Accounting Express 2009 is an essential tool for managing finances for your home-based or new small business. This easy-to-use accounting program makes pen and paper-based tasks a thing of the past. With the familiar look and feel of Microsoft Office, Accounting Express 2009 is easy to use and helps you save time, get organized, and do business online.

You only need to enter data once so you can save time managing everyday financial tasks. All of your customer and financial information is stored in one place so that you have a complete view of your business. Integrated tools help you sell online through eBay and get paid faster.

Office Accounting Express 2009 is perfect for millions of starting businesses and home-based businesses that currently use pen and paper or spreadsheets to run their business. It provides a single place to manage the company’s business finances with the familiar look and feel of Microsoft Office system programs.

Accounting Express 2009 offers the following benefits:

Easy to learn and use

• The Start-up Wizard gets your company set up within minutes.
• The Resource Center provides a single location to access helpful demos, step-by-step guides, and more.
• The familiar look and feel of other Microsoft Office programs, makes it easy to be productive right away.

Save time managing everyday tasks

• Share and re-use information, enter information only once, and reduce errors.
• Create customized estimates, invoices, and purchase orders.
• Track expenses automatically.
• Automate bank accounts and customer payments. (This service is not provided with all financial institutions. Your financial institution(s) may charge a fee. Contact your financial institution for details.)

See how your business is doing at a glance

• Get real-time insights into your business by using an expanded set of more than 40 predefined reports.
• Export reports to Office Excel 2007 for further analysis in just one click.
• Easily share information with your accountant.
• Share your books with your accountant and allow him or her to work with them while you maintain the ability to continue using them for your day-to-day business.
• Share data with your accountant via Microsoft Office Live security features.

Easily sell on eBay¹

• A step-by-step wizard helps you list items for sale from your Office Accounting inventory and download completed transactions once your items have sold.
• ¹Basic eBay service included. Upgrade to premium eBay service.

Do business with confidence

• Monitor customer and even your own credit by using integrated Equifax services. (Additional third-party service required and fees may apply)

Yes. Microsoft Office Accounting 2009 is the successor to Office Accounting 2008. Office Accounting is offered in two versions: Accounting Express, available for free as a download and Office Accounting Professional.

Read the Accounting 2009 edition comparison.

Accounting Professionals should use Office Accounting Professional 2009 which has special features to enable accounting professionals to be more productive.

• Accountant Transfer Wizard. Clients can now send their books to their accountants and still continue to use Office Accounting Express 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 Express 2009 and update their books.
• Accountant View. From this central location, accountants can independently manage client accounts and payroll, import and export client data, and create journal entries for each client.
• 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.
• 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.

Accounting Express 2009 is designed for millions of starting businesses and home-based businesses that currently use pen and paper or spreadsheets to run their operations. Businesses that grow and need an accounting system that supports inventory, multiple users, or a larger server based database (Microsoft SQL Server can upgrade seamlessly to Accounting Professional 2009.

Accounting Professional 2009 is built to support small businesses that have 25 PCs and 50 employees or fewer. It can be configured as a single user desktop installation by using 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.

Accounting Express 2009 is currently available within the U.S. only.

• The Resource Center with an accountant finder, demos, community tools, and product resources provides a single place to get great help and how-to information.
• Bulk e-mail documents such as Microsoft Office Word, XPS, PDF attachments, or HTML.
• Microsoft Office Excel import allows you to import transactions.
• Competing Accounting Software Import Tool makes it even easier to import your books from other companies’ accounting applications into Microsoft Office Accounting.
• Online banking makes it easier to download bank statements. (This service is not provided with all financial institutions. Your financial institution)s) may charge a fee, contact your financial institution for details.)
• Integration with the 2007 Microsoft Office system You can access Excel and Access reports that you create from within Office Accounting.

Office Accounting Express 2009 is designed to import data from other software including QuickBooks, Office Excel, and Microsoft Money. Note that Office Accounting Express 2009 does not have functionality like inventory management. We recommend that users move to Office Accounting Professional 2009 to reduce any loss in functionality.

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

Yes. Office Accounting Express 2009 is designed to work with payroll services 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 industry.

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

• Payroll servicesPayroll services to help streamline the payroll process. Major credit card required for registration. Offer available to new Marketplace Services and Payroll for Office Accounting users only.
• Equifax credit reporting services to monitor customer and business credit. Additional third-party service required and fees may apply
• Office Live services to help you share financial data with others and to sell online from your Web site.
• eBay integration Basic eBay service included. Upgrade to premium eBay service
• PayPal integration to help you get paid faster.
• Buy checks and forms option to easily order custom business forms.
• Online banking This service is not provided with all financial institutions. Your financial institution(s) may charge a fee; contact your financial institution for details.
• Credit card processing to better serve your customers.

Accounting Express 2009 is available for free as a download.

No. Office Accounting Express 2009 will not be included in any versions of Microsoft Office, however, it is available at no charge as a download.

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

Accounting Express 2009 is designed to be used on a single desktop.

Office Accounting Express 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 Express 2009 easy to learn and use right away.

You can install one copy of Accounting Express 2009 on your main computer and another on your laptop computer for your exclusive but non concurrent use. On the same computer, you can install or reinstall as many times as you like.

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 one user can run.

Go to the system requirements page for more information.

You can get updates for Accounting Express 2009 by going to the Office Online downloads page or Microsoft Update.

Office Accounting Express 2009 has been designed to work smoothly with other Microsoft Office system programs that you may have. It works well with Office Word and helps you 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, Office Outlook users can view financial information from within Office Outlook, use Office Outlook to create invoices, submit timesheets from Office Outlook, and track time in the Office Outlook calendar. Reports for business insight can be created in Office Accounting Express 2009 and then exported to Office Excel, with its rich formatting, for deeper analysis and calculations. The analysis pack included with Accounting Express 2009 enables viewing financial data in Office Excel, PivotTable reports, and Microsoft Office Access reports.

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

You can get a full version of Office Accounting Express 2009 available as a free download from www.ideawins.com a CD is not currently available.

Yes, you can get a full version of Office Accounting Express 2009 available as a free download from www.ideawins.com.

Within Office Accounting Express 2009, you can click on the "Upgrade Today!" button. This brings up the upgrade dialog where you can buy the key for Office Accounting Professional 2009. To upgrade to Office Accounting Professional 2009, you just need to enter the license key when asked, but you don't need to download additional software.

Microsoft provides two free e-mail incidents for Accounting Express 2009 customers. You're welcome to participate in an Office Accounting 2009 newsgroup to share your experiences with others and ask for advice.