WHITEPAPERS ON PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND ACCOUNTING

Boosting Your Bottom Line: 10 Ways to Maximize A/E Firm Profitability

Successful architecture and engineering firms have one thing in common: a strong bottom line. However, today's increasingly competitive environment is making it more and more difficult for A/E firm leaders and managers to maintain profitability levels. Based on our industry research, ZweigWhite has identified 10 easy ways that A/E firms can take action to maximize their profitability. Read more...

Business Portals: Unlock the Door to Greater Profitability

This whitepaper looks at the problems business portals were built to solve. It shows how this simple technology can add real value to your existing ERP investments. And it provides examples of companies who are already using business portals to improve the way they connect to the world. Read more...

DCAA Compliance Requires Better Processes and Flexible Tools

'Documentation Traceability' can build confidence in audits. The need for reliable, accessible, and traceable data that reconciles internal billing information with federal contracts, and with annual estimates of expenses, is of critical importance to federal government contractors who do business with the Department of Defense (DoD). Read more...

Effective Benchmarking for Project Management

Executives have long recognized that it is not acceptable to stand still in a world where change can lead to loss of competitive advantage in the blink of an eye. Leaders must monitor current performance and establish programs of improvement that continually enhance the performance of their organizations. Benchmarking recognizes and addresses the fact that you cannot effectively manage what you cannot measure. Read more...

The Essential Guide for Selecting Today's Business Software

This guide has been put together to take some of the mystery out of the process of selecting software. This is the third time we have updated the guide. Each time we write, we update the information with what we have learned over the years from completed software selection projects. The primary objective of this guide is to address what you need to know to select the right business software for your organization. Read more...

Evaluating Financial Management Software: Is It Time for a Change?

This whitepaper identifies key challenges business and technical management face with their financial management software. It walks through the key areas of a financial management solution so when you are evaluating current and future financial management software, you are prepared to avoid challenges and maximize your investment. Read more...

Four Breakthrough Methods to Accelerate ROI

Using a fictitious business scenario based on real-life experiences, this white paper explains how a well-intended but under-performing professional services organization is transformed and dramatically improves performance in the areas of cost reduction, profitability, and customer satisfaction. The four breakthroughs are summarized as: Read more...

Growth in Uncertain Times: Building Lasting Client Relationships in Professional Services Organizations

The business development landscape is not the same as it used to be. To stand out and build business in this new environment, there are certain key attributes you must build across your firm.  In this paper we will discuss how to grow your business, based on the research and insights of accountants, lawyers, and consultants themselves, to help you think strategically about building and deepening core client relationships. Read more...

Increase Efficiency with Project Management and Accounting Software

The Microsoft Business Solutions Project Management and Accounting solution (now in Microsoft Dynamics SL) provides a means for controlling costs and scheduling to many organizations, whether they view themselves as “project-driven” or not. Organizations that need to schedule, track, bill, and/or analyze discrete units of work can benefit from this functionality. Read more...

Managing Today's Professional Services Organizations: How to Improve Efficiency and Increase Profits

The reality facing most organizations is significant challenges related to accurately and efficiently capturing time and expense, managing work-in-progress, generating and approving invoices, and reporting on project and client status. Gaining control over these internal business factors rather than trying to control external forces (e.g. when a client remits payment) provides management with a tangible opportunity to improve operational efficiency and increase profits. Read more...

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Projects

After years of experience and countless discussions with engineering and construction companies, we found that "Best-in-Class" organizations do seven things very well, over and over again. These seven habits aren’t new or even complicated. In fact, they are so simple that any company can follow them. Read more...

Why Cash is King: Cash Management Essentials for the Professional Services Organization

Small and midsized business (SME) owners know that there is something even more fundamental to the success of their businesses than profits: cash. Without it, profits don’t matter. In this paper, we look at the differences between profits and cash, define cash management, and describe how to set up and maintain a robust cash management system. We then identify cash management best practices specific to PSOs. Read more...

Winning Decisions: A Guide to Assessing the Effectiveness of Your Business Software

Business decisions do not materialize out of thin air. Before someone makes a decision an enormous amount of activity has occurred, which has, in effect, dictated what that decision will be. Decisions are the last link in a long chain of actions.So if you are going to make winning decisions regarding the effectiveness of your business software, what are the activities and actions that should precede the decisions? Read more...

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