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IAC-EZ: Bookkeeping in nursery rhymes

For the next few blogs, we’re looking at well-known nursery rhymes and seeing how things might be different if IAC-EZ were doing the bookkeeping.

Today’s nursery rhyme is:

Baa, baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir,
Three bags full;
One for the master,
And one for the dame,
And one for the little boy
Who lives down the lane.

I don’t know much about sheep shearing but it seems to me that 3 bags of wool is pretty impressive. (I guess I’m thinking of garbage bag size bags but, admittedly, that’s just what came to mind).

IAC-EZ can help out here in a few ways: First of all, IAC-EZ is easy enough that even a sheep can use our software. All that’s required is a credit card for the monthly payment and opposable thumbs to move the mouse around. Otherwise, we’re very “animal friendly” around here. We’d recommend that the sheep set up individual customer accounts for the master, the dame, and the little boy. That way, he can track his accounts receivables and see which of his customers are the most profitable.

Jessica Routier, IAC-EZ

IAC-EZ: Bookkeeping in nursery rhymes

We like to have a little fun around here. Not too much fun but a bit. (Just kidding). So to lighten the mood (because numbers can seem less-than-exciting at times) we’re going into a blogging frenzy in which we’ll look at one nursery rhyme for the next five posts and blog about how IAC-EZ would have changed the story:

Today’s nursery rhyme is:

Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye,
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened the birds began to sing,
Oh wasn’t that a dainty dish to set before the king?

The king was in his counting house counting out his money,
The queen was in the parlor eating bread and honey
The maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes,
When down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose!

Okay, first of all, IAC-EZ may not be able to help with the serious lack of cooking skills that are going on in this castle, nor can we do much about the scourge of blackbirds that apparently is harassing everyone. However, we could make it easier for the king by helping him to count his money for him. In fact, if he let IAC-EZ do his bookkeeping, he might uncover some extra money to hire better kitchen help who would scare away the blackbirds. Fewer blackbirds would mean that his wife wouldn’t be forced to hide out in the parlor eating bread and honey instead of pie. And, fewer blackbirds would have also avoided the employee lawsuit he’ll likely be slapped with from his nose-less maid.

Jessica Routier, IAC-EZ

Giving Back

Every month, IAC-EZ does its part to give back to the community in some way. We do this through philanthropic efforts around the office, we try to reduce our environmental impact, and we share a portion of the proceeds from all new sign-ups with a selected charity of the month.

This month, our featured charity is the Susan G. Komen For The Cure Foundation. They have a great mission: To end breast cancer forever!

We usually like numbers around here but we don’t like these numbers: According to http://www.breastcancer.org, 1 in 8 will suffer from breast cancer in their lifetime; and in 2008, over 182,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer was diagnosed in the United States. Although death rates have decreased, over 40,000 died from breast cancer in 2008.

Let’s stop those numbers. Since 1982, Susan G. Komen For The Cure has funded education and outreach to help women get the help, diagnosis, and treatment they deserve. Their website provides all kinds of information about breast cancer, treatment, research, lifestyle, and fundraising activities.

IAC-EZ’s contribution helps to support research grants and funding to help educate and promote screening. This is such a worthwhile cause.

Jessica Routier, IAC-EZ