Microsoft® Business Solutions Small Business Financials North America Edition is an affordable, flexible solution that connects the people, information, and processes that help you manage your business more effectively. Easy to set up, customize, and use, it helps you increase productivity, make informed decisions, and improve business performance.
Ideal for companies that need more than basic accounting software, Microsoft® Business Solutions Small Business Financials North America Edition offers fully integrated financial management, sales, purchasing, inventory, payroll, and reporting capabilities. It adapts easily to changing needs with increased financial controls, reliable multi-user access, unlimited storage capacity for transactions and records, and the ability to scale as your business grows.
Business Benefits of Small Business Financials: Flexible, Reliable, and Affordable Investment
Microsoft Business Solutions Small Business Financials North America Edition provides small business financial flexibility that helps you connect people and information, process transactions efficiently, and extend business capabilities through its tight integration with Microsoft Office and other industry-specific software. Microsoft Small Business Financials provides you with an affordable, long-term investment in small business financial flexibility that doesn't require you to retrain your employees.
Built on stable, reliable technologies, here's how Microsoft Small Business Financials gives you small business financial flexibility:
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With flexible account structures, intelligent transaction processing, familiar Microsoft Excel-based budgeting, and sophisticated financial reporting capabilities, Microsoft Small Business Financials brings affordable, dependable software to your business.
Meet changing business needs and manage growth by easily adapting Microsoft Small Business Financials. Grant access to multiple employees for all transactions types. Benefit from increased financial controls and unlimited storage for records and transactions.
Get Up and Running Quickly
Designed specifically for small, growing businesses, Microsoft Business Solutions Small Business Financials North America Edition is an affordable, easy-to-use solution designed to help improve business financials. It's easy to install and set up, with flexible default settings that help you customize your solution.
Here's how Microsoft Small Business Financials can help you improve your business:
With Setup wizards and checklists, you'll find that installation is quick and flexible. You can set up flexible account structures, customize reports and forms, and personalize desktops.
The automated processes and task management solutions let you record macros and quickly set up recurring transactions. Reminders, alerts, and checklists help you schedule, track and process routine, month-end, period-end, and year-end tasks.
You can define access rights for your employees based on role. You can also specify whether an employee can enter transactions or simply view information.
Improve Productivity and Customer Service
Microsoft Business Solutions Small Business Financials North America Edition helps you connect information and processes across your business, leading to improved small business financial productivity. Ideal for companies that need more than basic accounting software, it offers you affordable, flexible, and fully integrated financial management capabilities. This means that you can quickly and conveniently process your payroll and meet government requirements. Or you can access and customize various reports to monitor key business activities.
Here's how Small Business Financials can help you improve small business financial productivity and serve your customers more effectively:
Flexible, integrated functionality for sales, purchasing, and inventory enables your employees to process orders smoothly and track inventory
With more than 148 reports, robust query tools, and two-way integration with Microsoft Excel, you can access and analyze the information you need to make informed business decisions
You can monitor and predict cash flow using an automated cash-flow calendar and detailed payment information from customers and vendors.
Create and manage budgets using Excel-based budgeting tools, assess and forecast cash flow, and control costs by managing vendor relationships and inventory.
Improve productivity by integrating with other software applications, including complementary Microsoft solutions. Also helps you integrate with Internet-based services to sell your products on the Web, manage e-mail marketing campaigns, and schedule appointments online.
The following table summarizes some of the key differences between QuickBooks Premier and Microsoft Small Business Financials.
| Product Feature | Microsoft Small Business Financials | QuickBooks Premier |
Pricing for five users | $2,600 | $2,500 |
Maximum number of users | 10 | 5 |
Supports true networking with record locking | Yes | No |
Supports allocations | Yes | No |
Supports statistical accounts | Yes | No |
Supports multiple segments in account number for departments, divisions, profit centers, and cost centers | Yes; supports up to six segments | Supports only one segment |
Allows you to attach supporting documents to transactions | Yes | No |
Supports multiple ship-to addresses | Yes | No |
Supports multilevel bills of materials (BOMs) | Yes | No |
Supports item pictures | Yes | No |
Tracks serial numbers | Yes | No |
Supports commissions calculated based on payments received | Yes | No |
Has an ODBC-compliant database | Yes | No |
As you can see, Microsoft Small Business Financials offers a stronger solution than QuickBooks Premier and makes an excellent migration path for users who have outgrown QuickBooks. In addition, Microsoft Small Business Financials offers a very affordable migration path to Microsoft Dynamics GP, should your company continue to grow. With more than 50,000 customers worldwide, Microsoft Great Plains and Microsoft Small Business Financials share a secure future.
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