Office Accounting Professional 2008 is easy to set up and use, just like other Microsoft Office programs. The Startup Wizard helps you get started quickly so that you can create your first invoice and are able to receive payments. The wizard imports your existing data from other programs such as Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Money, and Intuit QuickBooks so that you don’t have to start from scratch. The Resource Center offers a single location to access helpful information such as an accountant finder, product demonstrations, community tools, and other product resources

Office Accounting Professional 2008 simplifies everyday tasks: you enter data once and then reuse it across commonly used Microsoft Office programs, avoiding tedious reentry and errors. You can create quotes and later convert them into invoices with just one click. Now you can convert sales orders to purchase orders and automatically generate purchase orders based on inventory levels. Office Accounting Professional 2008 helps you conveniently manage payroll and track transactions as you enter information, significantly reducing the time spent on these tasks. You can also use online banking to receive payments, pay bills, and automatically reconcile bank accounts.

Because Office Accounting Professional 2008 works smoothly with Office Word, you can easily export quotes, sales orders, packing slips, invoices, and other information to Word with a click. You can also customize templates that come with Office Accounting Professional 2008 to create professional-looking materials and documents. Choose from dozens of industry templates and Office Accounting automatically configures itself to how you run your business.

Personalize your company home page to get a snapshot of information such as bank account balances, important reminders, and accounts receivable and payable on one screen. Use the Cash Flow Analyzer to track and forecast future cash flows to make better-informed business decisions. Create budgets and then run reports to compare forecasts to actuals. More than 70 predefined reports help you get critical financial information on aspects of your business such as sales, profit and loss, cash flow, item profitability, customer transactions, and much more. You can even customize these reports by setting filters, and get deeper insights into your business by using PivotTable dynamic views in Office Excel.

Using Office Accounting Professional 2008, you can easily create quotes, sales orders, invoices, purchase orders, reports, and more. You can customize forms to include relevant information fields and export these forms to Microsoft Office Word templates to sharpen the professional appearance of marketing materials and financial documents. You have the flexibility to create custom security roles and add or remove permissions to control employee access to sensitive information.

Payroll services for Office Accounting Professional 2008 enable you to process payroll and to calculate and file local, federal, and state taxes.¹ Payroll for Office Accounting offers multiple payroll options to meet your specific needs, and you can even print your paychecks through Office Accounting Professional 2008. You can also import employee timesheets and post the payroll and tax information to your books. Get more information on the attractively priced Payroll services.

Office Accounting Professional 2008 helps you achieve more accurate and timely employee billing. Working with Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, employees can mark appointments in their Outlook calendars as billable time and, with a single click, transfer that information to Office Accounting Professional 2008 to create invoices. Office Accounting Professional 2008 also enables you track revenues and expenses to monitor total job profitability, create multiple budgets, compare actual revenue to projected revenue, and compare invoices versus quotes for better business planning.

Using the Accountant Transfer Export Wizard, you can send your financial information to your accountant while you continue using Office Accounting Professional 2008 to run your day-to-day business. When your accountant is done updating the books, the changes get synchronized automatically. Microsoft Office Live can help you share information with security features with your accountant and others. The accountant also has the option of remotely accessing your financial information.

With Office Accounting Professional 2008, you can reach out to millions of potential customers on eBay. You can conveniently list items, check listing status, download orders, and receive payments in real time. After an item sells, all transaction records, including commissions and fees, are downloaded directly into Office Accounting Professional 2008, making both accounting and order processing more efficient. Support for multiple currencies enables you to buy or sell items from other countries.

Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, you can generate an invoice that includes an integrated PayPal option to help you get paid faster. Customers simply click the PayPal link in the invoice to pay. Office Accounting Professional 2008 also provides a credit card processing option that does not require expensive terminals or a dedicated phone line. And Office Accounting Professional 2008 provides easy access to Equifax credit report services to obtain a one-time credit report or ongoing credit monitoring to help you evaluate business risks and make better decisions. Learn more about Equifax services for Office Accounting Professional 2008.