What this world needs is an excellent job costing program that tracks hours and dollars by multiple layers of work in a project or multiple projects. Did you ever wonder just how much money was spent on the sheetrock [...]
Why isn’t Accounting Software taught at business schools? The ivy tower of ignorance Recently Plus & Minus hired an accountant who just graduated from a large public university in the Houston area. This person had a very thorough 4-year education [...]
Why did IBM spend money on March 22 and May 5, 2022, to buy full-page ads in the WSJ to solicit you to allow IBM to get your data out of your data silos? I have a better idea: don’t [...]
What is up with the cost of accounting software? We have gotten inquiries from people who are starving for accounting data but can’t get it from the usual suspects, such as QuickBooks, Xero, etc. We usually start off by [...]
Attention Accountants and Bookkeepers! Do you have clients who send money to QuickBooks every month? Have you given any thought to being a competitor to QuickBooks and having the clients send money to you instead? Take a look at [...]
Plus & Minus has been making 3-pointers before the 3-point rule was adopted by the NBA. How did Plus & Minus become the accounting software of the Houston Rockets? One day in 1983, the phone rang. It was an [...]
What do you call a company that produces 210 invoices a year, issues 337 PO’s a year, executes jobs that require a ream of paper for specs, and yet has NOT ONE FILE CABINET? One of our customers. Every [...]
What is the Chart of Accounts? It is a listing of all the accounts where you will record the inputs and outputs of money. Consider an account as a bucket. You can pour money into a bucket and you [...]
This was a geeky thing to do, but it was fun. It was a dark and stormy lunch hour in 2018, the perfect weather to bring in lunch, which we did. Somebody was discussing the issue of Sales Tax [...]
I remember reading in the 90s that the businesses that deal with inventory will soon be out of business because of the cost of carrying inventory. The future was in being a service-oriented company. And if you’ve hired a [...]
