Network Admins in accounting firms

[gbl]

I'm a network admin in a small accounting firm, managing about 25 workstations. I'd like to find out how other network admins in this size of an accounting firm are finding their job.

(1) Does your firm see training you as an investment or an expense?
(2) Does your firm provide you with any paid training, and if so how much a year are you getting, in terms of number of days paid training?
(2) Have any of you been asked to pay for your own training or found that your pay was readjusted to require you to absorb part of the cost?
(4) For those of you getting training at your firm, what has been the firm's biggest priority?
(5) Does your firm require you to generate revenue for your firm?

Thanks for any input!

 

[jtb]

A good Sysadmin can reduce TCO by implementing best practices and reducing complexity... You may be making more money for the firm than you know!!

TCO Manager for Distributed Computing, Chart of Accounts. Gartner Group, Inc.
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http://www4.gartner.com/4_decision_tools/modeling_tools/costcat.pdf>

GIGA Group.
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http://www.gigaweb.com/offerings/0,2403,tei,00.html>

META Group.
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http://www.metagroup.com/corporate/mgsun.htm>

A. T. Kearney.
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http://www.line56.com/research/download/line56_ebiz_outlook-2002.pdf>

HP/Compaq.
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http://www.compaq.com/tco/>

Dell.
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http://www.dell.com/us/en/k12/topics/tco_001_tco.htm>

IBM.
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http://www-3.ibm.com/software/success/cssdb.nsf/CS/NAVO-5BGNXK?OpenDocument&Site=software>

Sun Microsystems.
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http://www.sun.com/events/tcoseminar/>

JTB
Solutions Architect
MCSE-NT4, MCP+I, MCP-W2K, CCNA, CCDA,
CTE, MCIWD, i-Net+, Network+
(MCSA, MCSE-W2K, MCIWA, SCSA, SCNA in progress)

 

[ElijahBaley]

In my experience most small companies, particularly partnerships consider all non-revenue generating staff as costs and are very reluctant to pay for training etc

Small companies do not think in terms of 'TCO' and other buzzwords but look at reality on their balance sheets, if you can demonstrate cost savings by best practices then you may be acknowledged.

Thats my opinion,

EB