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Have you felt the need recently to play hooky from work? Maybe it snowed the night before and you simply don’t want to drive on slick roads. Or the sky too beautiful to be stuck in doors all-day staring at your computer monitor. Then there’s the ultimate, your bed telling you to return for no other reason than to spend a dreamy day curled up nice and warm. No matter what willed you to call off from work, even though nothing ailed you, you’re playing hooky. Once in a while everyone needs a hooky day, or what we now refer to as a “personal day.” It helps recharge us, and reminds us that there’s more to life than working.

Although there is no agreed upon explanation why we use the term “hooky” there are many theories floating about. One being that in the nineteenth century public schools started implementing attendance rules. It was now required that students come to classes daily. During that time the children used a slang saying “hook it”, as in to make off with or escape. So someone not attending school “hook it” for a day. Later the two words were mashed together to form hooki then hooky.

Around the same time another slang word “hook” was used. In its simple form hook meaning as in to steal, may have also contributed to the term hooky. By not attending classes, children were stealing a day off from school.

NetSuite understands the need to get away from the office now and then. NetSuite’s ERP software utilizes the newest mobile technology supporting mobile devices such as iPhone, BlackBerry and Android. You can be away from your office and still know exactly what’s going on, no matter where you are. Your sales team can also receive real-time access to the information they need. NetSuite integrates with your personal calendar keeping you undated and allowing you to accept or decline meetings on the go. Now you can play hooky and not feel guilty taking a day for yourself.

Sometime in 1395 a child was born in the city of Mainz. When Johannes Gutenberg was born he probably wasn’t much to look at. Somehow an idea formed in his impressionable youth that would later revolutionize the way society looks at the world. Who would have thought that simple rattle with his initials carved on the crown would be the start a new media era?

What thoughts must have run though his young mind when the same rattle landed promptly across his father’s forehead imprinting his backward initials? Maybe “cool”, or something  equivalent to that time period. It would take years before he’d come to realize the significance to his discovery.

It seems a likely story but no one will ever know if a rattle was Gutenberg’s muse. It might have been the Chinese who influenced him to make the printing press? They had movable type since 1041 when ol’ Bi Sheng went crazy over those clay plates. Then Wang Zhen had to jump on the bandwagon and started using wood letters instead. So possibly it was Wang?  Who knows for sure? What’s for certain is Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press changed how society viewed religion, education, science, journalism, entertainment and so much more.

The invention of the printing press ushered in an area of being “in the know”. The rich were no longer the only ones privy to reading books.  No one had to be in the dark about subjects that interested them or had to rely on stained glass pictures to learn their favorite stories. In time, printing became in huge demand. Everyone wanted books regardless if they could read or not. Printing presses swept over Europe, producing mass quantities of books. But printing took a lot of time and dedication to make books look just right.

Can you imagine your accounting department having to wait around for one computer? Or having your sales team go overseas to sell your inventory, only to question if you’d ever see your  products again? Insanity, right?  Thank goodness we live in a world with technology that can make your business life easy.

The old-timer of SaaS, Netsuite is the of the best  Ecommerce, accounting and customer relationship management software solution tools on the market. SaaS software allows you to access your information on your laptop, desktop, pad or phone day or night, just as long as you’re connected to the web. This makes it easier than having to wait three years for that important shipment.

Keep up with Gutenberg’s tradition and stay up to date with your business practices. Give Netsuite a test drive today by contacting our sales representatives at 310-559-3982 or by visiting our Contact Us page to get more information and a quote for your business

After staying up all night last night trying desperately to read the faded typeface of the stack of waxy receipts and do my best to determine whether a number was in fact a “3” instead of an “8”, it became more and more apparent why businesses switch to e-filing in many countries and the increased need for a clean audit trail to keep the tax IRS at bay.

Even within our strained economic times, businesses are ensuring that they keep their tax functions well resourced. Seems like the right place to allocate money, no? On the face of it, principles of value added taxation in all countries are broadly the same—charge tax on your sales, recover taxes paid on your purchases and account for the difference. We all speak the same language, we hope we don’t owe money and we’d love a return.

But the interpretation and implementation of the rules can vary considerably. Add to this the fact that companies use different administrative practices, multiple systems and even outsource tax services, all factors that can have a significant impact on the compliance cost.

A recent Thomson Reuters survey (November 2011) found a 51% increase in the resources global companies allocate to manage indirect tax compliance as compared to five years ago. As governments increasingly seek to raise revenue through indirect taxes, it’s not surprising that companies have been increasing resources in their tax management function to ensure that the calculations are correct and that they are able to successfully withstand any government tax audit.

What have financial software vendors done to ensure that updates to their systems are timely and accurate so that their customers, particularly those that operate in a global environment, remain compliant? The answer is very little. That’s where Netsuite OneWorld and the cloud make a huge difference.

The NetSuite Platform Solutions team developed a tool for tax rate changes, such that changes to our customers’ websites, unfulfilled sales orders, item prices and customer records can be automated overnight with very little manual effort involved.

Finally, taxes do not have to be taxing.

To find out more about how NetSuite’s applications can help your company streamline your taxes among many other abilities, visit our NetSuite page or email Brett Hensley at bhensley@tmc-la.com