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Are Your Revenues Increasing, But Not Your Profits?

If the 9th Annual Integration Business Outlook  presented by CI and NSCA is any indication, integrators will be focused on increasing profitability in 2019. Some of the biggest takeaways of the CI 2019 State of the Industry report are that … Read More

Video Demo 4 – Q360 Simplifies Project Change Orders

There’s no such thing as an AV project with a change order, right? In this edition of Clear Talk, we continue with the topic of project management. A big part of project management is focusing on the equipment, material, and … Read More

Video Demo 3 – How to Monitor Project Profitability with Q360

In this edition of Clear Talk, Tofiq Indawala shows us how to monitor project profitability in Q360. First of all, who needs to look at project profitability data? Typically, the accounting team, executives, as well as the sales team and … Read More

A Fresh Look at Your Accounting

Why you may (or may not) need to hire a new CFO / Accountant A blog entry based upon The AV Profession podcast with Tim Albright and guest David McNutt from Navigate Management Consulting When we go into an organization to conduct an … Read More

VTI Security Controller Talks about the Ease of Year End with Q360

VTI Security has been using Q360 for just over one year. Prior to that, the company had been using Dynamics Great Plains for roughly 20 years. According to LInda Larish, Controller at VTI Security, with Great Plains, the month-end process … Read More

8 Surprising New Profit Killers for Integrators to Watch For

  As we speak to members and answer their questions, we tend to notice patterns. Recently, NSCA has been talking to integrators  about “profit killers” – things that help us lose money.   Do you fall prey to any of these? … Read More

Case Study: How Solutions360 helps SVT make better business decisions

Roman Burchart remembers the days when project costing at SVT was time-consuming and rife with tedium and murkiness. “We had very limited visibility into our actual project costing,” says Burchart, the Chief Operating … Read More

Measuring Business Performance

This is a guest post from David McNutt, Parter at Navigate Management Consulting Getting a solid handle on the performance of your business isn’t easy.  End of the month reports don’t help much because they just look backwards.  Effective managers … Read More

How Accurate is Your Data?

“Across our 10 branch offices, last quarter sales are up 7%, on average.” This statement tells you exactly nothing. But it sure sounds like good news in a management meeting. The problem is that seldom does anyone ask the right … Read More

Gaining an Edge: Don’t Tolerate Slow Financial Processes

++Referenced from Big Fat Finance Blog++ Mary Driscoll December 20th, 2010 The never-ending pursuit of cost reduction in financial management operations is all well and good — but do not overlook the negative impacts of slow process cycle times. APQC … Read More