Kele Community Blog

Let’s face it, y’all (yes, you’re dealing with a true Southerner here), no one likes to get an invoice. In fact, I hate getting an invoice, because it means I owe somebody money (yes, you’re also dealing with a tightwad, which is why I found a home in the accounting world).

What’s worse than one invoice is many invoices. And if you’re a business owner, you probably see a lot of invoices at once. Creating an effective accounts payable process to manage all these can be a real headache. So we at Kele want to make this necessary evil as painless (and cheap) as possible. Here’s what we’re doing for our customers:  (Continue Reading)

This past weekend, we were just back from a trip to market, and my wife was busy stowing the fruits, veggies, oils, kimchi, and spices. I was doing my usual chore of qualifying and sorting the plastic shopping bags as to fitness for cat litter duty, kitchen waste duty, and “other,” based on leakage potential. I’m sure all of you engineers out there know the drill, so I won’t belabor it. Since this is a simple test routine that requires very little thought (as long as the cat’s asleep), my mind wandered into the realm of strange electrical anomalies, as my mind tends to do at such times… (Continue Reading)

At Kele, one of the things we do is answer lots of questions from customers. Looking back over more than 20 years of customer questions, one stands out. It’s the question we hear most often, and it has two parts. It usually starts like this: “I’ve got a bet with So-and-So in the next office, and your answer determines the winner . . . How do you pronounce the name of your company, anyway?”  (Continue Reading)