Skipping Past that Broken Record

Will Wellman

I’ll be honest … I was, without a doubt, a challenging child. There are countless stories in my family of the terror I inflicted on my parents and siblings. Myriad tales involve bubble gum. I apparently had a bad habit of sticking chewing gum all around the house and in the hair of my brother. To this day, he still gets nervous whenever I take out the Juicy Fruit.

But, if you were to ask my mother, she would undoubtedly say I was at my most challenging whenever we were driving somewhere. I was a “broken record” for every trip. I was the child who relentlessly asked if we were there yet. Whether it was an amusement park 2 hours away or the local grocery store 10 minutes away, I was in the back of the car being a broken record.

Recording journal entries can sometimes feel like you’re listening to a broken record, endlessly repeating and repeating—but it doesn’t have to be that way.

There are numerous efficiency tools and record options that will ease the process. But knowing how to use them is the key. That’s why we’re happy to announce a new 90-minute Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT course, Managing Account, Project, and Journal Entry Records, designed to help you streamline your transaction entry and stop that broken record from spinning. 

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