Automated audits
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New Windows-based audit software have made data transfer and auditing easier. More and more audit firms are discovering the benefits of using audit software, which include increased efficiency and productivity and time conservation. Aside from automating most manual tasks, audit software can refoot the file, reperform the extension of quantity times cost and analyze the result as against the client's calculation in the inventory area. In the receivables area, audit software can re-age the accounts receivable outstanding items and compare it with the client's aging.
Publication Name: CA Magazine
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0317-6878
Year: 1996
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ERPs: a buyer's market. (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems
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Companies offering Enterprise Resource Planning are engaged in a tighter competition to lure middle-market companies, after giving due focus on large businesses. ERP allows the development of a compact integrated format that aligns a company's strategy, organizational structure, process and technology. Increased competition in enterprise-wide solutions is projected to result in lower prices, but ERP providers will face major challenges such as Y2K issues and the unified European currency.
Publication Name: CA Magazine
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0317-6878
Year: 1999
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Taxprep, take two
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Developers of the high-end tax software called Taxprep were faced with enormous challenges when they were tasked to move their product from a DOS application to a Windows-based platform. Their troubles began when the expected delivery data of the software was postponed for two weeks and was not good enough for electronic filing to Revenue Canada. Nevertheless, with the next tax season in 1996 approaching fast, the developers are promising to regain the confidence of customers.
Publication Name: CA Magazine
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0317-6878
Year: 1996
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