Best Software Brings More Capabilities to BSAN Members  (email this article)

Chicago - August 25, 2004 - Today at Illinois CPA Society’s 2004 Business and Technology Solutions Show in Chicago, Best Software (Company Profile, Past Stories, Case Studies) announced the availability of ACT! 2005 to its Best Software Accountants’ Network (BSAN) members, as part of the BSAN software libraries. Yesterday, in New York City’s Times Square, Best Software debuted its ACT! 2005 contact and customer management product family, launching the most expansive architecture and features introduction in the product’s 17-year history. With this launch, BSAN members now have access to this latest offering in a wide range of resources to help accountants more efficiently manage their firms and their clients. The latest version of the award-winning ACT! product will provide BSAN members with hands-on technology and supporting training in the growing area of contact management. This will enable accountants to run their practices more effectively and to better support their clients, giving them a competitive edge through broader exposure to the kinds of technology that their clients are increasingly adopting to manage their own operations.

“Now that ACT! is part of the BSAN library, accountants can become more easily acquainted with the product,” said Steven L. Shapiro, CPA, a member of BSAN. “Like all CPAs, I am constantly under numerous deadlines with multiple clients. ACT! is an easy to use, flexible solution that helps me manage my time and projects, keep records of oral and written correspondence, and much more. Running my business without it would be like trying to defeat Godzilla with a baseball bat.”

Besides the ACT! 2005 product library, BSAN members also have access to libraries for an array of Best Software products, including Peachtree, FAS, Abra, MAS 90, MIP Fund Accounting, Timeslips, CPASoftware, and BusinessWorks Gold.

Earlier this summer, CPASoftware introduced the CPAPractice Manager - Time & Billing Edition, and at this week’s Business and Technology Solutions Show, the company announced that the product is now available through the BSAN program. CPAPractice Manager - Time & Billing Edition brings comprehensive time and billing capabilities to accounting firms with up to 10 employees who have outgrown their current time and billing system, and are searching for a more robust, yet affordable, solution to meet their burgeoning needs.

“Best Software is committed to providing all the tools the accountant community needs to provide the best possible service to their clients and effectively manage their practices,” said Ray Jimison, general manager for CPASoftware and BSAN. “The addition of CPAPractice Manager - Time & Billing Edition to our BSAN offerings clearly supports this goal.”

Visitors to this week’s show will also have the opportunity to preview BusinessWorks Gold 5.0, which will be available in September, and includes significant enhancements, such as:

• Deactivation of Customers, Vendors, Parts and GL Accounts: Enables businesses to hide inactive records when performing search lookups, for streamlined searches, reporting, and minimizing of data errors.

• Advanced Power Search: Now, employees can customize their lookup parameters to meet their unique needs. They can select the field to search on, hide and rearrange columns and change the sort order of a column.

• Inventory PO Reconciliation: This new report assists in identifying billing issues or data entry errors, saving time in the process.

• Expanded pricing levels: Companies can define up to 25 pricing levels for each item in inventory, and even specify the active price level for each specific part.

Other enhancements include Improved Installation, Improved Sort Order, Additional Search Criteria, and more.

Best Software can be found at Illinois CPA Society’s 2004 Business and Technology Solutions Show in Booth #605, at the Rosemont Convention Center. To learn more about the Best Software Accountants’ Network (BSAN) or to join, please call 866-565-2726 or visit www.bestaccountantsnetwork.com.

About Best Software, Inc.
Best Software offers leading business management products and services that give more than 2.3 million small and mid-sized customers in North America the insight for success throughout the lives of their businesses. Its parent company, The Sage Group plc (London: SGE.L), supports 4.3 million customers worldwide. For more than 25 years, Best Software has delivered easy-to-use, scalable and customizable applications through its portfolio of leading brands, including Abra, ACCPAC, ACT!, BusinessVision, CPASoftware, FAS, MAS 90, MAS 200, MAS 500, MIP, Peachtree, SalesLogix, Timberline, among many others. For more information, please visit the Web site at www.bestsoftware.com/moreinfo or call (866) 308-BEST.