Eliminate M.E.S.S. - Energized Accounting

Columns that don't add. Totals that don't carry forward. Blank cells in spreadsheets. Why?

Eliminate M.E.S.S. - Energized Accounting

Home›Accounting Software›Software›Eliminate M.E.S.S. Eliminate M.E.S.S. Posted on May 17, 2007 by Bill Kennedy—2 Comments ↓ M.E.S.S. stands for Manually Entered SpreadSheets. Don’t get me wrong. I was raised on spreadsheets: first Visicalc, then Lotus 123, finally Excel. They are a second language to me. But when I see people pecking away entering raw data in them, I have to wonder why they can’t get it from their accounting system. Ideally, their time should be spent analyzing their data, not keying it in. Why does M.E.S.S. happen?A lack of trust in the accounting system, particularly when someone was not in favour of the change to begin with. Early in my career, a mining client converted their accounting system. The Accounts...Read More

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