Recent content by stevegriff

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    Commercial lease without a solicitor?

    Well i'd still be happy. If he wanted to sell i'd pay more than a 3rd party but he's collecting them not selling them unfortunately. There will be 3 yr break clauses and i am happy with the lease and cant see what additional concessions i could get. He doesn't charge me maintainence but hes not...
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    Commercial lease without a solicitor?

    I know i'm mad but... I have been in a property for 18yrs with a commercial lease. I want to take a lease on the other half of the property from the same landlord on an identical lease. I have had other leases, i am not naive and ultimately the landlord is a gem. I can register the lease but...
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    Mamut Accounting software - My experience

    We experienced all these kind of issues with mamut, the vat was the most serious. Mamut support couldnt even see there was a problem. We had to re-do all our accounts on quickbooks. It was then that we realised it saved 50% of our book-keeping time by using quickbooks even though you have to...
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    Myob/Mamut big problem for our business

    The whole situation sucks but there are plenty of good accounting packages out there which dont have to be that expensive. Mamut is definitely not one of them, its a very poor piece of software in all aspects. Dont be tempted to try it. If you have stock , and we have very complex stock , then...
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    new accounting software

    We moved from myob (10 years) to mamut for one painful year and now we are on quickbooks which i think is as easy or easier than myob. Mamut is very long winded, has a long learning curve, is very expensive because of the subscrition and you will struggle to find a book-keeper, if you do it will...
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    Mamut Accounting software - My experience

    We started using the E5 product for a year and had numerous issues with it. We had to switch to quickbooks in the end as we found the accounting side very time consuming and problematic. Having switched to quickbooks and our accounting went from 8 hours a week to 3 hours. Also we could get a...
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    Myob/Mamut big problem for our business

    We switched to mamut early 2009, after 12 years with myob, as we were in the emarket for a product that had more functionality on the purchasing side. Big mistake , the switchover was hampered by there so called integration tool which was a joke and the fact the staff didnt seem to know how to...