While I see your argument, I tend to hold the idea that focusing on getting the year current was more important.
SGMD has a new accounting system and team, so they likely had to go through every nickel inputting it into the new system. The change of a system, data migration, likely data architecture/schema change, QA and implementation can be an extensive process. Honestly the fact they got out the previous years info within 3 months of changing systems is impressive. I'm not sure how the previous data was stored so I can't comment on how quick the transition should have taken place.
I'd like to know if the new system is a reoccurring charge and who owns the data. I'm not sure if we purchased the software and put it on one of our boxes or pay an annual service charge. Both obviously have advantages and disadvantages, but moving to a new system now was definitely beneficial for longer term sustainability. Who is our IT guru again? Is it frontloading who knows? If we plan to grow at as rapid of a pace as we plan on, I hope we have some team members with some decent infrastructure vision/knowledge. And I'm sure we do now thanks to our pals at BizRight. They aren't doing +30 mil without some sort of IT knowledge.
Don't know how I ended up on this rant haha, but I guess what I'm getting at is I feel like we will be more efficient going forward with reporting with the new system.
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