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Printwiser Estimating 10.0 Capital/Energy Estimate Summary Format Upgrade

Introducing, the Printwiser Estimating 10.0 Capital/Energy Estimate Summary Format upgrade, effective April, 2024. It introduces three new variables in computing the cost price, working capital cost (to cover bank interest on funds), energy cost and sales discount, to better meet the changing economic environment. Energy cost could have previously been represented by a rarely-used charge like excise duty, but is now properly represented on its own. Both working capital and energy cost are calculated as percentages of production cost. The upgrade introduces new formula for calculating some items, some new terminology on the estimate summary working sheet, includes working capital list and form for interest calculation and prorating, and a new hard/limp cover estimate summary report format.

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September 2024 In Brief

Printwiser Estimating v6.60 was upgraded for a client to the latest version 10.06, including the Capital/Energy Estimate Summary Format and flexible estimate spreadsheet options. Revisions were done on several MoneyBooks modules—Data Manager, General Ledger, Inventory, Employees and Fixed Assets, including the implementation of the default date option, one of the features of our legacy LeMIS application. Gerian Assistant, Lemeechi StockReader and our WEB241 custom search engine were also revised.

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Printwiser Estimating 9.0 Flexible Estimate Spreadsheet upgrade

Introducing, the Printwiser Estimating 9.0 Flexible Estimate Spreadsheet upgrade, effective April 11, 2022. It features what most estimators have probably been wishing for, the ability to combine the estimate summary and detailed working sheets into one simple spreadsheet format, one that readily exports to a spreadsheet file. Not only that, you get the option to choose just the columns to show in the spreadsheet. Another useful feature is being able to set up access shortcut to standalone backup databases and copy estimates to and fro directly.

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My 5th year at SFI

September 24 marked my 5th year with SFI. Was it a good year for me? What got better or was more, what remained the same or got worse? Read on, for these and other questions.

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July-August 2024 In Brief

Revisions or updates were done on several MoneyBooks modules—Data Manager, General Ledger, Inventory, Payroll and Sales—as well as Gerian Assistant and our WEB241 custom search engine. We migrated a user’s accounting data from our MSDOS legacy application LeMIS, to MoneyBooks. Finally, a web client’s website that went offline over a year ago for non-renewal, was brought back to life on their request.

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Now ranked #1 for Nigeria at SFI

From the beginning of June 2024, my Country Rank at SFI shot up from the 52nd position it was on May 31, to the 1st position. My Class Rank also went up to 1st from 2nd. Days and weeks later, I am still #1 in both areas. A great advancement from the Country Rank of 119 and Class Rank of 5 a year after joining SFI.

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May-June 2024 In Brief

Revisions or updates were done on MoneyBooks Accounts Payable, Gerian Assistant and MoneyBooks Data Manager. Following client feedback received on the cost analysis report, the Printwiser Estimating v10.05 update was created. A client was also visited towards meeting their payroll processing needs: Our two payroll solutions were presented, MoneyBooks Payroll, and MR-Payroll for FrontAccounting ERP that turned out more appealing to them for its ease-of-accesss, being browser-based.

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The new SFI, 2024 edition!

Few weeks back, SFI began preparing affiliates for a new system that had been under development for months. Its login page changed. A countdown in days, hours and minutes began showing atop the home page. The BizQuiz daily question got suspended, pending the new system. Even a “sneak peek” video was made and put on the site for people to see what was coming. Finally on June 1, 2024, the system went into effect, a more simplified one, focused on sales of its ECommergy e-commerce library. This has the potential of providing affiliates commissions from $5 to $70 per sale.

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Unpleasant experience with a TCurrency merchant

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Before April, I last purchased TCurrency in 2017. (That is a digital version of the US dollar strictly for use at SFI.) Back then, my account would be credited with the TCurrency dollars immediately after I paid for the order. (Those merchants are presently no longer…

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April 2024 In Brief

Work on Printwiser 10.0 upgrade was completed. Gerian 1.6 revision was done, with changes mainly to the Bit Bank Ledger for which the USD column was introduced, as SFI had changed their recording to use USD instead of SATs in January, and minor changes to the HIDDEN Form, Income List, Settings form and the Affiliate List.

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