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The Easiest Small Business Bookkeeping -For Windows ... Read more

Features

• Complete Bookkeeping for business people. No need to know a debt from a credit-ever!
• Stuningly simple-yet loaded with tools to run your business better!

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The scheduling package includes spreadsheets to schedule your employees to rotating shifts, complex shifts or split shifts and two spreadsheets that will automatically schedule your people to up to 3 or 6 daily shifts. All of the spreadsheets produce individual and group schedules as well as monthly calendars. The Rotating Shift Scheduler is ideal for businesses that operate 24/7 and wish to rotate employee days off or shifts on a regular basis. The built-in vacation scheduler allows you to assign vacation days or other absences to your employees and then assign other employees to cover the vacated shifts. The CD includes over 150 example 8, 10 and 12 hour schedules for your consideration. The Complex Shift Scheduler age-related work rules feature prevents you from assigning any of your employees to shifts that would violate youth work rules. Daily, weekly and monthly budgets can be tracked based on individual employee wages and scheduled hours. This spreadsheet is ideal for situations where your employees have limited availability or where your staffing needs vary considerably over a 24 hour period requiring you to create a unique schedule for each of your employees. The 3 Shift Automatic Scheduler allows you to schedule lunch breaks as well as 2 other daily breaks. Shift staffing can vary considerably from one day to another or from one shift to another and the program will automatically fill your shifts. These spreadsheets create monthly schedules one-week-at-a-time for up to a month and works equally-well for businesses that are open 5, 6 or 7 days a week. ... Read more

Features

• Five Excel spreadsheets to schedule your employees to various types of work shifts.
• Spreadsheets produce individual and group schedules as well as monthly calendars.
• Rotating Shift Scheduler creates schedules of up to 52 weeks with either fixed or rotating shifts and either fixed or rotating days off.
• Complex Shift Scheduler allows you to assign each of your people to a daily shift, employee category, and location (or task) for up to a month. The Split Shift Scheduler is like the Complex Shift Scheduler, but you can assign people to 2 daily shifts.
• Use the 3 and 6 Shift Automatic Schedulers for up to 6 eight hour shifts per day - schedule your people to 40 hours a week with 2 days off. Convert your daily workload fluctuations into daily shifts with the S2-Shift Maker.

Reviews (1)

Easy way to create work schedules
I have 22 employees in my hardware store. After fumbling for a few months with an Excel spreadsheet trying to create weekly schedules, I looked around and found Visual Staff Scheduler. I decided to try it out and discovered there is a much easier way to create work schedules. I'm able to create my schedules weeks in advance in half the time. The price is also very reasonable at $129. I would recommend this software to anyone that has to create work schedules. ... Read more

Features

• #1 Rated and Best Selling Business Plan Software
• Test your idea with 10,000 industry profiles
• Create your plan with 400+ sample business plans
• Get funded with the preferred format
• Fastest way to write a plan

Reviews (8)

Roadmap to Success
Our company lacked focus and had failed to produce any financial projections during the first 18 months of operations. We were making money but our growth was stagnant. A business coach recommended Business Plan Pro and said our first priority was to write a business plan and project revenues for 5 years out. Business Plan Pro simplified the process and helped us determine the overall direction of the company. In the last 12 months we have acquired several new clients and our sales are up 28% from the prior-year-to-date. Thanks for the great program!

Disservice to Anyone Who Wants a Fundable Business Plan
This software is a joke for anyone who would want to use it to get a bank loan or venture capital. For example, you can set a 3-year or 5-year forecast. Then it asks you to apply a growth rate to your year 1 sales, and it applies that growth rate over the entire forecast. Anyone knows that growth rates vary year-to-year based on the stage of your business.

I won't even get into how bad the expense forecasting section is.

Anyone trying to raise money will be told their plan is worthless when they present it to investors. Whether the funding source comes from a bank or VC, they will want to see a monthly (12 months) build to a quarterly (12 quarters) to an annual (5 years). In other words, they (and you should) want to see if the cash you're asking for will cover the needs within the financing period. This software won't support such a basic, critical requirement.

Don't waste your money. This software is amateur.

Too Rigid
I find the ideas solid and the package layout is good . It is just too rigid. You have to stay between their lines and if you deviate it becomes an "export, cut and paste thing". You cannot modify within their software. So if you have any customized charts or such like, these need to be store in a seperate file while the text etc. of the business plans is kept in the dedicate Business Plan Pro software.Overall it is not a "bad " product just not as flexible as you would want it.

Business Plan Pro-Better than a sharp stick in the eye.
Business Plan Pro is better than a sharp stick in the eye, but not much better.That 5 star review sounds like it was written by a corporate shill.Let me tell you about BP Pro

Business Plan Pro is a half-fast program.It has some of the functionality of Excel but doesn't allow linking between worksheets. It has some of the functionality of Word, but you can't remove a row once you have inserted a heading.For example, if you decide that you don't need a "Personal Assistant" you still have a row in the personel spreadsheet thathas to be edited later.The formula backtracker is cumbersome, it takes you back to the precedents, but doesn't have a return feature.These are only but a few of the many built-in aggrievations.Everytime you try and get some detail, it refers you to the Premier edition which costs $250.That's insulting.

If you are starting a business for the first time, my advice is to sign up for a night course on business plans and use the software they give you.

an MBA in a box
Like most people starting a business, I don't have much of a finance background and have not had to write a business plan before. Based on a recommendation from a friend, I checked out Business Plan Pro.

The software helped me the whole way through and the sample plans were a huge help. Each plan that I looked at was over 35 pages and included all the financials for the business. I was very impressed by the level of writing in the samples and used some of the examples to help with my own writing.

The financial help was enormous. I could not have done it without the software. It helped me build my sales forecast and cash flow, something I could not have done on my own.

I highly recommend this software to anyone starting a business. ... Read more

Features

• Tons of extras
• Extensive, powerful business planning software
• Easily create and edit plans based on templates and customized projections
• Expanded planning and spreadsheet capabilities
• Easy electronic collaboration

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Business software bundle: Includes , Peachtree First Accounting 2004, McAfee VirusScan Online, Quicken New User Edition, Laplink Gold 11.5, Expensable 6, Quicken Legal Business Pro 2004, Easy Translator V. 4, Quicken Will Maker Plus 2004, Form Tool V. 5, Smart Business Plan Deluxe, Infotrac Personal, Turbo Project 4.0, 3001 Business & Sales Letters, Ability Photopaint Studio, Personal Record Keeper, Financial PowerTools, IClean for Windows, Stuffit Standard 8.0, IAnnotate-it, ICapture-it, IOrganize-it, DiscKeeper Lite, Eudora Pro Email, MusicMatch Jukebox 7.5, Open Office ... Read more

Features

• Business software bundle: Includes OpenOffice.org, Peachtree First Accounting 2004, McAfee VirusScan Online, Quicken New User Edition, Laplink Gold 11.5, Expensable 6, Quicken Legal Business Pro 2004, Easy Translator V. 4, Quicken Will Maker Plus 2004,
• Form Tool V. 5, Smart Business Plan Deluxe, Infotrac Personal, Turbo Project 4.0, 3001 Business & Sales Letters, Ability Photopaint Studio, Personal Record Keeper, Financial PowerTools, IClean for Windows, Stuffit Standard 8.0, IAnnotate-it, ICapture-it, I

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The availability of data and information is a key driver in modern corporate life. To make competent informed business decisions, people need to be able to access data when they want it, be confident that the data is both timely and accurate, and get the data in the desired format. Their ability to do this is largely dependent upon the quality and strength of the data storage and retrieval system. Data warehouses serve as the central repository of all corporate information. With the release of SQL Server 7, Microsoft has created an affordable, completely integrated data warehousing solution. This 5-part curriculum is designed to teach individuals how to use SQL Server 7 to plan, design, implement, and maintain enterprise data warehouses. This curriculum begins with general coverage of data warehouse concepts and planning/design requirements, and then moves into specific implementation and maintenance capabilities found in SQL Server 7. ... Read more

Features

• Identify the characteristics of different decision support systems and components and tools used in data warehousing.
• Identify the different techniques for gathering data.
• Identify the basic requirements of the data warehouse.
• Identify the guidelines for determining various analysis requirements.

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Designing & Implementing Data Warehouses Using Microsoft SQL
Course Overview
The Implementing a Database Design on Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Curriculum is designed for IT professionals responsible for implementing a database solution with Microsoft SQL Server 7.0. This curriculum will help students prepare for Microsoft certification exam 70-029, Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft SQL Server 7.0. Skills taught in this series include construct and manage databases; implement data integrity; create and maintain indexes; query multiple tables using Transact-SQL statements; define transactions and set transaction isolation levels; access data by using the Stored Procedure model; access data using triggers; and set up a distributed environment to access, modify and manage remote data.

This curriculum consists of five Skill Builder courses:
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0: Implementing a Database - Part 1
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0: Implementing a Database - Part 2
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0: Implementing a Database - Part 3
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0: Implementing a Database - Part 4
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0: Implementing a Database - Part 5

Certification Requirements: This curriculum contains content that will help prepare students for the MCSE Elective, MCSE+I Elective, MCSD Elective, MCDBA Core certifications and Exam 70-029.

Learn To
See individual course descriptions for specific course objectives and scope.

Audience
These courses are designed for IT professionals responsible for implementing a database solution with Microsoft SQL Server 7.0.

Deployment Options
e-Learning

Accreditation
NASBA credits: 4 CPE Credits Per Course
ITCAP credits: 2.5 Credit Hours
CEU credits: 3.50 CEUs

Language Options
US English

Total Learning Time
30 to 40 hours

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Property Management Software Tenant Information: Keep track of your tenant contact information, phone numbers, mailing address, children names, email addresses, and everything you can possibly need from your tenant. Annual Cash Flow: Keep track of your annual cash flow with this software feature. Track your maintenance costs, management, taxes, insurance, annual income, vacancy allowance, advertising costs, legal fees, and much, much more. This is a must have! Tenancy Manager: This feature allows you to keep track of start date of lease, end date, lease terms, rent payable, due dates, security deposit amounts, meter times and more. Transactions: This feature allows you to keep track of expenses paid, categories, amounts, along with income tracking plus much more. Print a profit and loss statement and get your books organized! Maintenance Contacts: Keep quick access to your maintenance contractors information easily with this software! Task Scheduler: Keep up with and log your daily tasks. Very helpful to be able to manage your tasks and make sure they are completed! Mortgage Page: Keep track your loan numbers, lender information, payment amounts due dates of your first, second and third mortgages, loan amounts and much more! Taxes/Insurance Page: Track all of your taxes and insurance information. This data page keeps track of your different coverages, liability, personal, policy periods, due dates, deductibles, premiums, etc. This feature is a must have! Loan Calculator: Input your principal loan amount and interest rate and will give you a break down of your scheduled payments, you can also print an amortization schedule. Print Reports: Such as Rent Roll Reports, weekly call summary's, contact listings, amortization schedules, Cash Flow Reports, Income Reports, Expense Reports, and Profit/Loss Statements! Print Invoices: Send Next Period Invoices to tenants and set your own logo. Printing Invoices is a snap! ... Read more

Features

• Gold Edition has everything the silver edition has plus:
• Security System: Administrator Passwords, staff passwords and more!
• Word Processor Feature: Includes 28 Real Estate Legal forms with a built in word processor for saving and editing your forms!
• Picture Library: Save pictures of your properties by property names or by category!
• Multiple Accounts: Track multiple accounts and up to 500 units

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Employee Appraiser 4.0 puts the knowledge and experience of Human Resource experts at your fingertips to take the pain out of writing employee evaluations.

Choose from the hundreds of professionally written phrases and paragraphs to get started. With a touch of a button, select the appropriate phrase. When you've got the paragraph you want, choose the Writing Tuner buttons, and adjust the tone or intensity of the paragraph with a mouse click. Then edit it or leave it as is. Employee Appraiser 4.0 is a proven way to write better employee evaluations. And it cuts the time it takes in half. ... Read more

Amazon.com Review

Just what the doctor ordered for a manager with a large staff--EmployeeAppraiser Deluxe 4.0 provides a balanced combination of performance topics,managerial coaching, employee record keeping, and appraisal assistance thatallows managers to create thoughtful and constructive performance evaluationsfor their employees.

Installation was swift and trouble-free. We had Employee Appraiser up andrunning within 10 minutes. It essentially installs itself and opens up to aQuick Start menu, enabling first-time users to choose from help options or todelve immediately into work windows. Although the software comes with a virtualtutor, the program seemed intuitive enough to allow a first-time user to jumpright in and learn by trial and error.

Two of the software's most valuable features include the employee files and thecoaching advisor. Employee files allow a supervisor to maintain a chronologicalrecord of both positive and negative observations, and then to incorporate thosenotes into a comprehensive assessment backed up by in-depth coaching, objectivesetting, and reinforcement. The coaching advisor contains suggestions foremployee development based on 45 different areas of performance rating. Examplesinclude account management, adaptability/flexibility, customer service,interpersonal skills, job knowledge, and more. The wide variety of performancetopics helps to generate a thorough and conscientious analysis of a human beingand keeps managers from worrying about trying to fit all of their employees intoone restrictive mold.

Contrary to its name, Employee Appraiser is more of a managing tool than ashortcut to employee performance reviews. If you're a manager who's panickingabout next month's annual reviews, this is not the program for you.However, when used over a longer period of time, Employee Appraiser can be aneffective tool for dedicated supervisors. --Kendra Hayden ... Read more