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 (Quickbooks 2006 or earlier only). The Resource Center offers a single location to access helpful information such as an accountant finder, product demonstrations, community tools, and other product resources
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.
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 customise 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.
Get real-time insight into your business.
Personalise 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 customise 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 customise 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.
Simplify payroll and tax processes.
Payroll services for Office Accounting Professional 2008 enable you to process payroll. Payroll for Office Accounting offers multiple payroll options to meet your specific needs, and you can even print your paycheques through Office Accounting Professional 2008. You can also import employee timesheets and post the payroll and tax information to your books.
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.
Share information with your accountant.
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 synchronised 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.
Use PayPal.
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.
Computer and processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) processor or higher
Memory: 512 MB RAM or higher
Hard disk: 2 gigabyte (GB); a portion of this disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard drive.
Drive: CD-ROM or DVD drive
Display: 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor
Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 2 or Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or later operating system
Other: Microsoft Office Word 2002 or later is required to create customized invoices, sales orders, quotes, customer credit memos, customer statements, and purchase orders. Microsoft Office XP (any edition) or later is required to export data to Microsoft Office Word or Excel. To share data among multiple computers, the host computer must be running Windows Server 2003 SP1 or later, or Windows XP Professional SP2 or later (Connecting more than one user at the same time requires multiple licenses). Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager SP4 or later is required to share financial data. Excel 2003 or later required to use Excel reports in Analysis Tools.