Great Plains
Taking it to the next level.
While Small Business Financials is built on the Great Plains platform many small businesses have the need for more enhanced features. Existing Small Business Financials customers can make a smooth transition by simply backing up their database, loading Great Plains, restoring their database and back to work! New customers can easily import existing data from other accounting systems.
Great Plains features are designed for forward-thinking, small business organizations committed to improving their business performance. These customers want their financial systems to remove information barriers that are holding them back. They also want reduced risk and improved return on investment. Great Plains is more than a financial software system; it is a foundation upon which to build.
Great Plains Standard core modules:
These Great Plains modules have the components you need to master your financial picture and streamline sales and purchasing. Great Plains allows you to control costs and improve efficiency across your organization by automating the financial, distribution and purchasing functions. Microsoft Great Plains Accounting Software will help you track and analyze your business information, and improve productivity throughout your organization, regardless of business size. Easy access to information, connected business processes and accurate reporting capabilities provide you with a fully integrated business management solution.
General Ledger:
is the hub for accounting information across your organization, offering the flexibility to adapt to changing needs with process controls to ensure accuracy and consistency. Extensive setup flexibility lets you define differing account structures for each company you control, and up to 367 fiscal periods can be defined for precise financial period control.
General Ledger (pdf 128kb)
Bank Reconciliation:
is the intersection for all bank-related activity throughout Great Plains Accounting Software, providing a straightforward, consistent approach to managing your bank transactions. Automating your bank reconciliation processes with Great Plains saves time, lowers administrative costs and gives you tight control over this important business process.
Bank Reconciliation (pdf 113kb)
Accounts Payable:
helps you track and analyze extensive vendor information, efficiently process accounts payable transactions, and make the most of vendor discounts while maximizing cash flow within your accounting software. Streamlined master record and transaction entry, flexible payment entry systems, in-depth analysis reports and detailed vendor inquiries allow payables personnel to turn knowledge into leverage when managing payables activities. Serving as the link between general ledger and your accounts payable systems.
Accounts Payable (pdf 137kb)
Accounts Receivable Management:
is the critical meeting point between your accounting software and the reason you're in business-your customer. Detailed customer and sales data provides the information managers need to fine-tune product and service offerings, predictable cash flow helps drive business decisions. Timely cash collection gives you the opportunity to invest in your future sooner. And satisfied customers increase business by purchasing more and by spreading the good news to an ever-widening circle of prospects. Receivables Management serves as the pipeline between your sales systems and general ledger, helping you efficiently manage customer statement cycles and cash receipt processes, as well as gather customer and sales data for analysis.
Accounts Receivable Management (pdf 114 kb)
Fixed Asset Management:
provides comprehensive recording, tracking and analyzing capabilities for fixed assets in your accounting software, helping your organization gain the insight you need to make better, more timely management decisions. Setup and asset definition capabilities provide you with superior control over asset maintenance and depreciation. Unlimited books help track assets for corporate, federal tax, alternative minimum tax, adjusted current earnings and more. A comprehensive set of depreciation methods and averaging conventions give you needed flexibility in defining asset attributes. And your organization will have total control over asset retirement and transfer, with full or partial retirement or transfer, and reactivation options.
Fixed Asset Management (pdf 159kb)
