Would you like to ensure uninterrupted service of your Red Wing Software Customer Care Plan, and save the time of paying your invoice manually? By signing up for automatic renewal, your current credit card information will be securely stored, and you will receive email notification prior to your card being billed. You will no longer receive a printed renewal form via the mail. To sign up for automatic Customer Care Plan renewal, visit My Account at www.redwingsoftware.com (you must be signed in), and you will be able to opt in to Auto-Renew during the renewal process.

• Julie’s (Sales Engineer) son Joey’s college team won the CCIW Indoor Conference Track Championship. Joey is one of the team captains and competes in vaulting. This was the first time the school has won the indoor championship.
• Connie’s (Technical Writing) oldest daughter was recently made the Captain of the University of Wisconsin Platteville dance team for 2016-2017.
• Roxie (Administrative Assistant) and her husband Steve welcomed granddaughter Vada Marie. Having four wonderful grandsons already, it was fun to shop for pink, ruffles and bling!

Laura Flory, a dairy producer at Hillside Farms and a Red Wing Software customer wrote a story entitled “An Ounce of Prevention” in the February 25th, 2016 issue of Progressive Dairyman.

Lori Butler of Paul Dotterer and Sons Dairy Farm and a Red Wing Software customer was featured in the March 12th, 2016 issue of Progressive Dairymen, in the story “Women’s Work: Operating Equipment isn′t Just for the Boys.”

Spring is here, at least on the calendar, and it’s a great time to do a little spring cleaning of your financial records. You are likely either going through the data for your 2015 tax return, or have recently completed it, so all of the information should be fresh in your mind. What a perfect time to review those things that took a little longer to figure out than they should, and fine-tune your system to make it easier for next year.

Maybe it’s a tweak to your chart of accounts. For instance, let’s say you have information spread across multiple accounts, and you now realize they could be combined into one account. Did you know there is a function in CenterPoint that will combine one or more accounts and all of the history into one account?

Or just a small change in the way you collect information or enter transactions could greatly reduce the time it takes to maintain the detail you need for reporting. In any event, take a few minutes and maybe even talk to others in your organization who deal with financial and other important data, and look at ways to make your business more efficient and profitable.

- Ken Hilton, President