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Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009 Hello [Firstname],In this month's eNews, we share an exciting announcement. True to our name, we are growing. GrowthForce has recently opened a sales office in New Jersey to service the New York metropolitan area. Read more about our expansion in the article below. Fall is a great time for renewal and new ideas. You will find tips to do just that in our Recession Busters Column as well as our QuickBooks and Vistage tips sections. So get ready to renew with the eNews. AUDIT READY OR NOT Do you dread getting ready for an audit? Does preparing for an audit take you away from
more valuable business activities? This is a good time of year to make sure that your books are in line before the end of the year creeps up on you. Get organized now because once the auditors show up, it is too late. For CPAs, it is With new tighter rules of lending these days, banks are requiring that more and more businesses get audited or reviewed annually - a compilation is often not good enough anymore for bank compliance. Therefore, a number of businesses are finding themselves subject to an audit for the first time. GrowthForce's outsourced bookkeepers and controllers can help your business, or your clients, get ready for an audit. We help clients prepare schedules, reconcile accounts and organize supporting documents so that they are ready when the auditors knock on their door. To learn more about how to be ready for the auditor, Click here for an Auditor Support Case Study. GROWTHFORCE OPENS NEW JERSEY OFFICE CASSANO HIRED AS V.P.
Stephen King, GrowthForce President & CEO, said the company has been contemplating a satellite office for some time, but he now feels that the timing is right to make the move. One reason, surprisingly, is the state of the economy. "As the economy starts to turn, historically new businesses spring up," said King. "We will be ready to capitalize on that predicted trend." Mike Cassano is another reason. Cassano has been hired to manage the new sales office as GrowthForce V.P. of sales. It is not a new role for him. He has been involved in outsourced accounting since 2001 working in the same capacity for Virtual Growth and Administaff Financial Management Services, the predecessors to GrowthForce. Virtual Growth was the largest outsourced accounting firm in the country when it was acquired by Administaff, Inc. in 2001. Administaff eventually sold the business back to King who founded GrowthForce. Cassano has more than 25 years experience in the accounting software industry. He started his career as an auditor, but for the past 20 years, he has worked in sales and sales management. "I see a tremendous need in the small business marketplace which GrowthForce can fill," said Cassano about joining GrowthForce. "Most business owners want to focus on growing their core business, not bookkeeping and accounting. These functions are often viewed as distractions from what makes them money. GrowthForce takes this burden off of their shoulders and provides the business with timely, accurate and meaningful financial information. As a result, GrowthForce makes its customers more competitive and profitable. How many other companies can say that?" To see Mike Cassano's Bio, Click here. NEW RECESSION BUSTERS COLUMNOur Recession Busters Column is packed with a one-two punch: revenue-generating and cost-saving suggestions designed to help small businesses battle the recession. Revenue Generating
Click here for an article on Marketing's Magic Formula to Building Revenues. Cost Savings
Click here for a step-by-step plan on how to save on electricity expenses.
VISTAGE TIPYou can have the best business strategy in the world, but it does not amount to much if not executed properly. So how do you insure that your employees carry out their marching orders? Find out in this month's Vistage Tip: "Executing Strategy with Clarity and Discipline." Vistage is the world's largest CEO peer group made up of CEOs who help each another make better decisions, achieve better results for their businesses and enhance their lives. They collaborate over the Web, receive one-on-one coaching, attend peer group monthly meetings, tap into a vast online resource library and learn from expert speakers. Click here for information about Vistage. This month's tip from Vistage is about: Executing Strategy with Clarity and Discipline Click here for the article.
* GrowthForce is not a CPA firm.
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Seeing our business grow is a great reward. Helping a client through a successful audit is another rewarding experience. Read more about how GrowthForce has helped businesses and their CPAs get ready for the auditor in our Auditor Support Case Study.
a good time to identify clients who have had difficult audits last year and to help them prepare for next year. 
In August, GrowthForce opened a new office in Florham Park, NJ to service the New York metropolitan area. GrowthForce will provide outsourced bookkeeping and controller services as well as Quickbooks system design for publicly-traded small cap businesses and non-profit organizations with typically $2 million or more in revenues. Clients will be served by a dedicated team of bookkeepers and controllers at the Houston-based GrowthForce Service Center. 
Apollo Sales & Marketing Group reviews the recent marketing hype surrounding the recession.
What marketing strategies should you try in this economy? You may be surprised to learn
that the best ideas today are not so new.
You can save money by bidding out your electricity expenses. Texas Power Consultants
offers a plan on how businesses can determine the best electricity price. 
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QuickBooks Tips Free Upgrade to QuickBooks 2010 If you purchase QuickBooks now, you can receive a free download to upgrade to QuickBooks 2010 when it is released. Qualifying customers have through January 31, 2010 to contact Intuit, or GrowthForce, to get their free upgrade. The free upgrade is by download only. A CD is $14.95 plus tax. For more information about this free upgrade, click here. Verify Data in QuickBooks Weekly Per recent feedback from Intuit, the "Verify Data" utility should be run on a weekly basis to help prevent data corruption. The Verify Data utility (Verify) is your primary tool for detecting data damage in your company file.To quickly see how you can verify data, click here. For more information about the Verify Data utility, click here. Release 8 Provides Changes to Online Banking If you missed the Alert we sent out earlier this month, QuickBooks 2009 Release 8 makes significant fixes, most noticeably in Online Banking.You should have been prompted to install the release unless you have turned off the automatic update option. For help installing Release 8, click here. For more information click here. Upcoming Events: QuickBooks Training ClassTaught by GrowthForce Senior Manager of Accounting Systems, Tues., Sept. 22, 2009 This introduction to the QuickBooks system offers everything a novice user of QuickBooks needs to know to get started. You'll learn about creating Lists, Chart of Account, Items, Centers, bank account and balance sheet activities, selling and paying for goods and services, reporting results, tracking time, designing forms and letters. The cost is just $299 per person. Discounts are available for multiple attendees from one company. Each attendee will receive a comprehensive QB training procedure guide and eight hours of CPE credit. Houston CPA Society 2nd Annual CFO/Controllers Conference
Fri., Sept. 18, 2009 This conference covers several important topics, such as: What a stakeholder expects of the CFO/Controller, Employment Law updates, Employee benefits issues, Enterprise risk management and more. The cost is $225 for CPA Society members and $275 for non-members. QuickBooks for Non-Profits, Unleashing the Power in your World Wed., Sept. 23, 2009 For more info, contact Jerome Vielman at 713.527.9330 or jerome@haatx.com. QuickBase Webinar Every Thursday at 2 p.m., Starting
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