Work more effectively!
Microsoft Office Accounting Professional 2008 is a complete accounting solution
designed for business owners, bookkeepers, and office managers in any company
with up to 25 employees. It requires no accounting experience to use and works
smoothly with the Microsoft Office programs you use every day. By organizing
financial information in one place, you will get a complete view of your
business and obtain valuable information for your interaction with customers.
Office Accounting Professional 2008 includes comprehensive tools for managing
your business finances more effectively so you can spend more time managing your
business.
- A complete accounting solution that helps small businesses save time
managing everyday financial tasks, get organized, and grow their business
online
- Familiar Microsoft Office interface that's easy to set up and use--no
training is needed
- Deep integration with other Microsoft Office programs helps streamline
necessary but time-consuming and repetitive accounting tasks
- Keeps all of your financial data and business information in one place,
making it easy to find the information you need to make better-informed
business decisions
- Features to help you easily sell online, get paid faster, and gain easy
access to credit reports
Microsoft Office Accounting Professional 2008 top 10 benefits
Office Accounting Professional 2008 is a complete accounting solution
that helps small businesses more efficiently and effectively manage
their business finances. Office Accounting Professional 2008 helps you
save time on everyday tasks, work the way you want, and organize all
your financial information in one place to get a complete view of your
business, all with the familiar look and feel of the Microsoft Office
system.
Here are the top 10 ways Office Accounting Professional 2008 can help
you be more productive.
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Get up and running quickly.
Office Accounting Professional 2008 is easy to set up and use, just like
other Microsoft Office programs. The Startup Wizard helps you get
started quickly so that you can create your first invoice and are able
to receive payments. The wizard imports your existing data from other
programs such as Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Money, and Intuit
QuickBooks so that you don't have to start from scratch. The Resource
Center offers a single location to access helpful information such as an
accountant finder, product demonstrations, community tools, and other
product resources.
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Save time on everyday tasks.
Office Accounting Professional 2008 simplifies everyday tasks: you enter
data once and then reuse it across commonly used Microsoft Office
programs, avoiding tedious reentry and errors. You can create quotes and
later convert them into invoices with just one click. Now you can
convert sales orders to purchase orders and automatically generate
purchase orders based on inventory levels. Office Accounting
Professional 2008 helps you conveniently manage payroll and track
transactions as you enter information, significantly reducing the time
spent on these tasks. You can also use online banking to receive
payments, pay bills, and automatically reconcile bank accounts.
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Save time by using business templates
Because Office Accounting Professional 2008 works smoothly with Office
Word, you can easily export quotes, sales orders, packing slips,
invoices, and other information to Word with a click. You can also
customize templates that come with Office Accounting Professional 2008
to create professional-looking materials and documents. Choose from
dozens of industry templates and Office Accounting automatically
configures itself to how you run your business.
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Get real-time insight into your business.
Personalize your company home page to get a snapshot of information such
as bank account balances, important reminders, and accounts receivable
and payable on one screen. Use the Cash Flow Analyzer to track and
forecast future cash flows to make better-informed business decisions.
Create budgets and then run reports to compare forecasts to actuals.
More than 70 predefined reports help you get critical financial
information on aspects of your business such as sales, profit and loss,
cash flow, item profitability, customer transactions, and much more. You
can even customize these reports by setting filters, and get deeper
insights into your business by using PivotTable dynamic views in Office
Excel.
- Tailor Office Accounting Professional 2008 to meet your needs.
Using Office Accounting Professional 2008, you can easily create quotes,
sales orders, invoices, purchase orders, reports, and more. You can
customize forms to include relevant information fields and export these
forms to Microsoft Office Word templates to sharpen the professional
appearance of marketing materials and financial documents. You have the
flexibility to create custom security roles and add or remove
permissions to control employee access to sensitive information.
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Simplify payroll and tax processes.
Payroll services for Office Accounting Professional 2008 enable you to
process payroll and to calculate and file local, federal, and state
taxes.1 Payroll for Office Accounting offers multiple payroll options to
meet your specific needs, and you can even print your paychecks through
Office Accounting Professional 2008. You can also import employee
timesheets and post the payroll and tax information to your books. Get
more information on the attractively priced Payroll services.
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Track employee time and job costs.
Office Accounting Professional 2008 helps you achieve more accurate and
timely employee billing. Working with Office Outlook 2007 with Business
Contact Manager, employees can mark appointments in their Outlook
calendars as billable time and, with a single click, transfer that
information to Office Accounting Professional 2008 to create invoices.
Office Accounting Professional 2008 also enables you track revenues and
expenses to monitor total job profitability, create multiple budgets,
compare actual revenue to projected revenue, and compare invoices versus
quotes for better business planning.
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Share information with your accountant or CPA.
Using the Accountant Transfer Export Wizard, you can send your financial
information to your accountant while you continue using Office
Accounting Professional 2008 to run your day-to-day business. When your
accountant is done updating the books, the changes get synchronized
automatically. Microsoft Office Live can help you share information with
security features with your accountant and others. The accountant also
has the option of remotely accessing your financial information.
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Sell on eBay.
With Office Accounting Professional 2008, you can reach out to millions
of potential customers on eBay. You can conveniently list items, check
listing status, download orders, and receive payments in real time.
After an item sells, all transaction records, including commissions and
fees, are downloaded directly into Office Accounting Professional 2008,
making both accounting and order processing more efficient. Support for
multiple currencies enables you to buy or sell items from other
countries.
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Use PayPal and Equifax to do business with confidence.
Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, you can generate an invoice that
includes an integrated PayPal option to help you get paid faster.
Customers simply click the PayPal link in the invoice to pay. Office
Accounting Professional 2008 also provides a credit card processing
option that does not require expensive terminals or a dedicated phone
line. And Office Accounting Professional 2008 provides easy access to
Equifax credit report services to obtain a one-time credit report or
ongoing credit monitoring to help you evaluate business risks and make
better decisions. Learn more about Equifax services for Office
Accounting Professional 2008.
Office Accounting Professional 2008 includes new features to help you get
started quickly, save time, sell online, and work more effectively with the
Microsoft Office system. Key enhancements include:
- New--Spanish language edition. Manage your business in either Spanish or
English. Switch between languages in just a few clicks, so you can manage
your accounting, create invoices and print reports in the language of your
choice.
- New--Office Accounting Resource Center. Get the most out of Office
Accounting with demos, step-by-step guides, training videos and community
forums, all conveniently available with one click in Office Accounting.
- New--Universal Import of Transactions. Import your existing financial data
including transaction history from virtually any accounting package into
Office Accounting via Microsoft Office Excel or CSV files.
- New--Budgeting tools. Easily create a budget in Office Accounting and
track how your budget compares with your actual results.
- New--Bulk e-mail of documents. Mail merge Office Accounting data so you
can email PDF or Word statements, invoices and other documents to multiple
customers in one transaction.
- New--Scheduled Documents. Memorize your recurring transactions such as
invoices or purchase orders to ensure nothing falls through the cracks.
Recurring transactions appear as reminders on your company dashboard on the
date you set.
- New--Convert sales orders into purchase orders. Save time and eliminate
additional data entry by automatically generating a purchase order from a
sales order.
- New--Re-order Inventory Automatically create purchase orders to replenish
inventory that has fallen below a minimum level you set.
- Improved--Streamlined Microsoft Office Excel data import. No need to map
fields from your spreadsheet to Office Accounting. Simply paste your
accounting data into our preformatted Excel spreadsheet for easy import into
Office Accounting.
- Improved--Business templates Choose from dozens of industry templates and
Office Accounting automatically configures itself to how you run your
business.
- Improved--Bulk processing of transactions. Process multiple transactions
such as customer invoices, vendor payments or purchase orders all at once to
save time.
- Improved--Enhanced reporting and analysis tool pack. Create your own
Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Office Access reports and add them to
the list of standard reports for easier access. Powerful analysis tools are
now incorporated directly into Office Accounting for easier access.
- Improved--Expanded online banking features. Office Accounting supports
more financial institutions than ever and sports a streamlined online
banking sign-up process. And you can now synchronize vendors in Office
Accounting 2008 with online payees you've set up with your bank.
- Improved--Preferred vendors. Designate preferred vendors for certain
documents to reduce data entry and save time.
- Improved--Status watermarks. Print professional looking watermarks such as
Paid or Not Paid on documents you send to customers.
Special Features for Accountants
- New--Accountant Business Template Export CPAs can set up clients with a
custom chart of accounts based on a template they create.
- New--Show/Hide voided documents. Instantly see voided transactions so you
can more easily spot mistakes or unusual transactions.
Save Time and Work More Efficiently
During a typical day, small business owners and employees rely on a variety of
documents to get their jobs done. Essential financial and customer information
can be stored in diverse places such as paper files, Excel spreadsheets, Word
forms, and other documents. In such a situation, accomplishing simple accounting
tasks such as creating customer quotes, invoices, and sales reports can be
time-consuming. Yet, for many small business owners and employees, the prospect
of switching to a new accounting solution, even if that solution would save them
time and resources, may be intimidating.
If your business is currently using any other accounting solution, Office
Accounting Professional 2008 provides an easy and fast way to switch to a
solution that will help you save time with everyday financial tasks. Office
Accounting Professional 2008 tools are easy to use and have the familiar look
and feel of the Microsoft Office system.
Get Started Quickly and Easily
Most small businesses do not have the time or IT staff to install and configure
complicated business software. Office Accounting Professional 2008 is easy to
set up and learn, so you can get started in just a few minutes. Because Office
Accounting Professional 2008 looks and feels like familiar Microsoft Office
programs, you can be productive right away with minimal effort or training.
Get Up and Running in Minutes
The Startup Wizard imports your existing accounting data from sources such as
Microsoft Office Excel, Intuit QuickBooks 2006 or earlier, and Microsoft Money.
The Startup Wizard gets your company's financial processes set up, connected,
and working right away so that you can be writing your first invoice within
minutes. Office Accounting Professional 2008 is intuitive and easy to use, and
it doesn't require extensive training to become proficient. Best of all, Office
Accounting Professional 2008 looks and works just like other familiar Microsoft
Office system programs.
If you are starting a new business, the Startup Wizard makes it easy to
select a list of your accounts and enter information about customers, vendors,
and items. Your accountant or CPA can also use the Startup Wizard to set up
accounts, taxes, and other accounting information.
The new Resource Center provides a single location to access helpful
information to get you started. Get the most out of Office Accounting with
demos, step-by-step guides, training videos and community forums, all
conveniently available with one click in the Office Accounting Resource Center.
Import Data from QuickBooks and Other Sources
Office Accounting Professional 2008 is designed to import data from many
sources. You can easily use existing financial information including transaction
history and not be concerned about starting from scratch or losing valuable
data. Import data from Microsoft Office system programs such as Excel and other
accounting software such as Intuit QuickBooks 2006 and Microsoft Money.
QuickBooks 2006 users can easily import their data by using the Convert from
QuickBooks Wizard. You can import all your QuickBooks data including master
records such as chart of accounts, customers, vendors, items, employees, and
supporting tables as well as beginning balances and transactions. If you are
using a previous version of Office Accounting Professional, such as Office
Accounting 2007, it is very easy to upgrade to Office Accounting Professional
2008.
Work in a Familiar Interface
Most small businesses rely on Microsoft Office programs to get work done. The
familiar Microsoft Office interface and functionality help people communicate
more effectively and be more productive right from the start. Office Accounting
Professional 2008 helps extend that ease of use and productivity to managing
your company's finances.
A Navigation Pane provides centralized navigation and easy access to home
pages to start commonly performed tasks. Office Accounting Professional 2008 is
so easy to use that you can be productive right away, whether you are new to
accounting software or an advanced user. Furthermore, Office Accounting
Professional 2008 works smoothly with Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact
Manager to provide customer information in one place.
Save Time Managing Everyday Tasks
Time is money, and routine but necessary accounting tasks such as tracking
expenses and managing payroll can take up hours that could otherwise be spent
growing your business. Even simple tasks such as paying bills and invoicing
customers may require that information be written down or entered multiple
times, which not only is time-consuming but can lead to errors. Office
Accounting Professional 2008 streamlines those financial processes to help you
manage everyday accounting tasks more efficiently.
Enter Information Once
Office Accounting Professional 2008 simplifies everyday tasks because you can
share and re-use common data across different forms rather than re-typing the
information. To make entering recurring transactions easier and faster, Office
Accounting Professional 2008 tracks your transactions and stores the information
for future use. You can easily share accounting data across other Microsoft
Office programs you use. For example, within Office Accounting Professional 2008
you can easily export a quote to Office Word to create a professional-looking
proposal customized for your business.
Easily Create Quotes, Invoices, and More
With Office Accounting Professional 2008, you can easily create common documents
such as quotes, invoices, purchase orders, and more. For example, quickly
convert information such as a customer quote into an invoice without tedious
data reentry. You can also now convert sales orders into purchase orders
automatically. With Office Accounting 2008, you can also easily customize each
form to suit your business's specific needs. Office Accounting Professional 2008
works smoothly with Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager to put
customer information and financial data in one place. From within Office Outlook
2007 with Business Contact Manager, employees can view financial information
about customers and create quotes, orders, and invoices in Office Accounting
Professional 2008--without having to transfer data from one program to another.
Track Expenses and Transactions Automatically
The process of paying bills and recording expenses is often inefficient. Writing
down information to be entered later can be time-consuming and is prone to
errors. Office Accounting Professional 2008 automatically tracks all
transactions, including expenses, as you enter information. You can easily
categorize income and expenses for tracking and reporting.
You can see detailed views of each transaction and audit transactions to
understand changes made to records. To save time, advanced users can enter
multiple transactions by creating numerous journal entries posting on different
dates and relating to different accounts in one journal form.
Create, Modify, and Export Documents in Office Word
Because Office Accounting Professional 2008 works smoothly with Office Word, you
can easily export quotes, sales orders, packing slips, invoices, and other
information to Word with a click. If your business has already created
personalized Word documents, you can reuse existing templates and documents. You
can also customize templates that come with Office Accounting Professional 2008
to create professional-looking materials and documents. Choose from dozens of
industry templates and Office Accounting automatically configures itself to how
you run your business. The Write Letters Wizard is an easy way to create and
modify letters from Word templates for your customers, vendors, and employees.
Automate Bank Accounts
Businesses must track banking activities to keep tight control on the flow of
funds into and out of the company. If your business has an online banking
account, you can download your records from the bank or other financial
institution directly into Office Accounting Professional 2008. The Online
Banking Wizard helps you easily set up and use the online banking feature.
Office Accounting Professional 2008 helps you manage multiple company bank
accounts and maintain a consolidated view of the various accounts. The Banking
home page summarizes your company's banking activities. From the Banking home
page, you can easily write and print checks, make deposits, reconcile your bank
accounts, and perform other banking tasks.
Office Accounting Professional 2008 supports more financial institutions than
ever before and includes a streamlined online banking sign-up process. You can
now synchronize vendors in Office Accounting 2008 with online payees you have
set up with your bank.
Automate Customer Payments
You can customize and organize customer payments with Office Accounting
Professional 2008. With the credit card processing option, accept credit and
debit card payments to better serve your customers and reduce transaction costs.
For credit card purchases, you can print receipts and create customer credit
memo templates for future transactions.
Track Employee Time and Costs
Billable time is the livelihood of service businesses. You can track and manage
employees' billable time directly in Office Accounting Professional 2008 through
the Time Entry form. Office Accounting Professional 2008 can then use the
billable hours to create customer invoices.
Many companies, such as consulting firms and contractors, organize their
businesses around specific customer jobs. Office Accounting Professional 2008
helps you track revenues and expenses by job, and monitor and compare total job
profitability. You can also track estimated versus actual job costs and compare
invoices versus quotes. This data becomes useful for business planning such as
increasing the accuracy of future job estimates.
Working with Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager helps you
achieve more accurate and timely billing. Employees can mark appointments in
their Outlook calendars as billable time, and then transfer that information to
Office Accounting Professional 2008 with a single click.
Manage Payroll and Taxes
Managing payroll and calculating government taxes can be one of the most
difficult financial tasks for any business. With Office Accounting Professional
2008, you can subscribe to online-based payroll. Payroll for Office Accounting
provides a full-featured, easy-to-use payroll and tax processing program for
calculating federal, state, and local taxes. With the integration between Office
Accounting Professional 2008 and Payroll for Office Accounting, you can import
timesheet data directly into the payroll application, and export payroll and tax
information to the general ledger.
Track and Forecast Inventory
For small businesses that sell products, effective inventory management is key
to minimizing costs and maximizing profits. Office Accounting Professional 2008
provides an inventory system that automatically updates quantities when you
create invoices or take returns. You can track and adjust overall inventory
quantities in the system in real time, and you can use the physical inventory
worksheet to perform a physical count. Now, you can save time by using Office
Accounting Professional 2008 to automatically create purchase orders to
replenish inventory that has a fallen below a minimum level you set.
Sell and Buy in Multiple Currencies
For businesses that work with customers or vendors outside the United States,
Office Accounting Professional 2008 handles the complexity of currency
conversion and reconciliation, helping you do business with international
vendors and customers in their own currencies.
Manage your business in Multiple Languages
With Office Accounting 2008, you can manage your business in Spanish or English.
Switch between languages in just a few clicks, so you can manage your
accounting, create invoices, and print reports in the language of your choice.
Get a Complete View of Your Business
In many small businesses, customer and financial information resides in
different places--file folders, e-mail messages, spreadsheets, documents, and
even sticky notes. Many small business owners do not have adequate time to truly
understand and make use of their financial data, and often no easy way to share
or organize the information exists to enable faster decision-making and provide
better service to customers. Comprehensive business information is difficult to
compile and understand, so getting the big picture of the business's financial
health is challenging.
Office Accounting Professional 2008 gives you a single, always up-to-date
view of your business by helping you manage financial information in one place.
You can get organized and work the way you want by customizing the information
you would like to see at a glance. Furthermore, you can track customer and
financial information together by sharing customer account information using
Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager.
View Your Financial Information in One Place
Office Accounting Professional 2008 puts financial data and business information
in one place, giving you a comprehensive look at your business to enable
better-informed decisions. By sharing and synchronizing customer account
information using Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, you can
provide your employees with better financial information to serve customers,
improve productivity, and reduce errors.
Store and Organize Data Centrally
Office Accounting Professional 2008 gives businesses a central place to collect,
organize, and manage financial information so they don't have to use multiple
methods and tools. Easily work with information about your customers, employees,
and vendors in one place.
Because Office Accounting Professional 2008 and Office Outlook 2007 for
Business Contact Manager share a single database, information related to
customers, vendors, prospects, and employees can be easily shared in real time
between the two programs. The ability to bill, track transactions, and query
financial history can be used by salespeople as well as office managers and
business owners.
Work with Microsoft Point of Sale
If you are a single-store retailer, Microsoft Point of Sale provides an
easy-to-use program that helps track sales, inventory, and customer information.
Combining Microsoft Point of Sale with Office Accounting Professional 2008
creates an integrated retail solution that connects the point of sale to
accounting. You can send all the sales details of the day from Microsoft Point
of Sale to Office Accounting Professional 2008 without retyping data, thus
saving time and reducing errors. You can then use Office Accounting Professional
2008 to run financial reports that help you manage cash flow and improve
profitability.
Get a Snapshot of Important Information
When accounting data is available in one place, you can quickly get a look at
the fiscal health of the company. The company home page provides a snapshot of
important information, critical tasks, and reminders on one screen. By capturing
this information in one location, you can stay on top of your business and
quickly get an overall sense of its performance.
Share Account Information with Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact
Manager
When you combine Office Accounting Professional 2008 with Office Outlook 2007
with Business Contact Manager, you get a complete business and financial picture
of your customers in one place. From within Office Outlook 2007 with Business
Contact Manager, employees can turn opportunities into quotes, orders, and
invoices in Office Accounting Professional 2008--without having to reenter
information in another program. Employees can mark their Outlook calendar
appointments, projects, tasks, and phone logs as billable and automatically send
that information to Office Accounting Professional 2008 to create customer
invoices.
An integration wizard helps you link your Office Outlook 2007 with Business
Contact Manager accounts and contacts with your customers in Office Accounting
Professional 2008. Because the programs share a database, data entered in either
program automatically flows to the other so information is always synchronized.
This keeps you informed of account and customer changes and provides a central
location for critical information, which can also be shared with employees
selectively, based on their roles.
Work the Way You Want
Every business is different. That's why tailoring your accounting solution to
suit your business's needs and style is so important. Office Accounting
Professional 2008 makes it easy to customize and personalize the information you
need.
Create a Personalized Company Home Page
The company home page provides a snapshot of your business's overall financial
condition as well as your day-to-day accounts payable and accounts receivable
information. You can personalize this information by easily adding and removing
dashboard content such as reminders, recent cash flow forecasts, bank account
information, vendors, customers, and more.
Customize Forms
Using Office Accounting Professional 2008, you can easily customize quotes,
sales orders, invoices, purchase orders, reports, and more. You can fully
customize the data elements used in most forms by moving fields, creating custom
fields, renaming fields, and hiding unneeded fields. These customized forms and
letters can be exported to Word templates to sharpen the professional appearance
of marketing materials and financial documents.
Provide Employee Access and Customize Security Roles
Having better insight into financial and customer information can help employees
be more effective workers. Yet, because some employees may not need access to
all the company's accounting data, providing even basic information to the right
employees can be challenging.
With Office Accounting Professional 2008, owners and managers can control
access to sensitive information based on an employee's role. You can add and
remove permissions from different roles such as Owner, Office Manager,
Accountant, and Salesperson, as well as add new customized roles. That gives you
ultimate flexibility over who has access to your business's accounting data.
Multiple users can also work with Office Accounting Professional 2008 from
different computers at the same time.
Find and Organize Information Quickly
Even when a business is small, finding financial and customer information is
sometimes more work than it needs to be. It is essential to make financial and
customer data accessible and usable to everyone in the company who needs it.
Office Accounting Professional 2008 includes features to help you quickly find
mission-critical data, whether it is related to customers, vendors, jobs, or
other information.
To improve database performance, the Compress Data feature compresses
historical data in a separate company database, making the active database
faster than ever. Data for all years remains available if needed for
year-by-year comparisons.
Gain Insight into Your Business Finances
Business owners are often caught up in the day-to-day tasks of running the
business. It can be challenging to gather financial information to gain insights
for making short-term and long-term decisions about the direction of the
business. Office Accounting Professional 2008 provides the features and reports
to give you the information you need, at a glance, to make more informed
business decisions. You can further analyze the data by exporting accounting
data to other Microsoft Office system programs such as Office Excel or Office
Access.`
Understand Your Business with Comprehensive Reports
Office Accounting Professional 2008 offers more than 60 pre-defined reports that
help you get insights into all aspects of your business. Easy-to-use reporting
empowers you with many kinds of financial information across the company, such
as the sales pipeline, cash flow, item profitability, and customer transactions.
In addition, you can easily customize the reports by setting filters, changing
fonts and formatting, and more. With Office Accounting 2008, you can create your
own Office Excel or Office Access reports and add them to the list of standard
reports for easier access. Powerful analysis tools are now incorporated directly
into Office Accounting for easier access
Understand Your Customers
Using the customers home page in Office Accounting Professional 2008, you can
perform all the tasks related to customers and receivables and get a quick view
of the state of each account. You can stay up-to-date on the latest customer
needs through a financial summary that includes outstanding payments and balance
information.
If more information is required to manage sales and predict sales activity,
you can run detailed reports. For example, you can run reports that show sales
status, order information, and probability of closing. Salespeople can filter
data to view the status of accounts they are working on or to display customers
they have not contacted recently.
Create budgets and track progress toward your goals.
Easily create a budget in Office Accounting and track how your budget compares
with your actual results. Use new features in Accounting 2008 to create budgets
where you can make profitability projections for a fiscal period. You can also
run reports that compare your projections to actual results. You can adjust your
budget at any time to reflect actual results in a fiscal period; changing market
conditions; and new accounts or classes.
Monitor and Forecast Cash Flow
Analyzing cash flow--the difference between income and expenses--is an essential
task for business owners. Office Accounting Professional 2008 includes cash flow
tools that help you conduct a complete and accurate analysis of history and
trend data for cash coming in and going out of the business. The Cash Flow
Forecast tool keeps track of sales, purchases, and payments to help you manage
and predict cash flow easily. You can model different scenarios to help forecast
future cash flows and make decisions about which customers to contact or which
bills to pay. For further cash flow analysis, Office Accounting Professional
2008 reports such as the Cash Flow Statement can show cash inflows and outflows
of the business over a period of time.
Share Data with Your Accounting Professional
Many small businesses regularly work with an accountant or bookkeeper, whether
for payroll, tax preparation, or other tasks. Office Accounting Professional
2008 includes unique features to make it easier to share your business's
financial data with an accounting professional.
Using the Accountant Transfer Export Wizard, you can send your business's
accounting data to your accountant and continue using Office Accounting
Professional 2008. When the accountant is done updating the books, he or she can
send the data back to you to synchronize the changes. Alternatively, your
accountant can remotely connect to your copy of Office Accounting Professional
2008 and update it.
Manage and Grow Your Business More Effectively
In a competitive world, small business owners are looking for better ways to
manage and develop their businesses. More small businesses are selling online
because the Internet gives them the ability to reach millions of potential
customers. Office Accounting Professional 2008works smoothly with online
marketplaces to help you sell more effectively and receive customer orders and
payments with confidence.
Sell Online More Effectively
With the Microsoft Small Business Online Sales option, you can easily and
cost-effectively sell on Internet marketplaces such as eBay. Whether you're
selling online for the first time or already have an eBay business, working
through Office Accounting Professional 2008 can save you time and help you sell
more.
Sell on eBay
Office Small Business Accounting 2008 helps you reach out to millions of
potential customers with its full-featured eBay integration. From the online
sales home page, you can easily list inventory items, check the status of your
listing, download and process orders, and track activity in real time from
within Office Accounting Professional 2008. A single listing screen helps you
manage all inventory items in real time, including quantity, reserve prices, and
images. You can easily upload multiple listings simultaneously. After an item
sells, the order information including commissions and fees is downloaded
directly into Office Accounting Professional 2008. The online orders can be
processed in Office Accounting Professional 2008, and payments can be received
by using the integrated credit card services or PayPal.
Do Business with Confidence
Managing customer transactions can be a constant challenge for small businesses.
Office Accounting Professional 2008 provides integration with services to help
you check the financial health of your customers and provide them with more
payment options so that you can receive payment more quickly.
Get Paid Faster Through PayPal
Smart businesses offer customers a variety of payment methods. Office Accounting
Professional 2008 gives you the ability to offer customers a PayPal payment
option to help you get paid faster. Using Microsoft Office Outlook, you can
easily generate an e-mail message with an invoice that includes an integrated
PayPal option. Customers click an automatically generated link and use the
PayPal service to enter payment. All transactions are tracked in Office
Accounting Professional 2008, dramatically simplifying the payment process.
Credit Profile with Equifax
Office Accounting Professional 2008 provides easy access to Equifax credit
report services. Obtain one-time credit reports or ongoing credit monitoring of
customers and prospects to help you evaluate business risk and make decisions
about customer sales with more confidence. You can also order a credit report
for your business to keep track of your own credit history.
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