BQE Guest Blogger: Leslie Shiner—author, speaker, and trainer—has more than twenty-five years of experience as a financial and management consultant. She is the owner of The ShinerGroup, a consulting firm helping businesses gain financial control. Thanksgiving is over, the...
Steven Burns, FAIA was Managing Principal of Burns + Beyerl Architects for 15 years before selling the firm to pursue a career in software where he developed ArchiOffice and EngineerOffice. In 2009, BQE Software acquired Steve’s software company. He...
Your accounting software is the financial foundation of your firm. Yet many firms change at a pace faster than their accounting system. And because of this, they often fail to realize they’re using an outdated accounting software system that...
The professional services landscape is becoming increasingly complex and interconnected. And as more people and things connect, we’re creating vast, new digital footprints. If firms want to thrive, they must make sense of this big, fast-moving data. Data can...
According to The Access Group, capturing time/costs against projects is one of the biggest project management challenges firms face. What’s more, 80% of project management executives don’t know how their projects align with their company’s business strategy, according to...
When creating estimates, you must take into account the full spectrum of requirements, including the actual cost of employing a staff member aside from the salary the employee earns. If you don’t calculate labor burden your chance of profitability...
What could you do with an extra 120 days a year? According to this Sweating the Small Stuff report, a study that was carried out with 3000 SMEs across 11 countries, small businesses spend an average of 120 days...
BQE Guest Blogger: Bob Wolff is an accountant-turned-Channel Manager at BQE Software who helps to offer consulting and software solutions for BQE customers. He likes to share his business expertise here on the blog whenever he can. Leaking revenue, both...
52% of the Department of Defense contractors are SMBs, according to Grant Thornton’s Government Contract Survey. While government contract work can be lucrative, it can also be daunting if you aren’t up to date on Defence Contract Audit Agency...
QuickBooks has been the leader in accounting software for many years. It’s so easy to use, the company says anyone can use it. While that sounds good, it’s not really the case. Since QuickBooks was designed as a package...