401(k) report
The output is only as good as the input
Part of what I do in my current work is produce ad hoc reports. I often am asked about the information in them because it doesn’t appear to match what decision makers had assumed.
The information on the reports is only as good as the raw data that exists in the system, I tell them. [...]
Expanding the 401(k) reporting tool
As the company grows, the need to be able to report on client’s using the 401(k) plan does as well. We are adding clients to additional databases, and that has meant that the 401(k) reporting tool needed to be updated so that the user can identify which clients are participating in the company plan.
Using [...]
Fixing the client’s 401(k) reporting application to make it run better
The company didn’t have a process in place to make sure that this one client receives their 401(k) information on a regular basis. I had developed an application last fall for this specific client to produce the information, but there was no one set up specifically to run the application on a regular basis.
I [...]
One hour of unexpected work saves another several hours of work!
Two hours ago… I got an instant message from our HR Manager. She’s trying to balance out the 401(k) plans for 2005 and was missing information from a client who was put in a database with other clients who only opt to use us to do their payroll. The desktop application I had developed [...]
Exposing SQL tables so that user can indicate 401(k) participation
A little bit more about the corporate 401(k) application, along with a discussion about how our SQL Server databases are set up.
We have clients set up that for different business reasons we’ve put into separate databases. We have a dedicated server for all the individual SQL server databases. As the company continues to [...]
