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Understand Assessment Strategies 2007-12-01 Microsoft Tips

Assessing students has been a part of the teacher's job since the opening of the very first schoolhouse. However, assessment today is very different from the assessment that happened in one-room schools on the prairie. Today, most educators would agree that assessment is, for better or worse, not only how students are measured but also how schools and teachers are measured. Assessment occurs at all levels, from the classroom to the national.

The Home Office Deduction 2007-12-01 Microsoft Tips

The savings from an office-in-home deduction can be significant, particularly in the case of a taxpayer who is subject to both income and self-employment taxes. However, before including this deduction on the client's return, one should help him assess his future. In particular, one should inquire whether he'll be selling his house soon. If the client claims an office-in-home deduction in the year that he sells his house, he could incur a significant tax penalty.

Sell Your Clients on Integrated Accounting Software 2007-12-01 Microsoft Tips

Financial management and accounting are critical to the success of one's clients' business. Yet for many small business owners, limited finances and limited number of employees mean that owners must manage most of the day-to-day tasks of running their businesses. The complexity of budgeting, inventory, payroll, taxes, expenditures, and billing can be enough to overwhelm any business owner. As a result, small business owners have little time to devote the attention required to truly analyze their financial information to make smart business decisions.

Tags: Finance

Make Time Adjustments to Fit Your Values 2007-12-01 Microsoft Tips

Once the user has created a personal mission statement - that is, a statement that defines what's important to the user and that helps him or her make difficult decisions when faced with the myriad choices that life presents the user need to assess if he or she is spending the time in ways consistent with that statement. For example, if other people observe the way the user spends the time, will it be obvious what the user values? If the user say health is important, one would expect to see the user being physically active. If the user say family is important, one would expect to see the user spending quality time together. Is the user using the time in ways that reflect priorities?

Using Documents Effectively in Court 2007-12-01 Microsoft Tips

Long before one enters the courtroom, one must spend a great deal of time preparing, formatting, and organizing the documents that one plan to use as part of the case. One is often required to use precise formatting in the documents that one files with the court. For example, pleadings, briefs, and other similar documents must adhere to court formatting rules and must often be submitted under court-imposed deadlines. Many of the tools that are available in Word 2003 can assist one in creating documents easily and reduce the amount of time one spend preparing documents for filing.

Tags: Word Processing

The Greening of Training: How Sustainability is Reshaping Organizational Learning 2007-12-01 SkillSoft

Is your company "going green?" Would you like it to? This paper looks at corporate sustainability efforts and the pivotal role that the learning department can play in them. Also included are practical ideas for making training more environmentally-friendly.

Tags: IT HR - Staffing - Training, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., Resources Mgmt., Training

Microsoft Dynamics Webcast: Is It Time to Move From Microsoft Small Business Financials to Microsoft Dynamics GP? (Level 100) 2007-11-15 Microsoft

Microsoft Small Business Financials has helped business get to where it is today. But as business grows, financial software needs to meet ever more complex requirements. Attendee of this webcast will learn what is involved in transitioning from Microsoft Small Business Financials to Microsoft Dynamics GP and to explore the more sophisticated management, planning, and reporting capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics GP.

Tags: Finance

Real Results: The True Opportunity of Online Learning 2007-11-01 WebEx Communications

With the advent of online training in the late 1990s, many companies viewed the opportunity to incorporate e-learning into their training mix as simply leveraging technology to reduce costs. However, the true opportunity of online training lies in what happens after it is adopted into an enterprise.

The case studies presented here show real results from organizations that have moved beyond the initial benefits of cost and timesavings available from online training, and have successfully realized greater productivity, efficiency, and strategic advantage.

These three organizations -- Canon, Compulink, and Mexico's National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) -- are some of the many companies and organizations who have used WebEx Training Center to transform not only how they deliver training, but their businesses as well.

Tags: MSP, IT HR - Staffing - Training, Training, Training and Certification

Darden Restaurants Cuts Operational Costs, Speeds Time-to-Market, With POS Solution 2007-11-01 Microsoft

Florida-based Darden Restaurants - owner and operator of Red Lobster, Olive Garden, and other popular casual-dining restaurants - wanted to replace an aging Point-of-Service (POS) system in its 1,400 restaurants with one that offered higher reliability, greater manageability, and faster deployment to new locations. That's what it has with a solution built on Microsoft technologies. With greater visibility into POS status, automated self-healing, and proactive on-site maintenance, Darden has almost eliminated the time needed to service POS devices, has cut the time to deploy devices to new restaurants by half, and is saving millions of dollars per year in POS-related maintenance and deployment costs. Best of all, according to one executive, IT at Darden is now a driver of the company's continued business success.

Tags: Windows XP

Duke Bets on Wireless Technology: Sees Wireless as the Future of Campus Learning 2007-10-22 Cisco Systems

In today's 24/7 environment, Duke University believes outfitting its campus with wireless technologies such as Cisco's 802.11n wireless solution, enriches the learning experience for students.

Tags: Wi-Fi (802.11), Mobile - Wireless Communications

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Title	Date Added	Company
Understand Assessment Strategies	2007-12-01	Microsoft Tips
Assessing students has been a part of the teacher's job since the opening of the very first schoolhouse. However, assessment today is very different from the assessment that happened in one-room schools on the prairie. Today, most educators would agree that assessment is, for better or worse, not only how students are measured but also how schools and teachers are measured. Assessment occurs at all levels, from the classroom to the national.
The Home Office Deduction	2007-12-01	Microsoft Tips
The savings from an office-in-home deduction can be significant, particularly in the case of a taxpayer who is subject to both income and self-employment taxes. However, before including this deduction on the client's return, one should help him assess his future. In particular, one should inquire whether he'll be selling his house soon. If the client claims an office-in-home deduction in the year that he sells his house, he could incur a significant tax penalty.
Sell Your Clients on Integrated Accounting Software	2007-12-01	Microsoft Tips
Financial management and accounting are critical to the success of one's clients' business. Yet for many small business owners, limited finances and limited number of employees mean that owners must manage most of the day-to-day tasks of running their businesses. The complexity of budgeting, inventory, payroll, taxes, expenditures, and billing can be enough to overwhelm any business owner. As a result, small business owners have little time to devote the attention required to truly analyze their financial information to make smart business decisions. Tags: Finance
Make Time Adjustments to Fit Your Values	2007-12-01	Microsoft Tips
Once the user has created a personal mission statement - that is, a statement that defines what's important to the user and that helps him or her make difficult decisions when faced with the myriad choices that life presents the user need to assess if he or she is spending the time in ways consistent with that statement. For example, if other people observe the way the user spends the time, will it be obvious what the user values? If the user say health is important, one would expect to see the user being physically active. If the user say family is important, one would expect to see the user spending quality time together. Is the user using the time in ways that reflect priorities?
Using Documents Effectively in Court	2007-12-01	Microsoft Tips
Long before one enters the courtroom, one must spend a great deal of time preparing, formatting, and organizing the documents that one plan to use as part of the case. One is often required to use precise formatting in the documents that one files with the court. For example, pleadings, briefs, and other similar documents must adhere to court formatting rules and must often be submitted under court-imposed deadlines. Many of the tools that are available in Word 2003 can assist one in creating documents easily and reduce the amount of time one spend preparing documents for filing. Tags: Word Processing
The Greening of Training: How Sustainability is Reshaping Organizational Learning	2007-12-01	SkillSoft
Is your company "going green?" Would you like it to? This paper looks at corporate sustainability efforts and the pivotal role that the learning department can play in them. Also included are practical ideas for making training more environmentally-friendly. Tags: IT HR - Staffing - Training, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., Resources Mgmt., Training
Microsoft Dynamics Webcast: Is It Time to Move From Microsoft Small Business Financials to Microsoft Dynamics GP? (Level 100)	2007-11-15	Microsoft
Microsoft Small Business Financials has helped business get to where it is today. But as business grows, financial software needs to meet ever more complex requirements. Attendee of this webcast will learn what is involved in transitioning from Microsoft Small Business Financials to Microsoft Dynamics GP and to explore the more sophisticated management, planning, and reporting capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics GP. Tags: Finance
Real Results: The True Opportunity of Online Learning	2007-11-01	WebEx Communications
With the advent of online training in the late 1990s, many companies viewed the opportunity to incorporate e-learning into their training mix as simply leveraging technology to reduce costs. However, the true opportunity of online training lies in what happens after it is adopted into an enterprise. The case studies presented here show real results from organizations that have moved beyond the initial benefits of cost and timesavings available from online training, and have successfully realized greater productivity, efficiency, and strategic advantage. These three organizations -- Canon, Compulink, and Mexico's National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) -- are some of the many companies and organizations who have used WebEx Training Center to transform not only how they deliver training, but their businesses as well. Tags: MSP, IT HR - Staffing - Training, Training, Training and Certification
Darden Restaurants Cuts Operational Costs, Speeds Time-to-Market, With POS Solution	2007-11-01	Microsoft
Florida-based Darden Restaurants - owner and operator of Red Lobster, Olive Garden, and other popular casual-dining restaurants - wanted to replace an aging Point-of-Service (POS) system in its 1,400 restaurants with one that offered higher reliability, greater manageability, and faster deployment to new locations. That's what it has with a solution built on Microsoft technologies. With greater visibility into POS status, automated self-healing, and proactive on-site maintenance, Darden has almost eliminated the time needed to service POS devices, has cut the time to deploy devices to new restaurants by half, and is saving millions of dollars per year in POS-related maintenance and deployment costs. Best of all, according to one executive, IT at Darden is now a driver of the company's continued business success. Tags: Windows XP
Duke Bets on Wireless Technology: Sees Wireless as the Future of Campus Learning	2007-10-22	Cisco Systems
In today's 24/7 environment, Duke University believes outfitting its campus with wireless technologies such as Cisco's 802.11n wireless solution, enriches the learning experience for students. Tags: Wi-Fi (802.11), Mobile - Wireless Communications