BTerrell Group Blog

April 18, 2014 – DALLAS – B Terrell Group is pleased to announce that Intacct Corp. named them one of its first Premier Partners. To achieve this level of recognition from Intacct, B Terrell had to complete many stringent requirements. These include having at least two certified Intacct consultants and a certified demo champion on staff.

Malcolm Gladwell’s books always make me think, and his excellent writing makes the thinking easy.  I’ve heard him criticized for tenuous and selective research.  However, doesn’t the way he raises the level of popular discussion and ultimate understanding of an issue go a long way to mitigate those concerns?  Regardless, Mr. Gladwell’s recent David and Goliath asserts that too much of a good thing, as represented graphically by the inverted u-curve, applies to areas we might not expect, such as smaller school class sizes, artistic marketplaces, and university choice, amongst others.  But, I wonder if the inverted u-curve also applies to software customization?

Thanks to everyone who attended Wednesday's panel discussion in which Keith Karnes, President of BTerrell Group, and I compared and contrasted the two accounting software products BTerrell supports.  We have 23 years of experience with Sage 300 ERP and nearly 4 years of experience with Intacct.  If you were able to join us, we hope you learned a lot.  If you had to miss it, these are some of the key points that were made.

In the last 4 weeks, I have visited with two prospects frustrated by QuickBooks' inability to manage multiple related companies.  Both prospects provide financial management services to ten or more related entities, and the relationship between entities leads to many inter company transactions.  Quickbooks complicates multi entity accounting engagements because it was just not designed to solve these types of accounting challenges.