More on Sage Re-Branding

Sage is regarded as one of the leaders in financial management applications for small and midsized businesses (SMBs) with a portfolio of business management solutions that helps businesses more easily manage their operations.

Starting 2012, a re-branding of products will be introduced to strengthen its position for the brand.

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Simply Accounting DBM Financial Position part 3

Total Debt-to-Assets (Today)

Total Debt-to-Assets (Today) is a measure of financial leverage. It indicates the proportion of assets that have been financed with debt. It also roughly indicates the degree of risk held by creditors. The target value depends on the variability and certainty of cash flows. The

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Financial Position part 2

Expenses to Prior Year % (Fiscal MTD)

Expenses to Prior Year % (Fiscal MTD) is the percentage of current expenses incurred this month to expenses incurred this month last

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Financial Position part 1

Average Day outstanding – Payable (Today)

The Average Days Outstanding – Payable is the average number of days that vendors have been waiting for payment after invoicing. It is also a measure of performance in handling accounts payable. The target value will range between the number of days given before early

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Toward a Strong Sage Brand

Toward a Strong Sage Brand

Written by Dennis Frahmann, EVP, Marketing for Sage North America

In July at Sage Summit 2011, Sage announced a branding strategy that prompted a lot of feedback and interest. In simplest terms, the Sage strategy is to move from a house of product names cobranded with Sage to a strong branded house, emphasizing Sage. Sage is moving away from a model like Adobe Systems, where individual products such as Adobe Photoshop are emphasized for different markets and needs, toward a model like Cisco, where the focus is on how the Cisco portfolio can help meet its customers’ network needs.
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What’s new in Simply Accounting 2011?

Sage Simply Accounting 2011

The following are new features included in Sage Simply Accounting 2011:

Sage Simply Accounting First Step

File GST and HST Returns Online

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Simply Accounting DBM – Profitability

Any business, with the intention to sustain and grow should be able to check on profitability.  Periods to monitor should be capsulized to obtain insights or the “big picture”.    In Simply Accounting, you can easily do that through the Daily Business Manager

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Simply Accounting DBM – Budgets

Budgeting in real scenario is a great challenge!  But it makes a business owner and manager think of what should be done in the future periods. In Simply Accounting, a single budget version can be defined.   Budget for nominal (or Income Statement) accounts can be achieved.  For revenues, just give a best forecast of your sales.

Shown below are what Simply Accounting offers.

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Cash Flow Management in Simply Accounting

As a business owner, manager and accountant myself,  I would like to see in my accounting software, top level whistles and red flags.  Today, I am going to present one excellent feature of Simply Accounting which I personally use in a client – the Daily Business Manager.  The Daily Business Manager (or DBM) is divided into 4 groups:

1. Cash Flow Management: How well you are managing the expected revenues and expenses?

2. Financial Position: How well has your company been performing?

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What’s new in Simply Accounting 2009?

Following are new features included in all editions of Simply Accounting 2009.

More Platforms to Store Your Company Data.

The Simply Accounting Connection Manager is supported on the following platforms:

• Windows 2000
• Windows XP
• Windows Vista
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