Microsoft Small Business Manager Overview

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Affordable, flexible, and easy to use, it adapts readily to meet changing needs and scales to grow with your business.</p> <h3>Integrate Across Your Business</h3> <p>Microsoft Small Business Manager offers fully integrated financial and business management capabilities to let you manage financials, including cross-company reporting, but also the complete customer, vendor, and product lifecycle within one application.</p> <h3>Ensure Maximum Productivity</h3> <p>Connect information and processes across your business, process transactions efficiently, and extend business capabilities through integration with Microsoft Office and industry-specific software.</p> <h3>Serve Customers More Effectively</h3> <p>Flexible, integrated functionality for sales, purchasing, and inventory enables employees to process orders smoothly and track inventory efficiently to meet customer demand.</p> <h3>Make Informed Business Decisions</h3> <p>With more than 148 reports, robust query tools, and two-way integration with Microsoft Excel, you can access and analyze the exact information you need.</p> <h3>Improve Business Performance</h3> <p>Create and manage budgets using Excel based budgeting tools, assess and forecast cash flow, and control costs by managing vendor relationships and inventory mix and levels.</p> <h3>Easily Adapt Your Business Software</h3> <p>Meet changing business needs and manage increasing volumes with multiple user access for all transactions types, increased financial controls, and unlimited storage for records and transactions.</p> <h3 style="margin-bottom: -40px">Modules Overview</h3> <p> </p> <ul> <li><b>Financials: </b>Maintain tight control of business finances with flexible account structures true double-entry accounting, period-end closing, and tools for monitoring financial goals and managing cash flow.</li> <li><b>Banking: </b>Seamlessly integrate all cash, check, and credit card transactions, trace bank account balances, and automate monthly reconciliation for all your business finances.</li> <li><b>Inventory: </b>Manage inventory levels and costs with flexible pricing and cost methods, multiple ways to track individual items, assemblies, kits, back-order management, and real-time inventory adjustments.</li> <li><b>Sales: </b>Ensure efficiency and customer satisfaction with integrated quotes, orders, invoices, fulfillments, and payments. </li> <li><b>Purchasing: </b>Manage vendor relationships and control costs with integrated purchase orders, item receipts, invoices, payments. </li> <li><b>U.S. Payroll: </b>Respond to employee needs, save money, and comply with government requirements using integrated payroll processes that include tax table updates, check printing, direct deposit, payroll reports, and government forms.</li> <li><b>Fixed Assets: </b>Manage your fixed assets with easy record setup, flexible depreciation methods and averaging conventions, and automatic updates to multiple account books. </li> <li><b>Microsoft Business Solutions for Analytics–FRx® Desktop: </b>Build custom reports with reusable design templates and consolidate cross-company financial statements for streamlined analysis and financial management.</li> <li><b>Crystal Reports 9.0 Standard: </b>Import data from multiple sources, then create presentation-quality reports with the help of templates, wizards, drag-and-drop operations, and stored objects.</li> <li><b>Reporting: </b>Locate, pinpoint, and analyze the exact information you need using SmartList query tools, drill-back capabilities, and more than 148 customizable reports. Easily export data to Excel for further analysis.</li> <li><b>Service and Support: </b>Work with a highly-trained local Microsoft Business Solutions partner and call on award-winning support and services, including telephone, online, and CD-based support and training.</li> </ul> <h3 style="margin-bottom: -40px">Working with Microsoft Small Business Manager</h3> <p> </p> <ul> <li><b>Setup wizards and checklists: </b>Install and set up quickly with wizards, checklists, and flexible default settings.</li> <li><b>Master record and transactions import: </b>Securely import customer, vendor, employee, and account records and transactions directly from other applications.</li> <li><b>Administrator-defined user access rights: </b> Specify access levels for each unique user based on roles. You can control access by module and specify whether an employee can enter transactions or simply view information.</li> <li><b>Unlimited users; multi-user access: </b>Set up access rights for an unlimited number of users, and provide multiple user access for up to 10 users for all transaction types.</li> <li><b>Unlimited companies: </b>Maintain an unlimited number of active companies.</li> <li><b>Flexible settings and interface: </b>Set up flexible account structures, customize reports and forms, and personalize desktops. Microsoft Business Solutions partners can help you further customize your solution.</li> <li><b>Automated processes and task management: </b>Record macros, set up recurring transactions, and use reminders, alerts, and checklists to process, schedule, and track routine, month-end, period-end, and year-end tasks.</li> <li><b>Increased financial controls: </b>Maintain tight fiscal control with flexible period-end closing by module and double entry-accounting that serves as a secure audit trial.</li> <li><b>Automated file backup and recovery: </b>Backup and recovery tools help you recover from damaged or destroyed data. Make multiple backups and restore them easily.</li> <li><b>Free updates: </b>Receive the latest version of your software to update at your convenience, for no additional charge, as part of your annual support plan.</li> <li><b>Award-winning support and training: </b>Choose between the Foundations Services&#8211Basic Program or the Foundation Services–Preferred Program for onsite, telephone, and online support and training resources.</li> <li><b>Easy upgrade path: </b>Follow a simple, seamless upgrade path without migrating data or retraining employees, and receive full reimbursement for moving to a higher-end Microsoft Business Solution application.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </form> </td> </tr> </table> <br clear="all" style="line-height: 1px; overflow: hidden"/><table id="msviFooter" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="bottom"><td id="msviFooter2" style="filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient(startColorStr='#FFFFFF', endColorStr='#4D8CCC', gradientType='1')"><div id="msviLocalFooter"><nobr><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040224172114/http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=317027">Manage Your Profile</a> |</nobr><wbr/><nobr><a href="/web/20040224172114/http://www.microsoft.com/BusinessSolutions/document.aspx?content=/businesssolutions/content/contact_us.xml" target="_parent">Contact Us</a> |</nobr><wbr/><nobr><a href="javascript:window.navigate('mailto:?subject=A link from Microsoft&body=This link is from the Microsoft Business Solutions Web site '+escape(this.window.location) );" target="_parent">E-mail This Page</a></nobr></div><div id="msviGlobalFooter"><span dir="ltr">©2004 Microsoft Corporation. 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