Understanding about Accounting

I’m not very good with accounting… and I’ve been looking for courses on accounting both in the real world and on the internet… I’ve found one that looks promising – Bionic Turtle…  It have a nice 11-minute overview of the financial statements.  It also have a Financial Statement Analysis that it says is a popular series that is referenced in several college curricula.

One thing that I keep hearing is when investing in stocks – look at the fundamentals… and I ask them what exactly am I looking for? How do I know when a company have good fundamentals? Well this should answer my questions: Fundamental Analysis: Introduction

I would be delving deeper into the informative site! Thanks David!

I think David Harper also uses Expression Engine on his site. And seems like we’re looking for similar thing – ecommerce on website. But he’s done it.

Maximizer 10

I’ve been looking at Maximizer for a long time now – this is for Customer Relationship Management or CRM. Last week, I found out that they have released Version 10 that links to Quickbooks as well as Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) and Blackberry and they have loads of other great new features – that have made me want to implement Maximizer CRM ASAP…

It comes in three editions – Group, Professional and Enterprise. Comparison here. Some quick notes on diff’t editions:

• Group uses SQL Express while Pro and Enterprise uses SQL Server
• Group Min 1 user and Max 15, Pro Min 5 user and Enterprise Min 10 User and latter 2 have unlimited maximum.
• Blackberry and windows mobile are add-ons to all edition while Palm device sync is standard to all (great as I use Treo 650)
• Customer self-service is add-on for all
• No Web Reporting for Group and included for others
• Microsoft SRS report only supported in Enterprise and Professional

Available in Enterprise:

• Territory management is only available in enterprise
• Automated fax and print campaing in enterprise only
• Real time alerts is included in Enterprise and add-on for the other versions
• Knowledgebase is standard with enterprise and add-on for the others
• For business activity monitoring and alerting, Enterprise have KnowledgeSync Lite included
• For out-of-the-box queries and events to monitor business, Enterprise have 40 included

Price: Around US$600 for each Group License. Ver 9 have the option for downloading a trial version, not so for ver. 10 ver. 10 trial version here. The users manual and installation manual are all available for download.

Some questions on my mind:

Upgrade Path is easy and affordable or not?

More to this later…

Business Card / Calling Card Design

Here’s a site with lots of unique Business Card design… for inspiration:

Creativebits