‘The check is in the mail.’ It’s a cliché, but it’s a reality for a lot of businesses. It’s also costly and inefficient, which is why we’re focusing on how to improve your payment processes with Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) in Dynamics GP 2013.

Small businesses produce big numbers. If you’re a small business owner, you know how important your success is to the local economy. In 2012, Industry Canada reported that 100,000 new small businesses were created between 2002 and 2008. Not only that, small businesses represent 48 per cent of the private sector labour force.

SmartList Designer has been included in Dynamics GP 2013 and allows users to create reports based on tables found in Dynamics GP or other third-party software applications. You can create new SmartLists, copy an existing SmartList, or modify the SmartList you created.

Microsoft works hard to give users more efficient software with each new service pack (SP) it releases. These improvements provide you with added features that help improve productivity and make your workday easier.

Checking your books before making an important financial decision is a good business practice. When doing so, it’s important to ask if your profit margin is OK and if you can afford to take on the proposed project.

If you’re a Windows XP user and unaware that support for Windows XP will end in less than six months, take this message to heart: Your computer is six times more likely to be hacked if you’re using Windows XP.

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 SP2 is full of new features that further complement already excellent ERP software. The Dynamics GP 2013 Web Client and desktop versions were both updated in order to help users be more productive and flexible with where and how they want to work.

Managing business growth effectively can be very time-consuming. Growth sounds like a good problem to have, but it comes with its own set of challenges. Adding employees, suppliers and vendors, and a growing list of customers can potentially overwhelm your accounting software, but here’s the trick; it doesn’t have to.

The word “surprise” is generally a word to avoid when it comes to your business’s accounting books. But many basic accounting software programs, QuickBooks included, allow any user to log in and edit data without restriction or an audit trail.