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 Remembering the mind of Danny Klinefelter, BOOST/23 Ag Software Success Summit, August blogs, time machine, malevolent Microsoft update?

| Not rendering correctly? View this email as a web page here. FarmSMART                    August 2023 "Great Scott, a bonnie tuathanas." Dear Friend, August is an ideal time to slow down and look back on low-tech family farming "James Herriot" style in the Argyle Highlands.  Or you could speed up and look ahead to the latest high-tech updates.  It's all here in our "Great Scott" edition of FarmSmart. Remembering the transformational mind of Danny Klinefelter. BOOST/23 Ag Software Success Summit. Catch our August Farm Management Accounting blog posts.  "Great Scott, Marty, it's a time machine!" Malevolent Microsoft update?                                    SDG Remembering the Transformational Mind of Danny Klinefelter Before there were Farm Financial Standards (FFS), TEPAP, or AAPEX, there existed the transformational mind of Dr. Danny Klinefelter.  Our first encounter with Danny was in1983 as we translated Coordinated Financial Statements for Agriculture (CFS) from paper forms into software.  The Farm Crisis of the 80s was raging and  Danny and Dr. Tom Frey from the University of Illinois responded by authoring a financial "cookbook" that converted cash-basis tax records and physical inventories into adjusted accrual analysis as well as documented the tie-out/coordination between financial statements.  Ten years later, this process was effectively adopted by the Farm Financial Standard Task Force (which became the FFS Council).  Watch Danny's presentation of "Twelve Things That 98 % of Ag Producers Don't Do" from the 2015 FBS User Conference. No thought leader has transformed the business mindset of agriculture more than Danny.  Read his obituary here. Join us and your fellow production agriculture executives in Moline, Illinois, on November 14 and 15 as we launch the most significant transition and transformation in FBS history at the BOOST/23 Ag Software Success Summit.  You 'll receive first-hand experience in the following: Groundbreaking technology as we introduce our fifth-generation Version 12.1 .NET/SQL open architecture platform. Updated tools and training as you discover how you'll be able to plug into 12.1 to connect the wide world of agriculture through the cloud.  Benefit from the power of a winning team as you network with MASA experts and your peers from across North America. Click here for more information and here to register. August Farm Management Accounting Blog Posts WHY MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING STILL NEEDS FARM ENTERPRISE ANALYSIS Farm enterprise analysis, or the practice of analyzing your cost centers, profit centers, and assets in your various farming operations to identify... READ ARTICLE >>   HOW A FARM ERP SOLUTION CAN HELP YOU MANAGE AG MARGINS The idiom “lean and mean” often refers to someone getting in shape and preparing for a challenge. It’s not too far off, honestly, when we refer to... READ ARTICLE >> AG SPECIFIC VS OFF THE SHELF FARM MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE Finding ways to improve the profitability of your farm is crucial for your long-term success. Farm management software can play an enormous role in... READ ARTICLE >> DOES MARGIN ANALYSIS REQUIRE ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING? Margin analysis, or marginal analysis, is the practice of examining the cost of a good or service versus the potential benefit of that good or... READ ARTICLE >> "Great Scott, Marty, It's A Time Machine!"  What if you could go back to DOS days to retrieve priceless historical accounting data?  If that data was recorded in FBS, and you locate the right vintage computer, employ an FBS-qualified "Doc" to supervise, and plug the flux capacitor into a 1.21 gigawatts power source, you might be able to pull it off.  Even if your copy of FBS is "slightly" dated we might be able to bring you back up to speed (maybe even 88 MPH?), but you need to act now while our time machine is still operating.  Contact sales@fbssystems.com. "Great Scott, it just might work!" Q&A: Malevolent Microsoft Update?  Q.  All of a sudden I'd receiving this weird error in FBS:  "MICROSOFT.ACE.OLEDB provider is not registered on the local machine".  Sarah Dixon, FBS Support Coordinator sarah@fbssystems.com (800.437.7638/extension 100).  A.  We think this is being triggered by a recent Microsoft update.  If you see this error the quickest way to fix this is to re-install our common components off of the downloaded installer or CD installer.  For example, the installer on the Version 11.8 CD is called "FBS_11.8.exe," so double-click on that file (or the file you have downloaded from the cloud). When the installation processes reach the screen that asks which components to install, uncheck everything except for the line at the very bottom for Active X Controls and proceed with the installation.  Then you should be good to go!      FBS Systems, Inc.   Box 185  601 SE 19th Avenue Suite 2  Aledo,  IL   61231   US You received this email because you are subscribed to Newsletter from FBS Systems, Inc.. Update your email preferences to choose the types of emails you receive.  Unsubscribe from all future emails  |
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