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TAG-Finance will provide
Educational, knowledge-transfer, networking,
and mentoring opportunities
…In the fields of finance, accounting, tax and financial technology
…To the owners and decision makers
…Of Georgia's technology firms. 

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Calendar of Events:
*CPE Credits Available for Upcoming Events 


 

Upcoming Events

When

Topic

 07/13/2010
Regulatory Issues and Risk Management

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Past Events 

When

Topic

5/12/2010 How do Technology Companies Choose the Right Service Firm
   
12/2/2009

Effective Use of Search Engline Marketing

Search Engines and Trademark Law - Presentation

   
09/15/2009 Economic Update
   
 08/18/2009

Business Valuation

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 07/21/09

Total Cost of Ownership

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VMT LeanIT Calculator

VMT LeanIT Whitepaper


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TAG Finance Society Explores How BI Systems Can Help High-Tech Organizations Weather The Recession

Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics tools can and should have a positive impact on an organization’s ability to weather the economic downturn and help the
organization exit the downturn in a stronger market position. 

This is one of the key findings of a panel of industry executives at the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Finance Society in Atlanta recently.   The presentation was titled: “The Analytics of Business in a Down Economy – Can Business Intelligence Make a Difference?”

“Too many high-tech executives view the cost of Business Intelligence as an expensive luxury that they cannot afford,” said Don Campbell, President and CEO of Virtual Management Technologies, moderator of the panel. “A consensus of the panel was that small and midsize organizations need to take advantage of BI/Analytics technology to help themselves understand the strengths and weaknesses of their business and, most importantly, to leverage this information to implement changes that will have a positive impact on the future of the company.”
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Transforming Caterpillars in Butterflies: A Study of Emergent Organizations

The manner in which managers define the values of an emerging organization and how they put these values into practice have a measurable impact on an organization’s performance.  This is one of the key findings of nationwide market research conducted by Jake Messersmith, PhD, Assistant Professor of Management at George Washington University and recently presented to The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Finance Society.  

“My research analyzed the key factors that contribute to the success or failure of developing organizations,” said Dr. Messersmith. “We examined three key influences that impact the performance of an emerging firm: human resource policies and practices, the philosophy of partnership with employees and the entrepreneurial drive and orientation that are embedded in the organization’s makeup.”

“This research is particularly relevant to the many emerging high-tech companies throughout Georgia,” said Don Campbell, President and CEO of Virtual Management Technologies and moderator of the seminar.  “Dr. Messersmith’s research validates that value-based management systems can yield measurable improvements in operations ranging from increases in sales and lower turnover to improvements in innovation.”

TAG Finance IFRS - Much More than a Technical Accounting Exercise 

Getting the debits and credits right is certainly important. But the impact of a move to IFRS will be felt far beyond the Accounting department. This was the topic of a seminar hosted by the Technology Association of Georgia’s (TAG) Finance Society.

Todd Markus, The VP of Accounting & Finance and Enterprise Governance at Accretive Solutions & Mike Beaty, Managing Director, Advisory Services, KPMG LLP hosted an exciting program that focused on the IFRS Roadmap and the impact that the conversion to IFRS would have on the following areas:
 
• Accounting policies & investor relations
• SOX compliance, internal audit and enterprise risk management
• ERP systems and the overall IT environment

This seminar highlighted that the adoption of IFRS still remains several years away but the time to assess the impact of IFRS is now.  Today, tomorrow and in the very near future, every company will make investments in process, controls and information systems that will ultimately be impacted by the conversion to IFRS. Understanding how the conversion to IFRS will specifically affect your company is critical to ensuring that decisions being made today incorporate the requirements that will be needed to effect the most efficient conversion to IFRS. For a copy of the TAG Finance presentation

TAG Finance Legal Priorities Seminar

Strict data protection and data privacy regulations, intellectual property protection and human resource practices are some of the key priorities today’s high-tech executives must balance in managing their organization’s legal priorities.  These were among the key discussion points at a management seminar held November 11, 2008 by the Technology Association of Georgia’s (TAG) Finance Society.  The seminar was titled: “Defining your High-Tech Organization’s Legal Priorities.” The seminar was geared to executives facing the challenge of balancing the many legal priorities they face.   

“Whether you’re an early stage company or a mature organization, high tech executives need to understand the changing playing field of legal standards,” noted Don Campbell, President and CEO of Virtual Management Technologies, and Moderator of the Seminar. “The legal standards for data protection and privacy, for example, have evolved rapidly over the past year and executives need to understand how these changes will impact their business.” 
 
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TAG Finance Evaluates the Economics and Strategy behind Software as a Service

 

TAG Finance sponsored a seminar on one of the newest, yet oldest, technologies available to organizations today – Software as a Service (SaaS). Why the oldest?  SaaS has similar underpinnings to the 1960’s and 1970’s when application time-sharing was the least expensive way to gain access to administrative applications such as payroll and accounting for many organizations.   SaaS delivers as similar model wherein mid-sized organizations can get the power of sophisticated and feature-rich applications delivered via the web.  Key panelists such as Jeff Pyden, Managing Director of OmniVue Business Solutions and Alan MacLamroc, Chief Product and Technology Officer at CDC Software discussed the state of the industry in delivering viable SaaS solutions.  To review the TAG Finance presentation please click here.
 


Is your organization secure – enterprise wide?

“39 percent of executive decision makers at Fortune 100 companies labeled IT Security a significant concern and Enterprise Risk Management as their number one concern over the coming 12 months,” according to Rodney Deli-Gatti, Accretive Solutions, a national professional services firm with over 1,100 professionals.  Building a security model that supports the organizations entire footprint is critical in managing today’s multi-location and international businesses.  TAG Finance sponsored a seminar that highlighted many of the issues executives believe today are impacting their success and ability to grow profitably.  The seminar presented a security model that is business focused, in which business is driving and IT is supporting. “The key is taking a long term strategic approach that carefully aligns Information Security,” says Mr. Delli-Gatti.  “The governance, risk and optimization model must encompass a holistic approach.” For a copy of the TAG Finance presentation, please click here.


TAG Finance Library of Whitepapers & Presentations

Planning do's and don'ts to position your business to optimize 'take out value' in today's business environment
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If only I'd known:10 top gotchas from experienced (read: bruised) high tech executives

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The Economics of Business Process Outsourcing

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"Streamlined Sale Tax Almost Here! Is it a Curse or a Blessing

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Our Board Members:

 

 

Dave Chambless, Chair
Abraxas Business Services
dchambless(at)abraxas.biz
Dan Branch
Taylor Consulting
DBranch(at)taylorconsultinggroup.com
John Carpentier
Tarpley & Underwood
jcarpentier(at)t-u.com
Don Campbell
Virtual Management Technologies
donc(at)vmtech.net
Rosalie Collado
KPMG
rcollado(at)kpmg.com
Deborah Cox
Interacting Dynamics
cox9481(at)bellsouth.net
Justin Daniels
 Wagner, Johnston & Rosenthal
jsd(at)wjrlaw.com
Dick Walleshauser
Chamberlain Hrdlicka
richard.walleshauser(at)chamberlainlaw.com
Peter Harris
OmniVue Business Solutions
pharris(at)omnivue.net
John Hayes
FTRANS
 
Carter Johnson
LexisNexis
carter.johnson(at)lexisnexis.com
Om Kundu
SunTrust Banks, Inc.
om.kundu(at)suntrust.com
Billy Lovett
One Georgia Bank
billy.lovett(at)onegeorgiabank.com
Barbara Martin
Technology Association of Georgia
Barbara(at)tagonline.org
Brian Nash
Stites & Harbison
bnash(at)stites.com
Mike Stanford
Homrich Berg
stanford(at)homrichberg.com
Dick Walleshauser
Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin
Richard.Walleshauser(at)chamberlainlaw.com

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