field questions about how our software keeps track of the actual time spent on production orders.” said Dave Brown, President of MISys. “Until now, the answer has always been to record the time on a written timesheet, then manually transpose the entries into MISys SBM as dispense transactions for resource-type items.” Labor Tracking uses the same resource-type items representing various labor rates for production workers, but the software completely automates the collection and posting of labor quantities. The MISys SBM Labor Tracking software can be installed on any compatible computer where production time needs to be logged, whether that computer is on the company LAN, or across the Internet. Since Labor Tracking communicates directly with the MISys SBM Server module, there is no need to have the MISys SBM Client module installed for labor tracking. The labor tracking software maintains a list of employees whose work you wish to track. The software can launch a timer window for any employee; counting the hours, minutes, and seconds expired while the timer is active. When the task is completed and the window closed, Labor Tracker posts the expired time as a dispense resource transaction for the specified job or manufacturing order. “With Labor Tracking installed, users can be sure that their jobs and manufacturing orders reflect the cost of the actual labor expended on them. We think this is going to very popular with users who wish to compare estimated versus actual costs for their production orders” added Brown. MISys SBM Labor Tracking is compatible with MISys Small Business Manufacturing version 3.0 and above and has a suggested list price of $500. Sleeter Consultants who wish to purchase a license for their customers to use the Labor Tracking module should contact their MISys Customer Service at 802/457-4600. Further information about the product is available online at: www.misysinc.com or by contacting MISys World Headquarters in Woodstock, Vermont at 1-800-833-1500.
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Every Question: I just went to see a potential new client and I found the chart of accounts to be pretty interesting. Many of the accounts had a ? or a / between the account # and the account name. What would cause this and what do I need to do to fix it? Phil Warren replied: See if they might have an additional language set up in Windows. I had an Asian client that did not have English set up as the ‘master’ language and the Chart of Accounts looked as you described. Final Response: This is the Answer. Thank you, Phil! My client has QB Pro and the main language is not English. When I took the backup and restored on my computer, all was fine. Isn’t this interesting? This is just the best group ever.
The Sleeter Group Consultants Network is the nation’s premier accounting software consultant’s network. With over 600 members located throughout the US and Canada, our members serve over 150,000 small businesses. In addition to client consulting, many of our consultants provide consulting services to software developers who seek advice on the best practices for integrating their applications with QuickBooks and other accounting software products. To locate one of our certified consultants visit our Find a Consultant page. To learn more about becoming a consultant visit our Become a Consultant page or call our office at 888-484-5484. Members of the network receive a substantial discount on our resource products as well as our annual Accounting Software Consulting Conference. Membership also includes a copy of our Consultant’s Reference Guide.
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month Chuck Vigeant reveals a glimpse of the brand new Sales Performance Analyzer tool released last week to QuickBooks Enterprise Customers, and current non-Enterprise beta testers. Last year, Chuck was independently contracted by Intuit as a data architect, an expert in Business Objects technology, and a QuickBooks/Sybase data analyst; he worked with a team of Product and Production Managers, database engineers, asset design engineers, and Quality Assurance personnel that delivered the Business Analysis Offering. Here is his bird’s eye view of this brand new tool.
conferences are known for their top-rated speakers, timely program agendas, interactive workshops, practical training, first-rate materials, and superb networking opportunities. Mission Possible is the theme of this year’s event – with the right tools and ideas, it is possible to thrive in this economy. 
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