Microsoft FRx has been around the block a few times. This financial reporting and analysis software sprung out of its namesake, FRx Software Corporation, way back in 1991. Just to put that birthday in perspective, here are a few other things that happened in 1991: After the Internet became available for unrestricted commercial use, the […]
Microsoft has announced that all support for Windows XP will end on April 8, 2014. If you’re still running this version after support officially ceases and desists, you won’t receive technical support or important security updates for your Windows software. Since Windows XP is the second most common version of the Windows operation system, you stand […]
A recent survey from the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada) shows that managing and retaining data tops the list of technology priorities for North American accounting firms. Lately we’ve seen exponential increases in both the volume and the complexity of information in the accounting industry. As volume […]
Accounting Web posted an excellent article today highlighting the fact that “nearly two-thirds of finance departments in US companies and one-half in Canadian companies are still using a manual accounting system.” Accounting Web learned this surprising tidbit from the recently published fourth annual report from the Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF) and Robert Half, Benchmarking […]
A report issued by the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General has concluded, through a series of thorough audits, that the USPS suffers from a bad case of poor data governance. Like many public sector entities, the USPS is struggling along with the national economy. Yet as one of the largest IT infrastructures in […]
