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April 28, 2005
In Master Builder, Intuit combines an excellent financial system with trade-specific construction functions to create a program designed to fit your company’s needs now and in the future. Master Builder offers specialized solutions for a variety of construction industries, including Home Building, Plumbing/ HVAC, Commercial and Heavy Construction, Electrical and Specialty Subcontractors. The cost of...…
April 28, 2005
Atlas Business Solutions (www.abs-usa.com), which produces the business planning technology in QuickBooks Premier 2003, also has a stand-alone product called Ultimate Business Planner 2.0. Ultimate Business Planner offers more than a thousand business plan samples, startup resources, Small Business Administration loan information and links, and the ability to import QuickBooks financial and company information, which...…
April 28, 2005
ProfitCents from SageWorks, Inc. (www.profitcents.com) is a web-based financial statement analysis program for financial professionals that provides comprehensive, client-ready reports that help explain a company’s financial condition. ProfitCents uses industry comparisons, ratio analyses and trend analyses to develop the report after the professional inputs client industry and key income statement and balance sheet data. SageWorks...…
April 28, 2005
FRx Software Corp. (www.frxsoftware.com), a Microsoft subsidiary, produces Microsoft Business Solutions for Analytics ‘ FRx 6.7, a financial reporting program geared toward mid-sized corporate businesses and organizations with complex accounting systems that pull data from multiple sources. The latest version of the program includes a new add-on module, Report Manager, which allows users to pull...…
April 28, 2005
Net Worth Express (www.networthexpress.com) helps develop personal financial statements for use in applying for and maintaining credit with financial institutions, according to Bay Gruber, president of the company. ‘A CPA is often the first resource a person turns to when needing to create a personal financial statement. Net Worth Express gives CPAs an easy way...…
April 28, 2005
QuickBooks Premier is a financial management solution suitable for businesses with up to 20 employees. For a single-user system, you’ll pay $499.95; a five-user systems run $1,499.95. Expandability, Modules & Scalability – 4.5 Stars All QuickBooks products use a series of Navigators instead of modules. Navigators included with QuickBooks Premier include Company, Customers, Vendors, Employees,...…
April 28, 2005
ProBATE Software provides compliance for forms 1041, 706 and 709, as well as a fiduciary accounting program and estate planning, with modules available individually or in bundles. The ProBATE Professional package, which includes all of the above modules, is priced at $1,995 (with $995 renewals) for a license that includes networking rights within a single...…
April 28, 2005
A-Systems JobView is an easily navigated accounting and job costing software. The company has been providing contractor and construction software to companies large and small for over 25 years. Pricing for our prototype company is as follows: for the Preferred Edition, the cost is $11,545 with support running $1,800. For the Standard Edition, the cost...…
April 28, 2005
AMMBIT, from PricewaterhouseCoopers (www.ammbit.com), is geared toward mid-sized private businesses and is available in versions for corporate professionals and professional public accountants. The software, whose name is an acronym for Advanced Middle Market Business Intelligence Tool, provides benchmarking of client performance to peers and competitors within their industry, providing valuable insight into how the business...…
April 28, 2005
Michael Hoffmann, president and CEO of Whitebirch Software (www.projectedfinancials.com), which produces scenario-based financial modeling software Projected Financials, said this genre of software ‘simplifies creating, comparing and documenting what-if scenarios’ in a fraction of the time of using traditional spreadsheet modeling. Mr. Hoffmann said Projected Financials’ structured modeling environment guarantees the integrity of the financial model,...…
April 28, 2005
ACUMEN Financial Solutions, a division of Three D Graphics Inc., also offers executive-level business financial planning through its corporation-focused ACUMEN software (www.acumenfs.com), allowing users to ‘quickly see the effects over time of changing variables, such as a product price or added sales expenses,’ said Elmer Easton, CEO of ACUMEN Financial Solutions. The program offers an...…
April 28, 2005
CPAnalyst from Tomorrow’s Software, LLC (www.tomorrowssoftware.com), is a model-building system that enables businesses to easily capture and integrate its data with industry-specific performance measures and the company’s financial and operations data to provide decision-making company executives with actionable information. In other words, ‘to simplify the complex,’ according to founder and chairman Irwin Jarett, PhD, CPA....…