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A Guide to Business Process Assessment and System Selection 

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

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 […]

Wendy Smith Earns Netsuite ERP Consultant Certification

Wendy Smith Earns Netsuite ERP Consultant Certification

AAFCPAs is pleased to announce that Wendy Smith, CPA, Consulting CFO, Process & Systems has earned the Netsuite ERP Consultant Certification, which offers AAFCPAs’ clients accredited, expert-level NetSuite support. This certification enables faster and smoother NetSuite implementations, the seamless addition of functionality and modules, and the easy adoption of new releases. Additionally, it ensures that […]

Client Success Story: Global Nonprofit Saves 800+ Hours of Manual Data Input Annually with Automation
Robotic Process Automation helping streamline tasks

Client Success Story: Global Nonprofit Saves 800+ Hours of Manual Data Input Annually with Automation

Discover how our innovative robotic process automation (RPA) solutions transformed our client’s payroll operations, delivering unprecedented efficiency and accuracy—an essential read for any organization looking to streamline processes and boost productivity. Client Success Story AAFCPAs’ client, a regional branch of a global nonprofit, relied on a manual payroll maintenance process when capturing employee status changes […]

AAFCPAs Provides the Technical Blueprint To Unite a Portfolio of Vertically Integrated Entities
Client Success Story - Financial Software Overhaul

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

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 […]

AI Risks: Establishing Workplace Guidelines 2024
AI Risks Establishing Workplace Guidelines

AI Risks: Establishing Workplace Guidelines 2024

AI Risks: Establishing Workplace Guidelines | Webinar OnDemand Watch AAFCPAs’ business intelligence, cybersecurity, and information risk management leaders for an informed discussion on AI risks in the workplace, from algorithm manipulation to misinformation, privacy safeguards, and transparency. Learn ways to mitigate risk by pairing AI-powered tools with human empathy, imagination, and forward-thinking capabilities. Future-proof your […]

Microsoft Discontinues Dynamics Great Plains Support

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
Intuit Discontinues QuickBooks Desktop Service

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 […]