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Business must show green leadership
In an open letter to the Guardian today, Benchmark Software joined the likes of Marks & Spencer, PepsiCo and Morrisons in urging the Government to support "green" practices in the face of "rising energy costs" and "out-of-date thinking." The ... read more
Posted on 20/01/2011 by Simon Harvey
Help for SMEs to cut CO2 footprint
by Hugo Greenhalgh Financial Times; 2 October 2010 The Carbon Trust Standard Company has launched an online assessment and certification service for small businesses with energy bills below £50,000 a year, to help them cut their carbon f... read more
Posted on 07/10/2010 by Simon Harvey
Benchmark achieves The Carbon Trust Standard
Carbon Trust Standard Launches New Service to Help SMEs Benefit from Carbon Reduction London, 4th October 2010: The Carbon Trust Standard Company today made it easier and more cost effective for the UK’s 4.8 million SMEs* to cut their carbon footp... read more
Posted on 30/09/2010 by Simon Harvey
There's No USB Stick
We first saw this is the superb techy publication WIRED, (which should be essential reading for anyone that even goes near a computer). It was created by Wenger for their 100th birthday. With 87 blades and weighing in at nearly 1.5 kg, it is essent... read more
Posted on 07/09/2010 by Simon Harvey
Cloud Accounting Software
[This post was originally made on the AccountingWeb 'Cloud Accounting Discussion Group' forum.] A different perspective on the cloud from an accounting software developer As an established business software developer, including accounts package... read more
Posted on 28/04/2010 by Simon Harvey
Can businesses make money from Twitter and Facebook?
There’s no doubt that many business-to-consumer companies have been very successful in making use of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace etc., collectively called Social Media or Social Networking. But how can Social Media benefit business-to-business organizations?... read more
Posted on 20/04/2010 by Simon Harvey
Sage Charge £400 for Data Corruption Fixes
We’re definitely doing something wrong here. Following on from our last blog about networking issues with the Sage Line 50 2010 upgrade, forum users on accountingWEB.co.uk have also been complaining about being charged £400 for overnight data corr... read more
Posted on 23/03/2010 by Simon Harvey
Sage Line 50 Networking Nightmares and Fighting Dogs
As a small software developer in the very serious market of accounting software, we sometimes feel that we’re punching way above our weight in terms of the scale and the quality of the software we develop. We're proud of that, but it sometime... read more
Posted on 23/03/2010 by Simon Harvey
How Do You Spell "Organization"?
This is a word you get to write quite a lot as soon as you start doing any sort of business writing, be it a blog, Web site copy or a White Paper. This is particularly true if you are writing about entities that are not businesses, such as charities,... read more
Posted on 02/02/2010 by Simon Harvey
What Does the Carbon Reduction Commitment Mean for SME's?
The Carbon Reduction Commitment, now called the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, was introduced by the Department of Energy and Climate Change's (DECC) and starts in April 2010. The DECC claims that it has been "designed to raise awareness in large or... read more
Posted on 01/02/2010 by Simon Harvey