The IT department of a school district supported itself by providing application development, database maintenance, training, and other services to its internal clients, although no money exchanged hands. The school’s outreach unit, which provided training and education to local organizations, also maintained its own profit and loss statement but was having issues with invoicing. Somehow the invoiced amount always seemed to be different from the quoted amount, which meant manual corrections, delays in receivables, and most important, unhappy clients.

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