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Coming Soon in Advantage Series 5.3
Advantage Series 5.3 includes a number of new features designed around providing users with more access to critical data. Included in 5.3 will be
unlimited optional fields throughout all Advantage Series applications and modules.
Optional fields allow businesses to customize Advantage Series and provide comprehensive reporting and analysis capabilities across the entire accounting system. Businesses will be able
to manage their own information more effectively and will be able to obtain the information they need to analyze business operations and practices.
Version 5.3 will let you capture the information you need to compete successfully. The new Transaction Analysis and Optional Field Creator application gives you the flexibility of defining
all the information you require in your business for each General Ledger account, customer, vendor, item, transaction, and transaction detail. The optional field feature makes it easy to record and track the information you require from the originating
transaction through to your General Ledger. Imagine being able to trace the optional field information you define for your customers and items to your Order Entry orders, to your Order Entry shipments, to your Order Entry invoices, to your Accounts
Receivable invoices, to the General Ledger journal entry and account. You can now analyze each individual transaction as well as General Ledger account activity and balances. Advantage Series optional fields . . . unlimited power.
Click here for a complete list of the latest features.
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See ACCPAC HR Series in Action!
Discover the powerful features of ACCPAC HR Series in this 1 hour web presentation.
- Automate the tracking of critical details.
- Empower your staff to effectively manage even the most complex HR requirements.
- Free yourself up from time-intensive tasks relating to data management.
- Analyze employee data and make informed decisions to help control costs, and focus on organizational development.
ACCPAC HR Series is a powerful, feature-rich human resource (HR) management solution that enables mid-sized enterprises to effectively collect, manage, calculate and report all employee data. Designed to help you better manage
your human capital, HR Series keeps your staff on track with clear, concise information at their fingertips – calculated and reported in real time.
HR Series can significantly increase productivity and efficiency by reducing paperwork and manual input, and streamline your HR tasks. It automates almost every aspect of the HR process, including maintaining full compliance
with government Human Resource Management requirements, such as COBRA administration and 401(k) management.
HR Series is simple to use, intuitively designed and offers maximum control over your HR information and requirements while reducing the administrative overhead and costs associated with managing your human resources. It is
built to work the way people do – with screens and "Wizards" that lead non-technical users through data entry step-by-step.
Call us for more information or click the above link to register.
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Kerr Consulting Gets a Face Lift
We are very pleased to unveil our new website www.kerr-consulting.com.
From here you'll be able to gain insight on the products and services that we offer, learn about new versions, product announcements, industry award
and much more. In the future we will include archive newsletters, technical tips and much more!
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Marketing costs weighing you down? Here are 10 creative ways to boost business without breaking the bank.
Entrepreneur's Be Your Own Boss magazine -
February 2004
By Gwen Moran
Businesses need to maximize every opportunity for promoting themselves. Surprisingly, that doesn't necessarily mean pricey advertising campaigns and time-consuming promotional programs. Many startup business owners
overlook simple, inexpensive opportunities to promote themselves, reinforce their brands and increase sales through vehicles they already have in place. These opportunities cost far less than most traditional marketing methods and have been very effective for many
entrepreneurs. Here are 10 methods to get you going.
- Invoices: Stuff your statements with special offers or information about new products and services. Graphic designer and marketing consultant Jo Schloeder, 41, sent coupons for
a free hour of services from her Wall, New Jersey, firm, Creative Approach Inc. Since few people in her line of work use coupons, it got attention—and several new projects.
Cost: a few cents to print an information she
- On-hold programming: Use on-hold time to communicate to a captive audience. Instead of playing elevator music, use that valuable time to remind customers about special
promotions or relay useful information. Cost: Record it yourself, and it's free. Professional systems may run upwards of $40 per month. Find providers in the Yellow Pages under "Phone Systems" or "On-hold Messaging."
- Cash register receipts: If you generate receipts for your customers, they should include more than just a transaction record. Dave Ratner, 52, owner of
Dave's Soda & Pet City in Springfield, Massachusetts, an award-winning chain of pet-food and soft-drink retail stores, uses register receipts to
periodically tell customers about specials, events and product reminders in his four stores.
Cost: If your register offers customizing options, $0. If not, staple receipts to information slips for pennies.
- e-Mail signatures: When you get an e-mail from Eva Rosenberg, 50, publisher of TaxMama.com, you'll also get her contact information, a description of her site's unique selling
points, and a tip about what's new at her site. The Northridge, California, tax consultant says her e-signature has helped customers find her contact information easily and has also helped facilitate media interviews. Cost: $0.
- Voice-mail messages: Instead of wasting time with instructions on leaving a message, remind callers to visit your Web site or take advantage of upcoming seasonal promotions.
You could also use your company's tag line or slogan in the message to reinforce awareness.
Cost: $0.
- Phone manner: Be sure whoever answers the phone at your place of business is upbeat and helpful to callers. "That person is your vice president of first impressions," says
Ratner. Employees fielding phone calls should be able to answer simple questions or know where to get answers, especially when a customer or prospect calls.
Cost: $0.
- Stickers: They're not just for preschoolers. When Rosenberg launched her tax consulting business and Web site, she bought 100 red heart stickers that said, "We love referrals."
"We plastered them on everything that went out of our office, and business poured in," recalls Rosenberg. "Simply telling people we wanted referrals made a big difference." Cost: $7.50 for 100 stickers.
- Frequent-buyer clubs: Ratner believes in rewarding loyal customers with gift certificates to his store. He tracks purchases, and when customers get to a certain dollar amount
or quantity, they get a gift certificate for anything in the store. For non-retail businesses, other ways to apply this might be a discount or free gift after a certain number of hours or frequency of purchases. Cost: For 500 small, black-and-white
punch cards to track purchases, approximately $50 to $75. If your point-of-sale or invoicing system already has a method of tracking volume, you can do so internally for even less.
- Product shipments: When you ship or deliver products, include an extra catalog, sales sheet or coupons in the package, making it easier for customers to place additional
orders. Cost: a few cents to a few dollars per piece.
- Occasion cards: Send birthday cards, Thanksgiving cards, congratulations cards—they're great ways to let customers know you care. Cost: about $1.50 per card, plus
postage.
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Mistral Managed Backup
√ Backups are automatic
√ Backups are offsite – immediately
√ Restoring files – even specific versions of files – is very easy
√ Mistral Managed Backup is cost a effective solution for many companies
SECURITY
All data is encrypted using a 448-bit encryption algorithm. You can assign your own private secret key.
FREQUENCY
Backups of user data can normally be scheduled hourly or daily.
FAST-BIT BACKUP
After initial backup, the backups are fast because only
changes are sent to the server. This includes changes inside a file i.e.., just those slides that have changed in a PowerPoint presentation are
sent and not the whole file.
This means little extra space is used for the version history capability.
VERSION HISTORY
You can restore any version of a file you saved within the last 30 days.
MONITORED
All backups are monitored by Mistral Support and if a failure is detected, the customer will be contacted.
OTHER DATA
Options exist for open files, SQL data and Exchange data.
MULTIPLE COPIES
Backups are made to two independent secure data centers - The Infomart in Dallas and Global Switch in London. End of month archives are kept
at your option.
Call us today for more information.
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Technical Corner - Using Keyboard Functions instead of the Mouse
If you’ve done heads down data entry in the past, then you can understand the downfalls of leaving the keyboard for the mouse. Taking your fingers off the keys for that split second to click the mouse can
really slow down your data entry process.
This technical tip contains some basic techniques for using ACCPAC, and describes how to select options and work with records and columns of data, using a keyboard instead of the mouse.
Using Function Keys - The following function keys or "Hot Keys" provide you with shortcuts when working within ACCPAC
F1 Key - Displays online help. Available anywhere in ACCPAC. F5 Key - Displays a finder window to select records from. F7 Key - Displays the information for a record (go button) F9 Key - Enlarge the selected record to display more information about the record (zoom Button)
Using Menu Commands & Buttons
Data entry forms display similar menus (for example, file and help menus) Thus you need to become familiar with only a few commands and buttons to work with ACCPAC data entry forms.
Alt/S - Use to save changes made to the displayed record. Alt/D - Use to delete the displayed records. Page Up - Navigation buttons Page Down - Navigation buttons Ctrl/Page Up - Navigation buttons Ctrl/Page Down - Navigation buttons Alt/E - Use to set criteria to specify records to display in the finder
Working with Columns of Data
- Insert - insert a blank row to add a new record.
- Delete - remove a selected row.
- Tab or Enter - Go to the next or previous column in a list.
- #or $Arrows -
Go up or down one row.
- "or!Arrows -
Go right or left in a column.
- Page up - Go to the top row in a view.
- Page Down - Go to the bottom row in a view.
- Home - Go to the first row in a list.
- End - Go to the last row in a list.
We hope you've found this technical tip helpful.
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Kerr Consulting & Support Offices:
Corporate Office:
25510 McDonald Rd., The Woodlands, TX 77380
Phone: 281-364-8783, Fax: 281-296-0805
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