Cyber Security for your email is a critical defense against crooks and ransomware. Per recent studies, over 80% of Cyber attacks start with email.

Even with the best technology defenses on your network, you are at risk. If a human clicks on a malicious email, the cyber crooks can steal or ‘lock up’ your data to hold you ransom. Standard Anti-virus software will only catch a small fraction of malicious emails that target users.

To add an important layer of protection, we recommend that our clients deploy email filtering software.

Westlake Village, CA. We are pleased to announce that Richard Randle has joined the Executive Team of MBSG as a shareholder.

Richard leads our IT Systems and Security practice.

With cyber security and ransomware much in the news, Richard has performed Systems and Security Assessments for many organizations -- to identify vulnerabilities and shore up defenses. Richard also serves as outsourced CIO (Chief Information Officer) for several clients.

This edition of the QuickBooks Newsletter discusses these topics

• How To Keep Your QuickBooks Data Safe
• Best Practices for QuickBooks Backup
• Need Features Missing from QuickBooks?

To read the QuickBooks newsletter (PDF), click here http://conta.cc/2suHDpu

For most businesses, we recommend that your IT staff or consultant configure automatic backups of your entire system. However, backing up QuickBooks files using server backup software is not enough.

Beyond the network-level backups, we recommend that companies also perform frequent backups from within QuickBooks, using the QuickBooks menu. 

The reason we make this recommendation is becuase the QuickBooks backup function also performs file maintenance.  This file maintenance helps protect the integrity of your data files.

In one month, our client received a return on automation more than ten times what they paid to us! A very healthy ROI.

Java Holdings is a food and merchandise liquidator. They purchase meat, poultry, canned and frozen food and more. They buy small and large lots, including short-coded food. To increase sales, Java engaged MBSG to automate the preparation and delivery of Sales Sheets.

With the workflow automation that MBSG created, Java can now send Sales Sheets for more items, to more customer, more often -- at greatly reduced lead time and cost.

Read More at Automation Success Story.

For users of Sage 100c (subscription pricing) ERP software, Sage announced the following

• Free Multi-Bin module for Inventory Management

• Free Designer Module for Sage Intelligence Reporting (SIR)
  
  

For the Multi-Bin module, note that this is the basic version of multi-bin. If you are using the manufacturing modules, you will need the advanced version of mult-bin, at additional cost.

The Designer Module dramatically simplifies the process of editing and creating new reports with SIR.

For both of the free modules, note that Sage provides these to  registered users of Sage 100c (not Sage 100) who are current on software maintenance.

For details, visit our Sage 100 Newsletter http://conta.cc/2oONKnI

Do you have many recurring transactions such as bills (payables), invoices, purchase orders?

If so, QuickBooks can save you time and errors with a feature called Memorized Transactions.

For example, you might make a rent payment every month. With QuickBooks memorized transactions, you could add that transaction to a Reminders List. QuickBooks will prompt you every time the transaction comes due. Even if the dollar amount changes with each occurence, QuickBooks can remember all of the other data fields, to save you time.

Our QuickBooks newsletter provides details on how to use Memorized Transactions. http://conta.cc/2nEhoOw

Business Owners know and expect financial audits. What they may not expect is having to pass a Software License audit.

Microsoft has been aggressively auditing its customers. No company is immune. It is no longer, if you get audited, it is when.