Topics: management accounting automation
"What is the value of this kind of information if I can get it delivered to me in a more integrated fashion?" |
Topics: farm management accounting, accrual accounting, Dick Wittman, farm financial standards council, TEPAP, farm enterprise analysis, QuickBooks for agriculture, farm financial software
Learn new farm management and marketing skills and network with other producers from around the country at the 2019 Farm Futures Business Summit
What practices should you change to improve your business? What habits should you break? Here’s an opportunity to learn how to make the necessary changes to stay on top of your business goals. You’ll get ideas that you can’t wait to implement – just one idea you get from this conference can pay you back in business benefits!
Over the course of two intense days (with some entertainment!) we’ll gather together for a series of keynotes, panel discussions and interactive power sessions that will make farm management come to life. Mingle with experts from across the country as they offer advice and answer questions.
We’ll give you solid ideas on everything from high-level grain marketing to the key business practices that will help you make more money in 2019. Plus, you’ll be networking with some of the best farmers on the planet.
The 2019 Farm Futures Business Summit takes place Jan. 24-25, 2019 at the Coralville Marriott Conference Center and Hotel just outside of Iowa City, Iowa. This event promises to help you think outside the box as you manage the ever-increasing complexity of today’s farm operations. FBS Systems is one of the sponsors and will host a display throughout the conference.
For more information or to register click here.
Topics: farm management accounting, agricultural managerial accounting, cash or accrual, farm financial standards council, integrated farm software
"If you’re struggling with a main street accounting program today, it might be time to reach out to a higher-level, farm-focused program for your business." So says Editor Willie Vogt in the April 2017 Farm Industry News cover story, "Raising Your Accounting Game."
Topics: farm management accounting, accrual accounting, farm financial reporting, ag software, farm accounting, integrated production and financial software, Quick Books
A previous installmentof Growth Path Accounting covered the Step Two question, "What are your information goals?" Before we go into an in-depth comparison of the methods, we're pausing to answer potential objections to this "GPS" accounting implementation strategy.
Topics: farm management accounting, farm financial statements, accrual accounting, farm financial reporting, enterprise analysis, agricultural inventories, cash or accrual, cost analysis
Topics: farm management accounting, cost accounting, farm financial statements, accrual accounting, farm financial reporting, agricultural managerial accounting, farm accounting, agricultural inventories, cost analysis, inventory valuation
Last month we reprised a series that was first published over 20 years ago documenting a proven process used by a generation of FBS users. While technology has advanced in quantum leaps, the growing complexity of farming operations requires the same core decision-making processes to select, implement and grow an accounting system.
The Assumptions Behind Growth Path Accounting
Topics: farm management accounting, accrual accounting, ag software, agricultural software, farm accounting, growth path accounting
Topics: farm management accounting, accrual accounting, farm records, farm software, ag software, farm accounting, growth path accounting, systems development for agriculture
Topics: accrual accounting, agricultural managerial accounting, agricultural software, Top Producer Magazine, activity-based costing, Farm CFO, integrated farm software
The November 2013 issues of Farm Futures Magazine is packed with valuable tips for guiding you to the financial future of your farm.
Topics: managerial accounting, farm management accounting, accrual accounting, agricultural managerial accounting, Top Producer Magazine, Dick Wittman, farm financial standards council, Danny Klinefelter, Farm Futures Magazine, Lance Woodbury, integrated software
Life's been good…and easy…for most crop producers in the past seven years. Changing conditions, though, will require a new emphasis on proven farm management accounting principles aided by 21st Century technologies.
Topics: cost accounting, agricultural managerial accounting, farm budgeting, farm mamanagement accounting, Dick Wittman, Farm Futures, farm cash flow projections
Two recent articles in the farm press validate how far farm management technology has come, yet how far it has yet to progress to make a serious business impact.
Topics: managerial accounting, farm management accounting, cost accounting, farm financial statements, accrual accounting, farm financial reporting, agricultural managerial accounting, farm inventories, farm records, farm software, ag software, agricultural decision support, business processes, agricultural software, farm accounting, enterprise analysis, precision farming
"The next generation of agricultural managers are asking how the industry can enable seamless data exchange between machines and Farm Management Information Systems. The costs of exchanging data are high due to the lack of common implementation guidelines, data transfer protocols, message standards, and standard reference data. Producers report that it is difficult or nearly impossible to move data from one system to another. To do so almost always requires data reentry, manual data transformation, and/or specialists to manage data."
Topics: farm management accounting, agricultural managerial accounting, farm inventories, ag software, agricultural decision support, agricultural software, agricultural inventories, agricultural compliance, farm
The PC industry has been in a funk this fall, not just from competition with tablets but also from waiting for the arrival of Windows 8. Now that Win8's the default operating system at "big box" stores and Windows 7 is getting harder to find on shelves which is your best option--especially if your goal is business applications rather than social networking?
Topics: farm financial reporting, farm records, farm software, ag software, business processes, agricultural software, farm accounting, FBS Systems, Windows 8, tablet computers
Topics: managerial accounting, cost accounting, farm financial statements, accrual accounting, agricultural managerial accounting, farm records, farm software, best practices, farm budgeting, agricultural inventories, activity-based costing, Dick Wittman
They're widely used to to slaughter sassy pigs with angry birds, but how well do tablets and smart phones work to manage actual production of pigs or crops?
Topics: farm records, farm software, ag software, agricultural inventories, ipad, dashboard, field data entry
You can count on the "Extra" edition of Farm Futures magazine to concentrate on relevant management topics. The 2012 edition, Power Up Profits, contains two articles that dovetail nicely with the objectives of FBS Software.
Topics: managerial accounting, farm management accounting, cost accounting, agricultural managerial accounting, activity-based costing, Mike Boehlje, Purdue Ag Economist
We ran across this AgTalk post by Mark Wilsdorf, who markets an add-on to Quickbooks for farmers. If anyone has figured out how to make this ubiquitous small business accounting program function as an effective farm financial management tool it would be Mark.
Topics: farm financial statements, accrual accounting, farm financial reporting, quickbooks, cash or accrual
Attendees at the 2011 Ag Bankers Conference experienced a warping of the time-space continuum as 93 percent reported that their farm customers were managing their farms like it was 1981, not 2011. Unbelievably, only seven out of 100 lenders had clients using accrual accounting.
Topics: farm financial statements, accrual accounting, Farm Financial Standards
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