Has anyone been using Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2008?
If so, could you provide advice or feedback? I am also wondering when rollout to other Non US countries will occur?
Thanks,
Phil
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Peter J
Interim Manager, Group IT Procurement at Lloyds Banking Group
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Phil
Our company train MS products and SAGE in the UK and we are "playing" with this.
It is available in the UK but the real interest we are seeing is with Accounting Pro (but this is casual discussion on SAGE courses) Again this is available in the UK but to call it a launch would be very much an overstatement. We also doubt that it will replace existing SAGE sites. For new start SMEs though we see a the potential for a big market.
My co-director is keeping a close eye on developments and would, I am sure, be pleased to keep in touch with you over this as time (and take up) moves on. I have recommended her as an expert.
One final thing - when I posted a similar question about 2 months ago I was surprised by the lack of response
Peter
Peter J also suggests this expert on this topic:
From my limited experience i can say that its got a clean layout and very user-friendly interface and some very solid business features. The automatic link to Ebay/Paypal is one of the best features for a small business but it can benefit any type of company.
Some of the features are
- It can charge customers' credit cards
- manage your bank accounts, payroll, and vendors.
- create and log invoices, quotes, cash sales, and even refunds.
- built in PayPal functionality
- built-in Equifax service for looking up credit profiles.
- Integrated into the Microsoft suite 2008
All this for free!!
The paid version has more features,such as multiple user profiles, international currency support, regional transaction tracking, and a fixed asset manager.These features are not essential if yours is a small domestic business in the US.
The main Cons are the huge space/RAM requirement and long time needed to install the software. It also installs other software like SQL Server which takes up even more space.I am also sure it will have some bugs that comes with the Windows environment.
This is supposed to be Microsoft's answer to Intuit's Quickbooks.The advantage for MS is that they already have MS Office(well used) which can be integrated into this software.Its too early in the game to decide on which one is better.It also depends on the type of circumstance.
I hope this helps clear some of your doubts.
Let me know if you have any questions
Thanks
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Salik R
Owner and Founder of Chameeya S. S. Ltd.
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It is already here in the UK. I have played with it a bit and I intend to beging using it from my new fiscal year (Feb 1). If you put everything into it, you then e-mail the file to your accountant who should easily be able to create your accounts.
If I wasn't doing things on paper (eek!) I would not bother switching.
