SUCCESSFUL FARMING MAGAZINE TO PROMOTE MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING THROUGH STORIES AND WORKSHOPS
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| Dan Looker,
Successful Farming Magazine Business Editor, announces an upcoming
series of articles and workshops on managerial accounting to attendees
of the 2007 FBS User Conference in Moline, Illinois earlier this
month. |
The 2007 FBS User Conference
participants were treated to a surprise announcement by Dan Looker, Successful
Farming Business Editor. The prominent farm magazine will be publishing
a series of six articles on managerial accounting. Four of those
will feature farmers' (including FBS e.CLIPSE
users) experiences with managerial accounting (MA), covering both their
frustrations and the benefits they've seen. The other two will be columns
by members of the Farm Financial Standards Council.
SF is also planning a series of meetings and workshops on MA. Tentatively
they will start with six evening dinners—likely in December, 2007—that
will include a talk by immediate past FFSC president Ron Swanson. "We
plan to follow up with three workshops of roughly a half-day, hopefully
in January," says Looker. (Past FFSC President and Texas A&M TEPAP instructor,
Dick Wittman, is tentatively scheduled to do the presentations.)
Asgrow is sponsoring the workshops, which will be open to anyone.
"I'm in complete agreement with the FFSC goals and methods on this project,"
Looker emphasizes. "We want to encourage the farmers and ranchers who
might benefit from MA to consider it, without hyping it, making it seem
too easy, or overstating the benefits. We would also be delighted if a
few farmers who have already shifted over to MA would attend to network
and share their experiences. I agree with Ron Swanson, Ev Chambers and
others who are concerned that the current run up in land and input costs
is going to take some farms and ranches under. As far as I'm concerned,
last year was a good time to start MA."
Watch for more details in upcoming Successful Farming articles or check
www.agriculture.com
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MISS THE USER CONFERENCE? DOWNLOAD PRESENTATIONS HERE
Click on the links below to download PDF copies of presentations from the FBS 2007 User Conference.
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Management consultant John McNutt describes how to "Git-R-Done" in a User Conference general session.
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Cheryl Brown, FBS Payroll support specialist, presents an overview of the upcoming CenterPoint Payroll upgrade in a breakout session.
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Boarding
the Celebration Bell prior to a relaxing dinner cruise on the
Mississippi River.
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Farm Financial
Standards Council Past President Ron Swanson updates FBS users
on the Council's latest recommendations.
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FBS SUPPORT LINE TIP
Here's a
tip for the fastest way to get through to a "live" person on the FBS support
line this time of year: Press #2 and leave a message in the support voice
mail box. Unless you enjoy listening to our local country music station,
you'll only delay receiving service by "camping out" on hold. We return
calls in the order they're received, prioritized by support plan (Corporate
and VIP first, then Priority, Basic and finally expired support contracts).
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Recently we dealt with a problem that was ongoing for several
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or the computer even would reboot. The program he was using
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application was the only software that triggered the problem
until suddenly other programs also began causing his computer
to reboot.
On that day, the outside temperature happened to be
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He called his local computer technician (hardware), and they
discovered that the cooling fan on his CPU wasn't working properly,
causing his CPU to overheat. The problem was solved by simply
fixing the cooling fan (and air conditioning his office).
More information can be found on computer processing temperatures
at www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/143.
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CLIENT'S CORNER
• In The News!
Carthage
Veterinary Service is dramatically expanding its outreach by acquiring
a 23-acre college campus in Carthage, Illinois. Read about this unique
new venture in the August 15, 2007 issue of National Hog Farmer or click
here to visit the the NHF website.
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