loot appear i ‘on Krad band a i eng 2 lakel eomni jw me | we tsoo ral wee ih dea .th aIom LS" Th yo Wed nn wu an ace I:i a fy Ni ‘ ty ol Cen wth ner Ate 0)eaYR DUaot Turning To The Internet To Help Manage Finances (NAPSA)—A growing number of small business owners are going online to improve their company’s bottom line. In addition to selling their products, they are also turning to the Internet for help with managing their finances. For example, Nora LaBrocca, the owner of a company thatsells garden accessories recently created a Web site so she could sell her products online. However, even though she was doing business online, she still relied on four computer spreadsheets to manually enterall of the company’s financial data. Even more time consuming was the task of totaling each report individually to gain a comprehensive view of the company’s status. Fortunately for LaBrocca, all that changed when she discovered a Web-based accounting program that could automate her financial data, such as sales reports, expenses, accounts payable and accountsreceivable. Called Microsoft’s bCentral Finance Manager, the program interacts directly with her e-com- merce transaction data. This means the company’s records are always up to the minute. The program also reduces the amount of time small-business owners spend on accounting by automating repetitive tasks and making key financial information easy to access, with more than 25 reports just a mouseclick away. “As a small-business owner, time is my most valuable asset,” LaBrocca says. “I’ve really reduced the time I spend on accounting: now all I do is click on one link to Web-based accounting provides small companies with the features associated with computer software accounting. @ see a complete financial overview of my company. Microsoft bCentral Finance Manager makesit simple for me to view my finances monthly and yearly.” Web-based accounting provides small companies with all the fea- tures of computer software account- ing with the benefits of the Internet, including access from anywhere,at any time. According to Erin Hiraoka,director of marketing for Microsoft bCentral, “bCentral Finance Managernot only makes routine financial data entry easier, it also streamlines accounting tasks to help businesses become moreefficient.” To learn more about this and other Web-based tools from Microsoft bCentral, visit the Web site at www.bcentral.com.
