Office for Small Business Management

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Office for Small Business Management

To help small business owners and managers meet the challenges of running their businesses, Microsoft is announcing a new edition of Microsoft Office for small business management designed to provide a single, comprehensive solution to help make it easier for small businesses to manage their business.

Scheduled for release in late 2005, this edition includes familiar Microsoft Office 2003 programs along with an updated version of Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager and Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting—a new financial management solution.

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Test New Small Business Management Software

If you are a small business owner or manager, or if you work with business information in a small company, you know best what your company needs from a financial management package.

Join a select group to test the pre-release version of Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting—a new full-featured, easy to use financial management program and an updated version of Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager. When combined with Microsoft Office 2003, these applications help small businesses make it easier to manage their business.

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First Look: Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting

If you're keeping business books using Excel and Word, you'll be happy to learn there's a better way. Microsoft has announced Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting (Office SBA for short), aimed at making life easier for spreadsheet bookkeepers.

Although it's still in beta, I had a chance to put the new software through its paces. I found that Office SBA plugs a yawning gap in Microsoft's product line that Intuit's QuickBooks has very successfully exploited. Office SBA is aimed at businesses that have outgrown Excel for spreadsheet-style books but aren't quite ready to move up to Microsoft's more capable Small Business Manager Accounting ($995 for a single user).

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