Microsoft Great Plains Implementation: Placement/Recruiting Agency example ? overview for consultant
Microsoft Great Plains does wonderful ERP job for horizontal markets and clientele. However in our opinion placement software market is underserved and needs custom modules to be developed. In the case of Microsoft Great Plains we see numerous examples of in-house or outsourced customization done for Great Plains Dynamics/Microsoft Great Plains in order to automate placement agency workflow and processes. In our opinion Great Plains is good choice, considering the side of placement and recruiting companies: mid-size or even small. Let us give you highlights from our consulting practice.?Full-Featured custom placement business system.
Technically Great Plains gives you functionality to develop integrated custom application, where you could build custom logic, extending Great Plains Receivables Management, Payables Management and other modules. You could implement complex recruiter commissioning schema, based on number of months of the placed employee work, etc. This is the most typical case ? placement agency contracts Great Plains VAR to implement their custom Business Management System.?Payroll Outsourcer. If you do payroll outsourcing ? this is popular customization for Microsoft Great Plains. You usually have to create new Great Plains company for your client ? who is typically placement agency?Executive Search.
The best fit in Microsoft Great Plains is Project Accounting. You usually have something like Microsoft CRM implemented to log your calls to prospective candidates and you log your expenses against project in Microsoft Great Plains Project Accounting.?Reporting. In the old days you had to deploy Great Plains Software Dexterity reports to do the job over your custom Dexterity tables. Today you should consider simplification and deploying Crystal Reports, working on Microsoft SQL Server custom views and stored procedures. Consider phasing out Dexterity customization and replacing it with MS SQL Server integration, Crystal Reports, direct web publishing from Microsoft Great Plains company tables?Commission Calculation.
In our opinion the old Dexterity-based commission calculation mechanisms should be replaced with Crystal Reports or Microsoft SQL Server triggers (when customer pays invoice, which is subject to commission)We encourage you to analyze your alternatives. You can always appeal to our help, give us a call: 1-866-528-0577 or 1-630-961-5918, help@albaspectrum.com.
Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer at Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http://www.albaspectrum.com ), serving Microsoft Great Plains, CRM, Navision to mid-size and large clients in California, Illinois, New York, Georgia, Florida, Texas, Arizona, Washington, Minnesota, Ohio, MichiganBusiness Tax Loophole: Leasing Assets To Your Corporation
While there are many equally valid reasons to incorporate, saving money on taxes is a consideration that can yield relatively immediate results.
Leasing assets to your corporation is a tax strategy you should absolutely consider if you already have a corporation or are thinking about forming one.
Here's how it works.Just because you incorporate doesn't mean that the corporation must own all of the assets it uses.
In fact there are many legal, tax and financial considerations for NOT having your corporation own its own assets. Leasing assets to your corporation is a perfectly legal and advantageous way to reduce your overall tax liability.
When you lease assets to your corporation, the business pays a lease or rental payment and you in turn claim the lease or rental income. By doing this, you as the lessor get to deduct items such as acquisition interest, depreciation, repairs and maintenance, insurance and administrative costs.
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Committed To The Business Backstage
Norwalk, CT (ContentDesk) September 10, 2005 -- Perfect Software, the leading provider of Human Resource and Payroll Management Systems, today announced its sponsorship of the famous SoNo "green room," which provides a catered retreat for festival performers. "We know how hard it can be to keep the show going on," said Michael Gabriele, president of PerfectSoftware. "Our main business is helping HR and payroll professionals keep performance standards high for their employers with our PerfectHR and PerfectPayroll solutions. We think of our cutting edge software as providing a retreat for our customers from the worries and hassles of traditional outsourcing. So sponsoring the green room, which provides a welcome place of relief and restoration for the talented performers at SoNo, was the perfect opportunity for us to give back to our local community." PerfectSoftware, headquartered in Connecticut, has many employees involved in civic groups that participate in SoNo.
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Confused about the new Department of Labor's FLSA regulations? You're not alone.
(ContentDesk) June 19, 2004 -- To assist companies in understanding the new rules, the Trillium Consulting Group is sponsoring a teleconference "The New FLSA Regulations - What You Need to Know!" on June 30, 2004 1:00 - 2:00 PM EST.In this teleconference, companies will have the chance to hear from Brian Farrington, the author of Wage-Hour Compliance, published in 1995 by Warren, Gorham and Lamont. Mr. Farrington spent twelve years with the United States Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, working in Chicago, Ft. Worth and Dallas. For five years, he was the Assistant District Director in the Dallas District Office.
He was directly in charge of Wage-Hour enforcement in the Dallas area, and he supervised some 5,000 investigations. As President of Harry Weisbrod Associates,Inc, a well-known Wage-Hour consulting firm, Brian devotes his skills and experience to assisting employers. In this informative teleconference, companies will learn about the new rules for Executive,...
Confused about the new Department of Labor's FLSA regulations? You're not alone.
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Payroll Check Tutorial for Students
(ContentDesk) April 27, 2006 --
I did not have a good tool to teach the ins and outs of a paycheck when I taught Introduction to Business said Charles J Read, President of Custom Payroll Associates, Inc. the parent of PayrollonaBudget.com.
I taught as a volunteer at Lake Dallas High School teaching Introduction to Business for four years.
I was always looking for better tools.
The banks do a great job with kits for checking accounts but I couldnt find a comparable tool for paychecks.
So I created one.
Lorinda Holland and Monica Blaylock along with other educators helped create the site specifically for students to use.The tutorial takes a student through all of the steps of income, deductions and taxes that go into a paycheck.
The tutorial lets the student do numerous what ifs, change the rate, hours and deductions or go from desired netpay back to number of hours required to be worked to achieve that netpay.This is PayrollonaBudget.coms...
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White Paper Provides Benchmarked Benefits Administration Costs Using Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Model
MARIETTA, Georgia (ContentDesk) January 9, 2006 -- Sourcing Analytics, Inc. (www.sourcinganalytics.com), a leading provider of HR, payroll and benefits consulting services, today announced the results of the first-ever comprehensive study on the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for health and welfare benefits administration.
The study was conducted by Sourcing Analytics, an independent consulting firm specializing in the evaluation of HR service delivery.
The study captured the TCO of benefits administration for 36 companies, all with more than 1,000 employees, and provides never before published benchmark data comparing companies that outsource benefits administration to those that keep the responsibility in-house.
TCO was defined as the total costs, direct and indirect, related to the design, implementation and ongoing management of health and welfare benefits administration.Key study findings include:"????Organizations...
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Safety Incentive Programs
Almost every organization is faced with the necessity of laying off employees for lack of work. Some layoffs are temporary and are expected by employees because of the nature of the job. These layoff can be planned for and may not be serious. In contrast, a change in operations or decline in business necessitates permanent layoffs. All of these involve employee separation from the organization.
Separation may also arise from employee resignations and retirement.
Layoff can be defined as an indefinite separation from the payroll due to factors beyond the control of the individual. The causes of layoff include decline in sales, shortage of raw materials, market fluctuations, delays in production and displacement caused by technology. Layoff is a temporary separation when it is initiated by an employer. But some times, it turns out to be permanent when production never picks up. Layoff is considered to be a serious issue because of the involvement of human sentiments...
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