Spreadsheet Dependency – Are You Addicted to Excel?
When you run a business, there are always some tasks that simply scream “INEFFICIENT!” and most business owners will generally not waste any time seeking a solution to those tasks; however, spreadsheet dependency just sort of sneaks up on you at one point or another. Being lured into spreadsheet dependency is an easy and almost transparent event. For many small contractors just starting out, spreadsheets are the first and seemingly only solution they need to get their company up and running.....quickly. On almost a daily basis, we talk with contractors or their bookkeepers about our AIA Billing program and when we tell them that it is designed to work off the Estimating and Progress Invoicing features in QuickBooks they tell us --- "oh, but we don't do our Estimating in…