Accounting & Finance

Q&A With Angus Thomson of Intuit: Why QuickBooks Makes Sense

June 18, 2008 | Competitors claim that thriving companies outgrow QuickBooks, but Intuit sees the different levels of QuickBooks scaling to meet the needs of growing businesses. And, more features are in the works.
By Benjamin Tomkins

Q&A With Mike Braun Of Intacct: When Your Business Outgrows QuickBooks

June 18, 2008 | Growing businesses need financial software that will scale with their needs. Intacct strives to fill the need beyond Intuit's QuickBooks and compete with on-premise offerings from the likes of Microsoft and Sage with a software-as-a-service offering.
By Benjamin Tomkins

Security 101: Layer 1 Is the Loneliest Number

May 23, 2008 | Network security is complex, but it starts at two simple places: the hardware and human levels. Jimmy Ray explains how USB ports, keyboard loggers, Bluetooth, and more can make your smaller business vulnerable -- and how to protect it
By Jimmy Ray Purser, Courtesy of Cisco

SLIDESHOW: bMighty Q&A Gallery: Leaders Talk IT for Smaller Business

May 21, 2008 | Leading executives, managers, and experts share their insights and perspectives with bMighty on a host of issues, challenges, and opportunities important to smaller businesses
By Benjamin Tomkins

Government Regulations Bog Down Smaller Businesses

May 5, 2008 | In developing regulations intended to thwart miscreants, the government's often a step behind. Smaller businesses often strain to comply with new regulations spurred by the misdeeds of the dot-com boom
By Paul Korzeniowski

Payment Fraud Protection in an Electronic Age

March 5, 2008 | Whether your smaller business makes payments electronically or not, it's still vulnerable to electronic payment fraud. You need to know how to protect your business' account. From tools to best practices, here's how
By Mary Schaeffer, courtesy of CPA Insider

Payroll and HR for Smaller Businesses: New Services Can Save Time and Money

February 12, 2008 | Outsourcing human resources and payroll functions may no longer be cost effective or even more productive for small and midsize companies. Between electronic deposit and Web-based features, bringing those services in-house is beginning to make more and more sense
By Randolph Johnston, Courtesy of CPA Insider

Coupa Pours e-Procurement Solution for Smaller Businesses

December 12, 2007 | Coupa Software's online purchasing system can save small and midsize companies up to 10 percent a year says its CEO
By Cora Nucci

Are You Ready to Outsource?

September 24, 2007 | There are plenty of good reasons to put some IT functions in a service provider's hands. But is your small or midsize business up to the challenges required to make outsourcing work?
By Jennifer Zaino

Check the Specs: Flat-Screen Monitors

September 5, 2007 | Flat-screen monitors are incredibly inexpensive, boost productivity, and are generally better for the environment than older displays. Here's a rundown of what to look for
By Alan Zeichick

8 Steps of Telecommuting

August 15, 2007 | Telecommuting can increase productivity and save your company money. It can also be risky. Here's how to find the right balance between benefit and risk.
By Jimmy Ray Purser, Courtesy of Cisco

8 Strategies for First-Rate Customer Service

August 15, 2007 | Good customer service starts with meeting customer needs: a trouble-free shopping experience and a smooth business transaction. Increasingly, it's also about anticipating and meeting their desires
By Eric J. Adams, Courtesy of Cisco

Viral Marketing Simplified

August 15, 2007 | One in five of businesses that advertise online will try viral marketing this year. Here's what you need to know to join them.
By Fred Sandsmark, Courtesy of Cisco

10 Tips for Increasing Operational Efficiency

August 15, 2007 | To remain competitive, businesses must boost operational efficiency wherever possible. It's particularly important for SMBs to operate efficiently, because they often have more limited resources than larger enterprises.
By James A. Martin, Courtesy of Cisco

Planning for Disaster

August 15, 2007 | What would your company do if half of its workforce couldn't get to work for days or weeks? What would happen if remote access to apps and data, and the ability to communicate with other employees, customers, partners, and suppliers were unavailable or impaired?
By Gene Knauer, Courtesy of Cisco

Expand Your Business with IP Communications

August 15, 2007 | Some small and medium-sized businesses view global expansion as a "daunting task." Others see IP communications as a way to overcome those limitations
By James A. Martin, Courtesy of Cisco

How Personalization Drives Growth

August 15, 2007 | Nothing has the potential to increase a company's revenues and enhance customer loyalty in today's ultra-competitive marketplace like personalization
By Michael Astle, Courtesy of Cisco

Growing to Scale

August 14, 2007  | Jill Bamburg, dean of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, describes how appropriate financing can help you maintain your mission as you grow.
Courtesy of Cisco Systems

Green MBA Programs

August 14, 2007  | Rebecca Bell of The Presidio School of Management outlines the growing trend of teaching finance, management, and accounting through a lens of sustainability.
Courtesy of Cisco Systems

Beware Public Computers

August 14, 2007  | Public computers, such as those in hotel business centers, pose a unique set of dangers to mobile workers. Cleaning the cache to cover your tracks when you're done just won't cut it.
Courtesy of Cisco Systems

Anything to Declare?

August 13, 2007  | When mobile workers come back from the road, be sure they haven't brought back any unwanted souvenirs before you give them full access to all your office network resources.
Courtesy of Cisco Systems

Beware the "Evil Twin" Attack

August 13, 2007  | Your "evil twin" could be lurking wherever you connect from the road, just waiting to steal your data. Learn how to fight back.
Courtesy of Cisco Systems

Your Top 5 Mobile Worries

August 13, 2007  | Pardon me, your data leaking. And that's only one of your problems. Tune in for the rest of the most common threats to mobile workers.
Courtesy of Cisco Systems

Survive and Thrive in an Untrusted Zone

August 13, 2007  | Anything outside the office is an untrusted zone. How can workers stay mobile, stay productive, and stay safe if "encryption sucks," as Cisco's Jimmy Ray Purser believes?
Courtesy of Cisco Systems

8 Sure-Fire Ways to Beat a Security Audit

July 9, 2007 | Experts share tips on how to avoid the most common pitfalls in an audit
By Dark Reading Staff, Courtesy of DarkReading