Office Accounting and Your Business:
A Profitable Proposition for Partners

Microsoft Office Accounting Professional 2008 is an award-winning small business accounting product. But it can be much more to you.

Office Accounting can help you:
  • Bring on more new clients.
  • Increase average revenue per client.
  • Sell more managed services deals.
  • Develop more strategic relationships.
  • Broaden touch points with clients.
  • Network with local accounting professionals.

Become a hero to your clients by implementing solutions that save them money, increase sales and improve business processes. What could be better than that? And you don’t have to just take our word for it, read about the real world experiences of your peers.
New networking clients
Sell more Small Business Server: Office Accounting Professional’s multi-user capabilities are the perfect launch pad for a discussion on networking. Office Accounting and/or Outlook with Business Contact Manager can help pull through sales of Small Business Server.

This Microsoft technology can help your clients:
  • protect their businesses and prevent data loss
  • optimize their Windows investment
  • increase productivity with one central location for company data
  • access business information and resources from anywhere, anytime
  • reduce costs by sharing printers, Internet access, faxes, and more
  • stay connected to their customers and present a more professional image
Setup powerful, flexible customer data integration
Integration with Microsoft Outlook with Business Contact Manager: Microsoft Office Accounting Professional 2008 has a built-in link to Outlook with Business Contact Manager.

This streamlined integration:
  • gives your clients a unique combination of marketing, sales, customer and financial management
  • maintains one synchronized contact database between the two applications
  • lets users create financial forms like invoices from Outlook
  • helps users maintain a meticulous record of interaction with contacts
  • lets users track billable time in Outlook and pass that information to Office Accounting
  • provides access to accounts’ financial summary and history from Outlook
  • makes up-to-date inventory information available in Outlook
Setup, configure and create Office integration
Integration with Microsoft Office applications: Microsoft Office Accounting Professional 2008’s integration with other Office applications provides myriad opportunities for ongoing client engagements, including:
  • customizing Word templates
  • providing data mining through Access and SharePoint
  • creating specialized reports and Pivot Tables in Excel
  • training clients on Office Accounting and Outlook with Business Contact Manager
  • helping clients set up online sales through Office Accounting and eBay, or through Office Live
  • setting up integration for retail clients with Microsoft Point of Sale
Develop custom solutions and implement third-party add-ons
Software Developers Kit (SDK): Microsoft delivers a wide-ranging, potent arsenal of development tools and capabilities to partners, who can approach the vast small business market with targeted, compelling, and competitive solutions. Your third-party software integration—and your clients’ whole Office Accounting experience-- just got a whole lot easier and more customized.

The SDK’s advantages include:
  • dependable, modern Microsoft .NET architecture
  • language flexibility
  • high-performance relational database
  • multiple levels of customization
  • full functionality available to developers

To learn more about third-party add-ons, visit the Microsoft Office System Solutions Directory.
Networking with accounting professionals
Accountant involvement: Microsoft Office Accounting Professional 2008 presents numerous occasions where a relationship with an accounting professional would be beneficial to both of you, as Microsoft Office Accounting Professional 2008 builds in special tools for accounting professionals:
  • Accountant Navigator - manage multiple clients from a single dashboard
  • Accountant Transfer Wizard - edit and transmit client files for seamless transfers and updates
  • Payroll Center - run payroll for an unlimited number of clients from a single account
  • Journal Entry Worksheet - enter multiple accounts, customers, and vendors in one journal entry form
  • Online File Sharing - online sharing of books with your clients using Office Live

Whether your goal is revenue growth with existing clients or expanding your business with new clients, now you’ll have the tools and solutions to make it happen for your business and your 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