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Competitive Advantage
Top 10
Benefits of Small Business Manager: Giving you a competitive advantage
If you're
contemplating new software to manage your business, take these ten
benefits into consideration. You’ll see why Small Business Manager is
the best solution to help you work more productively, integrate your
business, and access information to make more informed decisions.
1.
Enter information once and share it with all of your applications.
Do you use Microsoft® Excel to manage your budgets and financial
statements, Word to send personalized letters to customers, Outlook® to
e-mail pertinent reports to colleagues, MapPoint® for obtaining driving
directions and other internal or industry-specific applications to
manage other key day-to-day tasks? Small Business Manager allows you to
keep using those familiar packages, but uniquely integrates all of these
applications and data together so you don’t have to re-key data.
2.
Flexible and unique reporting tools help you easily find answers to any
of your day-to-day questions and analyze your business performance.
Do you want instant, on-screen access to a list of overdue customers,
daily sales activities or year to date vendor purchases? The SmartList
real-time query tool allows you to slice and dice information, so
business data that’s important to you is only a click away. As well,
over 80 customizable standard reports enable you to easily analyze
business metrics. And because Small Business Manager’s flexible account
structure allows up to 25 characters and five segments, you can leverage
your accounts to manage multiple departments and produce departmental
reports for even greater reporting insights.
3.
Don’t worry about audits—Small Business Manager provides full audit
trails and double-entry accounting to help you follow accounting rules.
Small Business Manager helps you to follow accounting rules so that if
you are ever audited, you have a complete audit trail code and balanced
records which can be easily analyzed. To begin with, double-entry
accounting is enforced, so that debits must equal credits when posting
journals. Secondly, all transactions are assigned an incremental audit
trail code number, so you can easily track information within the
system. Finally, posted transactions cannot be randomly deleted;
instead, to protect the audit trail code of your system, void procedures
are in place or correcting transactions can be posted to make needed
changes. This gives you full, accurate visibility of all activity in
your system so there will be no questions about your books.
4.
Keep your data secure by defining what parts of the software each
employee can access and use.
Your company ‘administrator’ can specify which parts of Small Business
Manager each employee can use. For example, perhaps some users should be
able to view information through inquiry windows and reports, but should
not be allowed to actually enter new transactions or change setup
information. This flexibility to set up security parameters by user will
help you keep data secure and safe in an environment where multiple
employees have access to the accounting database.
5.
Giving you a competitive advantage.
Multiple users can access the data at the same time without performance
problems. With Small Business Manager, you can set up an unlimited
number of users, with a maximum of five concurrent users accessing the
data at the same time. Because it uses industry-standard technologies
like Microsoft SQL 2000 Desktop Engine or Microsoft SQL Server™ 2000,
the stability of performance and reliability of data is much higher than
competitive solutions on the market.
6.
Processing vendor checks, customer statements and employee checks
couldn’t be easier.
Wizards throughout Small Business Manager assist you in completing what
can otherwise be complex tasks. Step-by-step questions guide you through
the processes, giving you ultimate flexibility when choosing which
vendor bills to pay, sending out customer statements, and processing
employee checks.
7.
Take control of your sensitive payroll processes with an on-site
solution integrated with the rest of your accounting software.
Small Business Manager’s U.S. Payroll Suite allows you to easily
integrate payroll processing into the rest of your on-site business
management. You’ll always have updated tax tables as part of your
service plan, to ensure that taxes are tracked and reported correctly.
In addition to its many features and benefits, another highlight of the
Payroll Suite is the ability for each employee to choose to have funds
electronically deposited to their bank or receive a check.
8.
Use reminder and alert tools to schedule and remind users of routines
that need to be performed at a specific time.
Within Small Business Manager, the Reminders window immediately launches
to provide users the ability to be reminded of timely tasks to be
addressed, such as customer invoices to be collected on or checks you
owe your vendor. You have ultimate flexibility to mark tasks as
recurring, as well as the ability to assign them to individual users or
everyone in the system.
9.
Custom business letter templates help you quickly create personalized
communications.
Imagine looking up a customer’s information and seeing that they have a
past due balance; now take that information to instantly generate
collection letters. Designed to be quick and easy, these letter-writing
capabilities can originate from customer windows, vendor windows, and
employee windows as well so you can keep in touch with all of your
constituents.
10.
Keep
your sensitive accounting software on-site while extending some of your
sales and marketing services to the Internet.
Whether you want to build an online business presence, deliver stronger
sales and service, or manage business operations, Microsoft bCentral™
offers the solutions and valuable information you need. bCentral has
solutions that are perfect for new businesses just starting out or
established companies ready to grow their business online. Microsoft
bCentral Commerce Manager, List Builder, and Appointment Manager work
with Small Business Manager to increase and retain your customer base |
