Network Management Group, Inc.

Special offer for all of our members:

1. Discounted rate for Technology Assessment of your firm. NMGI will perform a Technology Assessment (see description on the lower left) for a fee of $4,000 ($800 per day) plus expenses. Other consulting firms that could provide these services are typically charging anywhere from $2,000 - $5,000 per day – this means a savings for you of at least $1,200 per day.

2. Instant access to NMGI's support system and staff of technology experts via a special email address set up for CPAmerica members. Use tech@cpamerica.org to quickly reach the technology experts at NMGI and receive Advice or help with technology in your firm.

3. If NMGI cannot answer your questions quickly but you have a need for which you'd like to engage NMGI, they offer CPAmerica members a preferred rate for the following services:

• Partner Consulting
  For CPAmerica Members: $300 per hour / $2,500 per day
• Application/Network Consulting
  For CPAmerica Members: $180 per hour / $1,500 per day
• Technician Consulting
  For CPAmerica Members: $150 per hour / $1,200 per day

Network Management Group, Inc. (NMGI) is a leading technology and management services firm with expertise in training, planning and evaluation of high technology issues.

NMGI consultants Randolph Johnston and Robert Spencer, Ph.D., bring more than 65 years of combined experience in information technology support to CPAmerica. Johnston and Spencer are each listed in Accounting Technology magazine as among the top technology professionals in the industry. Both men have been featured speakers at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) technology conference for more than 15 years.

Some of characteristics of NMGI include:

• A professional service firm offering a wide range of technology and management services to clients nationwide
• Provides hardware services, IT support services, managed services, network services and security
• Expertise in accounting technologies (hardware, software, CPE training)
• Has strategic alliances with key industry consultants in the US and abroad and is affiliated with Venture Tech Network – these affiliations allow them to deliver tech solutions incorporating more than 185,000 different products
• They evaluate a wide variety of system configurations
• Staff is certified with Microsoft, Novell, Compatia, Compaq
• Delivers 500 CPE seminar sessions annually in over 40 states

NMGI Technology Assessment

The NMGI Technology Assessment provides your firm with an independent checkup of how your firm has utilized and deployed technology compared to industry best practices for a fee of $4,000 ($800 per day) plus expenses. The result of this assessment will be a report outlining both general and specific Findings and Recommendations that can be used by your firm to map a technology strategy going forward and identify those areas of technology utilization where your firm may be able to improve.

In addition, as NMGI completes each Technology Assessment engagement, the results of these engagements will become the foundation for establishing an overall Technology Strategy for CPAmerica as an association. By completing a Technology Assessment engagement with NMGI, you will be contributing to establishing an association baseline from which CPAmerica can create programs and services for things such as training, hardware discounts, software discounts, etc. that will increase the value of your firm’s association membership!

Just exactly what is NMGI’s Technology Assessment? The following bullets provide a quick overview of the scope of an NMGI Technology Assessment:

• Initial conversation regarding firm background and needs
• Submission of general documents prior to NMGI’s visit
• Two days on-site at your firm with up to another three days off-site preparing final report
• Opportunity for follow-up and access to discounts on additional services provided by NMGI

Technology Assessment Flyer

Technology Assessment Sample Engagement Letter

Technology Assessment Sample Final Report Table of Contents

If you have any additional questions regarding this NMGI Technology Assessment, you can either send an email to Info_Tech@CPAmerica.org or give us a call at (352) 727-4070.

CPAmerica does not specifically endorse the services of providers who have offered preferred pricing to our members. Member firms should use appropriate due diligence when booking such services.