Office Accounting Professional 2009 is an easy-to-use, complete accounting solution. It has a comprehensive set of accounting tools that help small businesses save time by making them more efficient and effective at managing everyday financial tasks. Deep integration of Office Accounting Professional 2009 with Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager enables you to get a complete view of your business by having all your customer and financial information in one place. New features such as the tax preparation report and Amounts to Pay gadget1 that allows you to see upcoming bills from your desktop, plus an enhanced set of 90 business reports make it even easier to grow and manage your business.

Office Accounting Professional 2009 is specifically for small businesses and the accounting professionals serving them. It provides a single place to manage the company’s business finances with the look and feel of familiar Microsoft Office system programs.

Office Accounting Professional 2009 offers the following benefits:

Easy to learn and use

• The Startup Wizard gets your company set up right away. You can easily import data from other programs such as Intuit QuickBooks, Microsoft Money, and Microsoft Office Excel. Office Accounting Professional 2009 shares the same look and feel of familiar Microsoft Office programs so you are productive right away.
• The Resource Center is a single location where you can find how-to articles, helpful tips, tricks, and demos that help you get the most out of Office Accounting Professional 2009.

Save time managing everyday tasks

• Enter information only once to save time and reduce errors.
• Get key financial info at a glance with the Amounts to Pay Today¹ gadget.
• Create customized estimates, invoices, and purchase orders. Save time and eliminate additional data entry by automatically generating a purchase order from a sales order.
• Save time with online banking. Download bank transactions and import them into your general ledger².
• Track employee time and job costs.
• Manage payroll and taxes with the integrated payroll service³.
• Automatically create purchase orders to replenish inventory that has fallen below a minimum level you set.

Store and organize all your information in one place

• Use Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager (sold separately) to share and synchronize account information. Give your employees complete customer information to help them improve productivity, reduce errors, and better serve customers.
• Create templates for documents and customize any form to suit your needs.

See how your business is doing at a glance

• Easily create a budget in Office Accounting and track how your budget compares with your actual results.
• Monitor and forecast cash flow with the Cash Flow Analyzer.
• Use the company home page for important business information such as daily reminders, account balances, overdue invoices, profitability, and more — all on one screen.
• Get real-time insights into your business by using an expanded set of more than 90 pre-defined reports. New reports for 2009 include:
• Today's Sales by Customer
• Year-to-Date Sales Compared to last year
• Year-to-Date Profit Compared to last year
• Open Invoices by Due Date
• Today's Vendor Payments
• Amounts Due to Vendors
• Un-deposited Funds Collected Today
• Inventory Items with Negative Balances
• Most Profitable Items
• Sales Tax Collected This Quarter
• Balance Sheet - Cash Basis
• Profit and Loss - Cash Basis
• Transaction Detail by Account - Cash Basis
• GL Report - Cash Basis
• Sales Tax Liability - Cash Basis
• Transaction Detail by Tax Code - Cash Basis
• Sales by Customer Summary - Cash Basis
• Sales by Customer Details - Cash Basis
• Sales by Item Summary - Cash Basis
• Sales by Item Detail - Cash Basis
• Budget for Profit and Loss - Cash Basis
• Online Sales by Customer Summary - Cash Basis
• Online Sales by Item Summary - Cash Basis

Sell on eBay®

• List and sell items from your inventory in Office Accounting on eBay.
• Track activity in real time and download and process orders.
• Process credit card payments in Office Accounting without expensive terminals or dedicated phone lines.

Do business with confidence

• Monitor customer and even your own credit by using integrated Equifax services.
• Add a PayPal button to invoices so customers can pay you with just a few clicks.

Save time managing everyday financial tasks such as banking, generating invoices, tracking job costs, and payroll services.

Smooth integration with Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager (sold separately) makes both financial and marketing customer information available to employees to help them make well-informed decisions.

The Cash Flow Analyzer and customizable reports help owners get a complete view of their business. Using the Office Live services, businesses can smoothly share information with their accounting professional.

Office Accounting Professional 2009 provides tools that help small businesses to expand by selling their inventory and services on marketplaces such as eBay, getting paid faster through PayPal, and monitoring customer credit using Equifax.

Office Accounting Professional 2009 has features that help small businesses be even more efficient and effective, and grow their business. Features include:

• Resource Center with an accountant finder, demos, community tools, and product resources provides a single place to go to get great help and how-to information.
• Automatically convert sales orders to purchase orders.
• Automatically generate purchase orders based on inventory levels.
• View bills at a glance from your desktop with the Amounts to Pay Today gadget¹.
• Create multiple budgets and compare projected revenue to actual revenue.
• Batch-process memorized transactions.
• Bulk e-mail documents such as Microsoft Office Word, XPS, PDF attachments, or HTML.
• Additional business reports make it easier to get business insights.
• Streamlined company setup makes it easier to get started.
• Competing Accounting Software Import Tool makes it even easier to import your books from other applications such as Intuit QuickBooks into Microsoft Office Accounting.
• Save time with online banking
• Integration with the 2007 Microsoft Office system provides access to Excel and Access reports from within Office Accounting.
• The ordering workflow helps make ordering efficient.
• The Spanish language download pack allows you to view your Office Accounting 2009 user interface and product documentation in Spanish simply by downloading and installing. The Microsoft Office Accounting Spanish Language Pack 2009 is available at no charge at www.microsoft.com/download.

Office Accounting Professional 2009 is a software program specifically designed to meet the needs of small businesses with fewer than 25 employees. It provides scalability as the company grows from basic accounting tasks to comprehensive business management, and integrates smoothly with familiar Microsoft Office system programs. It can be deployed as a single user desktop system and can scale to support multiple users.

Office Accounting Professional 2009 is a complete accounting solution designed specifically to address the needs of small businesses and accounting professionals. Office managers, small business owners, and sales and marketing employees can use this program to increase their productivity.

Because of its integration with 2007 Microsoft Office system programs such as Microsoft Office Word and Excel, employees reduce errors and save time by entering data only once. Keeping track of expenses, job costs, and billable time becomes much simpler.

Integration with Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager (sold separately) provides sales and marketing employees with access to complete financial and marketing information, making them more effective in building stronger customer connections.

Small business owners can get a bird’s-eye view of their business by using the various reports and the Cash Flow Analyzer. This enables them to reach out to millions of customers by selling their products and services at online marketplaces such as eBay and get paid faster by using PayPal. Business owners and managers can assess risks by obtaining Equifax credit reports on customers, and even keep track of their own credit history.

Office Accounting Professional 2009 has special features to enable accounting professionals to be more productive.

• Accountant Transfer Wizard. Clients can send their books to their accountants and still continue to use Office Accounting Professional 2009 for their daily business. Accounting professionals can work on the books and send them back, and the changes get synchronized easily. Alternatively, accounting professionals can also remotely connect to their client’s copy of Office Accounting Professional 2009 and update their books.
• Accountant Business Template Export. CPAs can set up clients with a custom chart of accounts based on a template they create.
• Show/Hide voided documents. Instantly see voided transactions so you can more easily spot mistakes or unusual transactions.
• Accountant Navigator. From this central location, accountants can independently manage client accounts and payroll, import and export client data, and create journal entries for each client.
• Enhanced Cash Basis Accounting. CPAs have the flexibility to customize Cash Based Reporting settings for each client’s accounts based on the nature of their business. This helps ensure more accuracy as the transactions are captured on the basis of these settings.
• Payroll Center for accountants. Accountants can run and manage payroll processing for multiple clients from a single dashboard.
• New marketing tools for accounting professionals. Now you can create a co-branded version of the software with your company name for your clients.

Office Accounting Professional 2009 is built to support small businesses that have 25 or fewer PCs and less than 50 employees. It can be configured as a single user desktop installation by using Microsoft SQL Server® Express 2005. It can also be configured for multiple users in a peer-to-peer environment or deployed on a Windows® Small Business Server computer with SQL Server. Businesses that outgrow Office Accounting Professional 2009 can migrate to Microsoft Dynamics®.

• Online sales integration gives you the ability to sell inventory, track activity, and download orders in online marketplaces such as eBay directly from Office Accounting Professional 2009³.
• Equifax credit service enables you to monitor credit for your business, customers, or prospects.
• PayPal integration enables you to get paid faster by offering the PayPal payment option to customers.
• Accountant Business Template Export enables accountants to set up clients with a custom chart of accounts based on a template they create.
• Show/Hide voided documents allows you to instantly see voided transactions so you can more easily spot mistakes or unusual transactions.
• Microsoft Office Live integration enables businesses to exchange financial information with accounting professionals and other contacts using security features⁴.
• Accountant Transfer Wizard helps you share data with an accounting professional and synchronizes data easily after the accountant is done updating the books.
• Accountant View page provides a central location from which accountants can manage Office Accounting Professional 2009 data for multiple clients independently.
• Data import enables users to import accounting and financial data from additional programs and versions, including Microsoft Money, Office Excel, and Intuit QuickBooks.
• Account and Customer Integration Wizard enables synchronized data sharing so that you can make updates to a customer’s record in one program and quickly see the results in the other program.
• Journal entry allows you to create numerous journal entries posting on different dates and with different accounts.
• Forms customization allows you to tailor any form by adding, moving, creating, or renaming fields, and hiding unnecessary data element fields.
• Customizable security roles means you can add and remove employee permissions to help control access to sensitive financial information.
• Multi-currency support facilitates transactions in foreign currencies with customers and vendors as Office Accounting Professional 2009 handles the complexity of currency conversion and reconciliation easily.

You can easily use existing financial information and not be concerned about starting from scratch or losing valuable data. Office Accounting Professional 2009 is designed to import data from other software including Intuit QuickBooks, Office Excel, and Microsoft® Money.

Using the Convert from QuickBooks Wizard, Intuit QuickBooks users can easily import their data including master records such as charts of accounts, customers, vendors, items, employees, and supporting tables, as well as beginning balances and transactions. In addition, if you use previous versions of Microsoft Office Accounting, it is very easy to upgrade to Office Accounting Professional 2009. Upgraders can take advantage of special upgrade pricing. For more information, visit the pricing page.

Using the Office Accounting Professional 2009 credit card processing option, you can accept major credit and debit card payments to better serve your customers and reduce transaction costs. For credit card purchases, you can even print receipts and create customer credit memo templates for future transactions.

Yes. Office Accounting Professional 2009 is designed to work with an integrated payroll services program to help you manage your payroll process more efficiently. Based on your business needs, you can choose among the various payroll services options and begin subscribing at one of the most competitive prices in the industry³.

The following add-on services can be used within Office Accounting Professional 2009 to help small businesses be more productive and efficient.

• Payroll services to help streamline the payroll process.
• Equifax credit reporting services to monitor customer and business credit.⁵
• Office Live services to help you share financial data with others and to sell online from your Web site.⁴³
• eBay® integration to help you grow your business online.²⁴
• PayPal integration to help you get paid faster.^{4 2}
• Buy checks and forms option to easily order custom business forms.
• Online banking to help you save time.
• Credit card processing to better serve your customers.

For businesses that have very simple payroll needs, Office Accounting Professional 2009 comes with a simple, integrated Excel-based payroll system. Businesses using other payroll systems will have to enter the journal entries after the payroll run to update accounts in Office Accounting Professional 2009.

US$199.95 for new users. If you are using a previous version of Office Accounting, please visit http://www.ideawins.com/upgrade.aspx to see if you qualify for a free upgrade to Office Accounting 2009.

No. Office Accounting Professional 2009 will be available as a stand-alone program and will not be a part of the Microsoft Office system.

Visit the Office Accounting Professional 2009 home page for detailed product information.

Office Accounting Professional 2009 can support approximately 10 users. The actual number is dependent on the hardware capacity of the server running the system.

Yes. Accounting professionals can join our Microsoft Professional Accountants’ Network (MPAN) and get a free copy of Office Accounting Professional 2009.

Office Accounting Professional 2009 is so easy to install, you don’t need any IT staff. The startup wizard gets your company set up, connected, and working right away so you can be writing your first invoice within minutes. The familiar and intuitive interface makes Office Accounting Professional 2009 easy to learn.

Yes. You can set up and run multiple companies from the same copy but all users need to have separate licenses. There is no limit on the number of companies you can run.

You can install one copy of Office Accounting Professional 2009 on your main computer and another on your laptop computer for your exclusive but non-concurrent use. To install a version of Office Accounting Professional 2009 on more than two computers, you must obtain another license for the program. On the same computer, you can install or reinstall as many times as you like.

You need to have a license for each installation of Office Accounting Professional 2009 whether it is on a server or a desktop.

Go to the system requirements page for more information.

You can get updates for Office Accounting Professional 2009 by going to the Office Online downloads page.

Office Accounting Professional 2009 has been designed to work smoothly with other Microsoft Office system programs. Its integration with Office Word 2007 enables you to customize any documents like quotes and invoices by using existing or new templates. You can then use e-mail to send these invoices to your customers by using Office Outlook 2007. The integration with Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager helps ensure that all financial and marketing information is available centrally, and changes made in any one program automatically show up in the other. Furthermore, Outlook users can view financial information from within Outlook, use Outlook to create invoices, quotes, and sales orders, submit timesheets from Outlook, and track time in the Outlook calendar. Reports for business insight can be created in Office Accounting Professional 2009 and then exported to Office Excel 2007, with its rich formatting, for deeper analysis and calculations. The analysis pack included with Office Accounting Professional 2009 enables viewing financial data in Excel, PivotTable reports, and Microsoft Office Access reports.

Yes, Office Accounting Professional 2009 works with Microsoft Office XP and Microsoft Office 2003. However, some features may not be supported by older releases.

Office Accounting Express and Standard customers can receive free e-mail support, with one business day response time. Professional customers can receive phone and e-mail support with one business day response time. You're also welcome to participate in an Office Accounting Professional 2009 newsgroup to share your trial experiences with others and ask for advice. Visit the Office Accounting Professional 2009 home page for detailed product information.