1. MYOB Business Essentials Pro Ryan Alacon HTM 304 04-21-04

2. Main Features  Premier Accounting  ledger, banking, sales & receivables, purchases & payables, time billing, payroll, inventory and contact management, plus full powered features and functionality.  allows you to accept credit cards from your MYOB invoice, offer direct deposit of employee paychecks, pay vendors electronically, print certified payroll forms on plain paper  Financial Forecaster  Forecasting software that lets you know how much money you’re likely to make next month, next year or anytime down the road.

3. Main Features  Staff Files  Human resources software that helps you manage employee information accurately and securely.  Logo Creator  Logo design software that makes it easy to create a professional look for your BusinessBasics invoices, checks and other forms or for your website.

4. STAFF FILES

5. PAYROLL

6. Application into a business  Keep track of inventory  Use various tools to do all necessary accounting and financial operations.  Keep track of sales, receivables and payables, and create ledger accounts.  Give employees the option to do direct deposit.  Forecast future earnings as competition get stronger.  Find ways to reduce costs and maximize profit.

7. Strengths vs. Weaknesses Strengths  Easy to use.  Customizable framework for accounting operations.  Simple payroll capabilities.  Allows you to forecast future outcomes. Weaknesses  Each program has to be installed separately.  Limited online banking and cash-flow forecasting.  Not suited for bigger companies.

8. Where to buy?  MYOB website: $299  Fry’s Electronics, Outpost.com: $299.99, $75 rebate  Ecost.com: $274.00, $100 rebate  Ecost.com offers the cheapest price over all other retailers, including the MYOB website.

9. Recommendations  This product is great for small to mid-size businesses.  As a computer program it is incapable of utilizing human qualitative characteristics (experience, judgment, etc.)  Use a strong computer set-up to run this program fast and efficiently.  Requires 155MB of hard drive space.  Pentium processor or equivalent @ 200MHz or better, at least 32 MB of ram.  Click here for the product assessment web page Click here for the product assessment web page