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5.0 out of 5 stars
The best accounting package available at the moment, 5 Aug 2008
This review is from: Office Accounting Professional Plus 2008 (PC) (CD-ROM)
I run a small business, designing and developing software and have tried many different accounting solutions including Sage; this package is so much simpler to use and does it without losing any functionality.
What you get is exactly what you would expect to see in an accounts package aimed at the U.K. market including VAT and corporation tax calculations, Stock control functions, Customer credit management and even payroll functions. If used in conjunction with Outlook Business Contact Manager the customer management feature is much closer to a full CRM package. This package also integrates with banking functions allowing you to pay invoices directly using BACs and to import electronic bank staements and reconcile your bank statements.
As this is part of the Office suite there is a great deal of integration between this package and the rest of the suite. Creating custom invoices, quotes and letters is so simple using word. any infomation can easily be exported to excell for manipulation. If the functionality is not available in the package the solution uses a SQL server backend so it is a simple task to export the exact infomation you need and to extend the solution where needed.
The use of a SQL server database means this is a fully scaleable solution that can be installed as a 2-tier solution with the database sat on a server and muliple clients all accessing the same database.
In conclusion I can highly recomend this accounting package to anyone who runs a small to medium sized business who want to keep upto date with their account without having to spend too much time managing there accounting software.
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Buyer Beware, 27 Jan 2010
This review is from: Office Accounting Professional Plus 2008 (PC) (CD-ROM)
Microsoft is discontinuing its Office Accounting software. I have just had my payroll cancelled as part of this move. I would not have bought the damn thing had I known!
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Office Accounting Pro Plus 2008, 10 Feb 2012
This review is from: Office Accounting Professional Plus 2008 (PC) (CD-ROM)
Although the wording on the back of the tin describes it making life easier.
This product requires someone to use it with in depth accounting knowledge and then read the manual for it.
The quick step guides are not great in fact they are terrible.
Would stay away from this unless you have read the course guide on how to use this which is also like doing an MCP.
Dont use it if you just require something to help you run a small business with 1 or more people. There are much better products out there that are far more less complicated, like SAGE.
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