Key Stroke Of Genius
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The document addresses the stress and inefficiencies faced by accounting departments during month-end close due to excessive data entry tasks. It proposes solutions to measure and reduce the number of keystrokes and streamline processes, aiming to enhance productivity and reduce costs. The authors offer financial incentives for achieving these improvements while encouraging meaningful work over mundane tasks.
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- 1. Is your accounting department ever stressed during month-end close or other periods with high data entry? TM
- 2. Keystroke of Genius TM
- 3. Stress in accounting is caused by the enormous number of inputs, keystrokes, and button presses that must be performed correctly and in a short period of time. Inputs = Stress Time TM
- 4. Input count makes staff skip lunch, stay late, and miss other important commitments! TM
- 5. What if you could help your accounting go from stressed out to freed up? TM
- 6. Do your priorities and our offering fit? TM
- 7. Too busy to measure the number of keystrokes... mouse movements... button presses... application switches... and seconds... are spent processing each invoice and document? TM
- 8. Get it measured in a single day! (and then reduce it) TM
- 9. Measurements define a better path. Willing to take it? TM
- 10. Currently You rework the exact same data because your systems dont talk to each other! and.... TM
- 11. You spend extra effort accessing and navigating useless fields and forms! and TM
- 12. You enter data no longer used for anything! and TM
- 13. You perform mundane manual tasks that can be fully automated! and TM
- 14. You could be faster and smoother without switching to a new system. TM
- 15. Are you committed to reducing data entry costs drastically? TM
- 16. Do meaningful work. Stop doing meaningless work. TM
- 17. Our goal is to help your entire team be happier, more productive, and more valuable. TM
- 18. Why Were Incentivized to Help You 1. $4 per hour saved plus 2. $1.00 per 1000 keystrokes saved plus 3. $1000 for every accounting staff who gives us 4 stars out of a possible 4 (KOG is clearly better and we should not go back to our previous way) TM
- 19. Thank you Kirk Conole Kevin Wang (888) 395-0809 TM