Excuses are the same no matter what the size is - as anyone with teenage children will know.
Why were you late coming home on Saturday night?
Well. . .I thought about coming home at 11 but I knew you would be watching Match of the Day and didnt want to disturb that. I also felt that I could give you a more complete parent experience by letting you have a good night's sleep before I crawled in.
Well - relatively tarnished. The choice of a picture of an angry footballer in the process of disgracing football (and, sadly, my team) by furious verbal assault on the referee looks a bit like deliberate graphic demonisation.
OK - a picture of footballers handing flowers to children would have been similarly inappropriate- but perhaps we could have had something less redolent of Stalin's propaganda machine ?
Nonetheless, they do need bringing down a peg (several thousand pegs a week in fact)
Sage sells well though We were largely persuaded by the inclusion of "Free upgrades" for the next two versions of Sage (2007 and 2008) to extend our Sage Cover to "Extra"
We can now see why they are "free" - the 2007 version (still called, interestingly, V13 under its bonnet) was abysmal and has taken considerable person/days to come to terms with (and still counting)
It is transaparantly clear that this release was all about keeping up with the treadmill of beating last year's sales and had nothing to do with presenting an improved product.
Mr Ford says they are not considering compensation. Well, we may well seek solace elsewhere.
Whose cost is it anyhow ? I would hope that amongst the emporers clothes to be looked at would be the cost of collection.
Not the cost to the Revenue, who have developed outsourcing to a wonderful degree, but the cost to the whole national economy.
If it were, then VAT would be the first to go.
How on earth a system that calls for every single transaction to be considered against a mountain of minutely pedantic legislation before being split into 3 elements - Gross Net and VAT - ever got off the drawing board in the first place is not just bewildering - its a disgraceful act of incompetence.
Not a day goes by in our Accounts section without this appalling tax gritting up the mechanisms.
At least 20% of our time could be released to more meaningful tasks if we did not have to continually push this particular dung ( and gritty dung at that) up the hill.
Once thats gone - then we could take out NI, IPT and CCL. Oh hell, yes, - lets go the whole hog and have a flat tax.
That caps it all The continuing battlefront on car benefits was made to appear greener by using emissions to determine the level of benefit.
But why was the list price capped at £80,000 - are extremely ostentatious/polluting vehicles considered to be no more destructive than just very ostentatious/polluting vehicles?
Or do I detect the dead hand of Lord's amendments?
If so - weeding them out (the Lords that is)might assist the noble march towards a cleaner world (fanfare)
Typewriter I had a very quick look at the specimen Adobe form and tried out some entries and the inevitable corrections thereof.
It was only a few moments before I had created quite a mess with boxes pulled out of alignment and miscorrected corrections.
It IS a good idea - but I would quake in my boots at the thought of putting a real form out there and then trying to decipher the returns.
Obviously with experience it will improve - but as with all things, do we have the time to gain the experience before its redundant? I'll wait for version 7.05b I think.
When Wenger winges? Sage Line 50 does have one very annoying fault in its Project system - you cant edit transactions to add or alter a Project number later.
So if you do realise at a later date that the dinner you gave to Ashley Cole actually properly belongs to the "Annoy Wenger" project - its too late - unless you cancel and re-enter - and all thoe red entries are bound to invite unwanted attention.
Dangerously Average ODBCer I am dangerously average and come to a full stop trying to draw down Sage data into Excel when I try to use more than one 'table' (stupidly believing I could get past Sage's mystic coyness on Nominal Account names without diverting down the Vlookup bypass)
I'm told (is it by Excel or Sage - or even SQL in the background?) that I must drag headings from one table to another?
Well above my level of average - what does it mean? How do I do it? (CAN I do it?)
BACS to the future Firstly - thanks for taking up the subject. Its good to know that my uncomfortableness with Sage E-Payments is not just a Victor Meldrew thing (It is that as well, of course)
You may know that back in the days of Sage v6 there was an approved add-on from ChequeGen that handled BACS from Sage batch payments quite adequately.
Sage withdrew support for this with the advent of v7 when they boasted ot their own improved payment facilities - but these were nowhere near of equal merit. It was this aspect alone that made our company avoid versions 7, 8 and 9. Eventually the pressure of being dangerously adrift on upgrades forced us to bite the bullet and take on V10 plus E-Banking.
As we feared the degradation in supplier payment processing has caused longer hours and the necessary intervention of my own dangerously complex spreadsheets to emulate batch pre-listing for approvals - none of which is very palatable (although it has lengthened my VBA learning curve)
All of this should have been avoidable with sane programming - and when we next review our software it will weigh heavily on my mind.
My answers
Fractal Excuses
Excuses are the same no matter what the size is - as anyone with teenage children will know.
Why were you late coming home on Saturday night?
Well. . .I thought about coming home at 11 but I knew you would be watching Match of the Day and didnt want to disturb that. I also felt that I could give you a more complete parent experience by letting you have a good night's sleep before I crawled in.
Oh - that's all right, then.
Not
Footballers images tarnished
Well - relatively tarnished. The choice of a picture of an angry footballer in the process of disgracing football (and, sadly, my team) by furious verbal assault on the referee looks a bit like deliberate graphic demonisation.
OK - a picture of footballers handing flowers to children would have been similarly inappropriate- but perhaps we could have had something less redolent of Stalin's propaganda machine ?
Nonetheless, they do need bringing down a peg (several thousand pegs a week in fact)
Northern Rocker
1....and always remember - escalators can go down as well as up
2. OK- who's superglued the hand rail ?
3. Yes, I'm afraid I have to admit it - the suit is sub prime as well
4 Its all nonsense - we're as safe as houses!
Sage sells well though
We were largely persuaded by the inclusion of "Free upgrades" for the next two versions of Sage (2007 and 2008) to extend our Sage Cover to "Extra"
We can now see why they are "free" - the 2007 version (still called, interestingly, V13 under its bonnet) was abysmal and has taken considerable person/days to come to terms with (and still counting)
It is transaparantly clear that this release was all about keeping up with the treadmill of beating last year's sales and had nothing to do with presenting an improved product.
Mr Ford says they are not considering compensation. Well, we may well seek solace elsewhere.
Whose cost is it anyhow ?
I would hope that amongst the emporers clothes to be looked at would be the cost of collection.
Not the cost to the Revenue, who have developed outsourcing to a wonderful degree, but the cost to the whole national economy.
If it were, then VAT would be the first to go.
How on earth a system that calls for every single transaction to be considered against a mountain of minutely pedantic legislation before being split into 3 elements - Gross Net and VAT - ever got off the drawing board in the first place is not just bewildering - its a disgraceful act of incompetence.
Not a day goes by in our Accounts section without this appalling tax gritting up the mechanisms.
At least 20% of our time could be released to more meaningful tasks if we did not have to continually push this particular dung ( and gritty dung at that) up the hill.
Once thats gone - then we could take out NI, IPT and CCL. Oh hell, yes, - lets go the whole hog and have a flat tax.
That caps it all
The continuing battlefront on car benefits was made to appear greener by using emissions to determine the level of benefit.
But why was the list price capped at £80,000 - are extremely ostentatious/polluting vehicles considered to be no more destructive than just very ostentatious/polluting vehicles?
Or do I detect the dead hand of Lord's amendments?
If so - weeding them out (the Lords that is)might assist the noble march towards a cleaner world (fanfare)
Howard Midwinter
Typewriter
I had a very quick look at the specimen Adobe form and tried out some entries and the inevitable corrections thereof.
It was only a few moments before I had created quite a mess with boxes pulled out of alignment and miscorrected corrections.
It IS a good idea - but I would quake in my boots at the thought of putting a real form out there and then trying to decipher the returns.
Obviously with experience it will improve - but as with all things, do we have the time to gain the experience before its redundant? I'll wait for version 7.05b I think.
When Wenger winges?
Sage Line 50 does have one very annoying fault in its Project system - you cant edit transactions to add or alter a Project number later.
So if you do realise at a later date that the dinner you gave to Ashley Cole actually properly belongs to the "Annoy Wenger" project - its too late - unless you cancel and re-enter - and all thoe red entries are bound to invite unwanted attention.
Dangerously Average ODBCer
I am dangerously average and come to a full stop trying to draw down Sage data into Excel when I try to use more than one 'table' (stupidly believing I could get past Sage's mystic coyness on Nominal Account names without diverting down the Vlookup bypass)
I'm told (is it by Excel or Sage - or even SQL in the background?) that I must drag headings from one table to another?
Well above my level of average - what does it mean? How do I do it? (CAN I do it?)
We should be told.
BACS to the future
Firstly - thanks for taking up the subject. Its good to know that my uncomfortableness with Sage E-Payments is not just a Victor Meldrew thing (It is that as well, of course)
You may know that back in the days of Sage v6 there was an approved add-on from ChequeGen that handled BACS from Sage batch payments quite adequately.
Sage withdrew support for this with the advent of v7 when they boasted ot their own improved payment facilities - but these were nowhere near of equal merit. It was this aspect alone that made our company avoid versions 7, 8 and 9. Eventually the pressure of being dangerously adrift on upgrades forced us to bite the bullet and take on V10 plus E-Banking.
As we feared the degradation in supplier payment processing has caused longer hours and the necessary intervention of my own dangerously complex spreadsheets to emulate batch pre-listing for approvals - none of which is very palatable (although it has lengthened my VBA learning curve)
All of this should have been avoidable with sane programming - and when we next review our software it will weigh heavily on my mind.