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This article is an overview of Human Resources Information System. First of all, it introduces that HRIS is a software solution for small to mid-sized businesses to help automate and manage their HR, payroll, management and accounting activities. Secondly, a HRIS would provide the capability to more effectively plan, control and manage HR costs. Besides, a HRIS also facilitates communication processed and save paper by providing an easily-accessible, centralized location for company policies, announcements, and links to external URL's. Last but not the least one, an affordable Human Resource Information System (HRIS), allows companies to manage their workforce through two powerful main components: HR& Payroll.

This article provides a general understanding of human resources information system. A HRIS generally offers the capability to more effectively plan, control and manage HR costs. Besides, it helps achieve improved efficiency and quality in HR desicion making as well as improve employee and managerial productivity and effectiveness.

"A HRIS, or Human Resource Information System, is a software solution for small to mid-sized businesses to help automate and manage their HR, payroll, management and accounting activities."

Cloud-based systems are a great way to keep track of a business anywhere you are. They are also great to keep people connected and informed of what they need to know. Sage Intacct is a cloud-based accounting software that is great for hotels, restaurant chains, entertainment venues, resorts, clubs, or other hospitality businesses. It automates hospitality accounting and financial management to give greater visibility into one's business and help make decisions to boost profitability. With the system, your staff can enter and view information for specific properties and locations, without seeing the financials for other sites and businesses. It has features such as franchise operations, fractional ownership, global business units, and other complex holding structures. The greatest part of this system is that it helps keep up with evolving revenue recognition requirements. The system is also great for different ways of measuring performance by viewing accounting and finance information of individual locations, groups of locations, concept, region and/or other dimensions.

This article gives a solid overview of hotel and restaurant accounting systems and presents the vender's perspectives.

The article I read was called "Accounting Software for Restaurants" in the article it said that many restaurants owners opened their business for their desire of food or their love for friendly surroundings. Most restaurant owners highly ever talk about their finances or accounting systems, yet they all should know how much money they are making and what percent of that money is profit. Every accounting system has a general list of assets and liabilities for the restaurant, which in other words means what the restaurant owns and what it owes. "These bookkeeping functions can be performed with a checkbook and a ledger pad (not recommended), a general-purpose accounting package like QuickBooks or Sage 50, or with special-purpose financial systems designed specifically for restaurants. High-end packages include point-of-sale terminals, menu planning, cost accounting, inventory, payables, receivables and other food service-specific features." Accounting software's allow you to see the general ledger, profit and loss, cash flow, and basic inventory. These software's are not only easy to use but they also save you a lot of time in the long run. When choosing software for your restaurant, start by looking at the business plans and see what your business can afford. It's best to talk with an accountant to find out what will be needed for tax reporting and license renewals, they will help you find out how much to spent up front and each month.

I know of very few aphorisms that tend to be repeated as smugly as this one, particularly by scared people. The implication is that action is generally to be avoided, that the status quo is probably just fine, and that one should wait for a true crisis before intervening. And, of course, that it's your fault if you've ignored this sage advice and intervened anyway. It's ironic, then, how IT departments themselves end up complaining endlessly about how they're always in fire-fighting mode. This prevailing attitude evolves among (and is a telling symptom of) burned-out sysadmins and developers, especially those who are stuck maintaining systems they didn't themselves write or engineer. It can be equally summed up as a "don't touch it, don't breathe on it" kind of superstition. Or, perhaps, it's akin to the proud but defensive statement that "we've always done it that way."

With smartphones evlving and getting smarter, smaller and speedier it is allowing for advances in mobile point-of-sale technology especially in the restaurant industr. There are now numerous POS platforms that support both iPhone as well as android. Tablets and iPads are also supported so that restaurants can process payments in the field with a credit card reader. Traditionally POS have been very costly and structured; now with mobile technology the flexibility is convenient, fast and user friendly. New applications allow restaurants to store customer spending patterns without retaining their personal credit card information. the use of smartphones also opens up very exciting opportunities when it comes to business-consumer communication. Restaurants can send text messages containg discounted coupons to their establishments. The key is to not over do it as customers may become annoyed with too many text messages. This article delat mainly with the restaurant industry but did mention the evolution of technological advances with the use of smart phones. Form personal experience I have used my iphone and ipad to conduct credit card transactions utilzing squareD which provides free of charge a mobile credit card swiper that is connected to the microphone port of either the iphone or Ipad. there is not monthly contract or fee. The only charge is 2.5% per settled credit card transaction and the amount is automatically deducted from the batched amount and within 1-2 business days the funds are deposited directly into ones checking/savings account. This is convenient, fast, and easy. I have been able to secure payment right on the spot instead of either handling cash which is always a ahzard or the risk of accepting checks. the use of smartphones and tbalets have revolutionozed the way business is being conducted making it fast, easy, and convenient to both cutomer and busoness owner alike.

Cancun Resort was growing beyond past the ability to hand enter employee data. They needed a HRIS. They needed a system that could scale up with their growth but could not afford the expensive People Soft which based on my search of articles is a problem for most small to midsize companies. Typically companies buy a HRMS like Ascentis, Epicor HCM, People Strategy Inc or Sage Abra HRIS to name a few software companies. Its seems that HRIS systems can cost anywhere from a couple thousand to a couple million. Pricing costs increase with the number of employees. In this case study the Cancun Resort needed a reasonable priced system and Ascentis was their answer for a scalable system that was user friendly, produced automated reports like EEOC, sent employee birthday and anniversary alerts, automatic inputs of time and attendance, handled payroll benefits, and captured absentee trends. On the Ascentis website there are also other case studies and a video of the Mandarin Oriental HR director.

Security has always been an issue for financial services which led to avoidance of some new technology systems. Due to advancements in cloud systems, I think it is time for financial services arms of hospitality organizations to reap the increasing number of benefits of cloud computing. Also, cloud-based financial Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) helps companies enter new markets, explore new opportunities, and strengthen their business processes. Cloud-based financial ERP has certainly helped Tetherow Resort by reducing costs and allowing their finance department to concentrate on their strategic business matters rather than dealing with IT and infrastructure issues. By switching to a cloud-based system, Tetherow Resort was able to reduce the amount of infrastructure stored onsite, reduce costs of the process and develop new strategic plans. In my view, there is a huge potential in cloud-based financial ERP in for financial and even non-financial companies, because through this system companies' finance departments are able to increase the efficiency of their operations.

Plate IQ has formed a partnership with Square announcing an integration with Square's new Restaurant service. Plate IQ's daily dales software enables restaurants to "automatically input guest payment data from Square for Restaurants into many existing accounting software platforms and create valuable summaries of daily transactions." This integration has multiple benefits including more accurate, faster and detailed bookkeeping and more efficient cost of goods sold management. At my restaurant, we use a very similar software to this called Avero. Avero is integrated with our Aloha POS system and the information is automatically inputted every morning from the day before. As a General Manager, I find software like this necessary to day to day operations. It enables me to generate reports on product mixes, individual server sales, categorical sales and even enables me to monitor labor compared to my revenue.

Hospitality Accounting Software is the primary function of the hotels daily functions. This department helps to predict the revenue and expenses of the hotel while maintaining company standards. Many developments over the years has allows many features to be added in software that specialize in accounting. Features such as financial transactions, accounts payable for vendors and labor tracking. With the due and growing stress of accounting daily challenges many properties have now upgraded their systems where many departments can help take the workload off the accounting department.

This article explains the accounting process in the hotels. The article goes in great detail of how the training goes for the employee in charge of the accounting of the hotel and the different softwares and technology they use to help them. With these different types of softwares it helps them record the accounting of the hotel.

The article talks about the importance to keep accounting records. Which are the reasons to do that. The ways depending on the budget to keep the records. Accounting software is one of the ways.

This article on Chron can be viewed as a general guide for people who are willing to improve accounting in their businesses, especially restaurants. It has discussed different ways and steps of keeping accounting records, along with some important indicators of the health of the restaurant.