To the business person, the word "technology" has become virtually synonymous with the word "computer." It is no accident that the Internet has become known as the "information highway." Technology in the business environment is almost exclusively used to store, process, calculate, format and deliver "information," ---in quantity, quality, and speed, which fifteen years ago was available only to giant governmental agencies and Fortune 500 corporations. The advent of the relatively inexpensive PC and all of the peripheral technology associated with it has placed "information technology" in its most sophisticated forms in the hands of the small business person.

There is a not so subtle irony to this absolute transformation of the small business environment. Government and huge corporations, with almost limitless resources, could not utilize information technology without large departments of highly trained specialists dedicated exclusively to its management. The CEO's of large corporations could not be found at night "tinkering" with their mainframes. Instead, technology with comparable capabilities is often used, operated and maintained by persons whose training and primary responsibilities are unrelated and whose time might be better spent doing other things, like selling, producing products, providing services, or even running the company. That is where we think that we can help!

McGill, Power, Bell & Associates, LLP has been a pioneer in the application of computer technology to financial and management information systems and business solutions since the 1970's. We were certainly one of the first firms in Northwestern Pennsylvania to acquire IBM mini-computers, and use them to provide accounting and data processing services to our clients. We are the only firm that we know of in our market area to program its own proprietary accounting software and to develop some of the most sophisticated job costing software for tool and die shops available anywhere in the United States.

We started the transition to PC's shortly after IBM introduced them, and we have continued to apply the most recent advances in PC-based computer technology to our own internal operations. It is this internal familiarity with information technology and our many years of providing service to our clients using it, that qualifies us to help you in many different ways.

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