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Lead Your Business to Higher Profits:

Through Business Intelligence

Businesses must react faster to changing profitability and customer trends, and to do that you need the ability to access and analyze critical data about your business quickly. You need up‐to‐the‐minute information about your income, costs, and customers in order to make the best possible decisions. In many businesses, collecting and analyzing this information is challenging because different departments store the data in non‐integrated systems and provide varying levels of reporting. In order to get the information you need, you must rely on the IT department to sort out the data you need, or ask individual employees in each business unit to create reports. If IT is busy or employees are unavailable, you don’t receive reports.

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Bonus Depreciation Provision for Businesses (2010-2012) – US

President Obama signed House Bill H.R. 4853 (Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010) into law on December 17, 2010. H.R. 4853 includes a two-part extension of the bonus depreciation provision for all businesses, regardless of size. The potential tax benefits may be useful for your customers.

On December 17, 2010, President Obama signed into law House Bill H.R. 4853. This new law could allow businesses to write off an additional 100% of the cost of qualifying assets (including software) acquired and placed into service after September 8, 2010 through December 31, 2011. This law could also allow businesses to write off an additional 50% of the cost of qualifying assets placed into service after December 31, 2011 through December 31, 2012. This bill was signed in an attempt to encourage capital investment through 2012.

We want to let you know about this bill now because some of its provisions will only apply to qualifying assets put into service in 2010 and 2011. Further, there is no guarantee that a similar bill will be signed into law in 2013. As such, it is possible that certain tax benefits offered by this bill will only be applicable to qualifying asset purchases that occur over the next two years.

To further illustrate the potential tax benefits that this bill may offer to you or your customers, we have attached a copy of the text of the bill. We encourage you or your customers to review this bill and its implications together with a qualified tax advisor.

THE CONTENTS OF THIS ARTICLE WERE WRITTEN AS A CONVENIENCE TO YOU. THIS ARTICLE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE TAX ADVICE FROM Business Automation Specialists of MN INC OR ITS EMPLOYEES AND REPRESENTATIVES. IT IS OF A GENERAL NATURE ONLY AND IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR CAREFUL TAX PLANNING AND ADVICE. THIS ARTICLE IS NOT INTENDED TO CONSTITUTE A COMPLETE ANALYSIS OF ALL TAX CONSIDERATIONS RELATED TO H.R. 4853. AS SUCH, ALL READERS ARE URGED TO CONSULT WITH THEIR OWN TAX ADVISORS CONCERNING THE U.S. FEDERAL TAX CONSIDERATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH H.R. 4853, AS WELL AS ANY CONSIDERATIONS ARISING UNDER THE LAWS OF ANY STATE, LOCAL, OR OTHER TAXING JURISDICTION.

THIS ARTICLE WAS NOT INTENDED OR WRITTEN TO BE USED, AND SHOULD NOT BE USED, BY ANY READER FOR THE PURPOSE OF AVOIDING U.S. FEDERAL OR OTHER TAX PENALTIES, OR FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROMOTING, MARKETING, OR RECOMMENDING TO ANOTHER PARTY ANY TAX-RELATED MATTERS.

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You and Your Dashboard

By Ron Ketterling

Have you ever wished that your computer system could just tell you what you need to know, when you need to know it?  This issue has been on my mind frequently for the last couple of years.  

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BASM and Sage Pro Provide Bernatello’s a Recipe for Success

Founded in 1981, Bernatello’s got its start as a local tavern where pizzas were sold to area patrons.  As its popularity increased, they began selling branded pizzas to local retailPizza grahic establishments.  In ’82 the tavern was sold and a manufacturing plant was started with a manual production line of eight employees applying ingredients by hand.  Making 500 pizzas was considered a good day.  As demand grew so did their production, distribution, and product lines.

Today, their Maple Lake, Minnesota plant runs four shifts, five days a week, employing over 165 people and the capabilities to produce 100,000 pizzas per day for millions of pizza lovers throughout the Midwest.  The small family business has grown into an industry success story!

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Being Self-Sufficient vs. Knowing When to Ask for Help

Dan Eckhoff, BASM Project LeadBy Dan Eckhoff, BASM Project Lead

After reading a recent article about what value a VAR really brings to you, our clients, it made me think about how my role specifically provides value. I know that the value I bring stems from my background in accounting. I take a fiscally conservative approach to
everything and I always want to find the most effective and efficient way
to get things done. I’m cheap and I don’t like to spend money – whether it’s my own, or our clients.

In addition to working on client projects and creating custom reports, part of my role at BASM is to assist with help desk calls. This is always enlightening and if I could
communicate just two things to our clients it would be:

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How to Make Business Intelligence Pay

Over the last decade, the vast majority of small and midsized businesses (SMB’s) have implemented one or more generations of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems to help manage their day-to-day business processes such as accounting, order entry and operations.

Distribution companies have typically augmented these systems with inventory control and warehouse management capabilities, while manufacturing companies have added bills of materials (BOM’s) and Material Requirement Planning (MRP I) or Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II) functionality.

During this time we have seen three distinct waves of business software implementations:

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