Fast Facts about Office Accounting

More than half of U.S. small businesses are not yet using accounting software. Microsoft Office Accounting is a natural for companies just beginning to computerize their financial management procedures because of its familiar Office-like interface, it’s easy startup, its support resources, and its award-winning combination of software and services. Its design and extensibility make it a natural for Partner involvement, sometimes in tandem with an accounting professional.

Great Business Features
  • Office Accounting has a unique combination of software and services. It’s a complete double-entry accounting system integrated with payroll, Equifax, eBay, PayPal, and Office Live Website development and management. eBay’s burgeoning community of small business sellers is a growing market for Partners. These entrepreneurs can’t afford a hardware/software meltdown.
  • Office Accounting Professional is multi-user ready, and compatible with Microsoft Small Business Server. Partners can step in when it’s time for networking.
  • Office Accounting comes in two versions. Office Accounting Express is free and downloadable, but is still quite a capable financial management system. Office Accounting Professional ($199.95) adds tools like multi-user functionality, inventory, sales/purchase orders, and more reports. Partners can offer clients an easy, free way into the door, and provide an easy upgrade path when they’re ready. More opportunities for them and their accounting professional partners.
Accounting Professional Features

  • Office Accounting’s interface includes a multi-client dashboard for accounting professionals working with several clients. Accounting professionals can build relationships with partners to support Office Accounting customers.

  • An Accountant Transfer Wizard and Office Live integration help clients exchange data with accounting professionals easily. Accounting professionals + Partners = Full-featured support for clients.

  • A Journal Entry Worksheet simplifies the accounting professional’s correction duties. Office Accounting simplifies the accounting professional’s work, leaving time for other collaborative work with the partner.
Integration/Customization

  • Office Accounting can be integrated with Microsoft Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, allowing for a shared database. Business forms like invoices can be created from either program, and the integration offers tools like e-mail marketing campaigns, opportunity tracking, and business project/task management. Clients needing these capabilities will also need other support services.

  • Office Accounting invoices, purchase orders, and other forms are highly customizable, both within the product and in Word templates. Partners can help with customization needs.
Easy to Use

  • Office Accounting is housed in an interface that couldn’t be more familiar to many computer users. It looks and works much like other Microsoft office applications. Partners can draw on their family of Microsoft Office users and sell them matching financial management.

  • Office Accounting is friendly enough—and offers enough support resources—that users without accounting knowledge can get started quickly and maintain daily operations easily. Office Accounting can be an appealing way in the door, or a worthy add-on service for existing clients.
Related Links
  • To learn more about or join the Small Business Specialist Community, click here
  • To learn more about or join the Microsoft Professional Accountants’ Network, click here
  • Add-on Solutions Directory
  • To sign up for the Accounting Network News, a monthly Office Accounting Newsletter for Accounting Professionals and Partners, click here