WHAT IS AccountingPRO™?

AccountingPRO™ is a comprehensive, flexible, pre-built QuickBooks^® data file created to meet the specific needs of the home building industry. It is designed for builders, remodelers, developers, contractors (and staff), and to assist the accountants who support them.

AccountingPRO™ was designed by Diane C.O. Gilson, a construction-industry-focused Certified QuickBooks^® ProAdvisor, Certified Public Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor, trainer, and consultant with more than 25 years’ accounting experience. Since 1994 she has worked closely with hundreds of home building clients and staff to help them use QuickBooks^® to:

• Master traditional financial accounting and reporting.
• Conquer industry-specific accounting requirements.
• Create reliable and timely job-costing systems.
• Implement profit-enhancing financial and management controls.

WHAT ARE YOUR NEEDS?

While many home building industry business owners need access to detailed, job-based, in-house financial information on a day-to-day basis, most have experienced various difficulties in achieving this goal.

Please take the following quiz:

1. Have you had difficulty finding an accountant who understands the home building industry, knows QuickBooks^®, and provides you with timely financial information?
2. Are you frustrated by the state of your financial records?
3. Are you ready to grow your company but concerned that your financial system is holding you back?
4. Would you be more profitable if you could regularly review detailed job-cost reports?
5. Would you like to create timely, accurate, and useful profit and loss reports for your company from within your own office?
6. Do you want to see labor burden costs automatically allocated to jobs?
7. Are you disappointed with the results you have obtained thus far with QuickBooks^®?
8. Have you spent too much time and money creating, maintaining, or cleaning up your current accounting system?
9. Are you willing to implement proven financial controls to enhance profits?
10. Do you want big-system results at a small-system price?

If you answered “Yes” to any of the preceding questions, you will find that AccountingPRO™ can help you achieve the results you have been searching for.

THE SOLUTION

AccountingPRO™ is designed to help business owners (or their accountants), to quickly, and most effectively, utilize the powerful and advanced capabilities of QuickBooks^®.

The pre-built, customizable file includes:

• A Chart of Accounts with more than 350 properly titled and numbered potential accounts.
• An Item List with more than 336 potential job-stage categories and 1,500 related easy-entry Items individually linked to the Chart of Accounts.
• Special Customer:Jobs to support advanced job-costing features.
• An extensive Payroll Item List to track specific activities and labor costs (useful for Worker's Comp. or union reports.)
• Other special Payroll Items for automatic labor burden allocations.
• More than 60 sample transactions (with built in directions.) Use them to post actual entries!
• Other pre-built Lists (e.g. Payment Method List, Terms List, Vendor Type List, and Customer Type List) support quick start up
• Pre-selected Company File Preferences access the QuickBooks^® features most often needed by home building companies.

AccountingPRO™ also includes extensive training materials and documentation:

• Accounting with QuickBooks^® Pro for Builders and Remodelers (315 pp): Consult this book ($60 value) for underlying accounting concepts, insights, controls, procedures, and management tips. Reader-friendly text helps non-accountants understand construction accounting basics, while illustrations and step-by-step instructions guide the user through the basic entries that lead to useful reports.
• AccountingPRO™ User's Guide (82 pp): The user-friendly manual guides users through the initial start-up process and opening entries, and offers a variety of extra topics for those wishing to fully utilize advanced features.

BENEFITS

Flexibility

• Choose simple or detailed Accounts.
• Choose simple or detailed job-cost Items.
• As needs change, activate and inactivate elements within Lists with a single mouse-click.
• Edit pre-built names to agree with your existing situation.
• Use existing elements as models to quickly add new elements.

Documentation and training

The accompanying book and manual provide in-depth consulting guidance on an extensive variety of critical topics, such as how to:

• Eliminate “structural” start-up errors in QuickBooks^®.
• Minimize duplication of efforts.
• Reduce data-entry errors.
• Maximize data-entry speed.
• Use QuickBooks^® for complex transactions and advanced job-cost recording techniques such as:
  • Job-cost refunds.
  • Work-in-Process entries.
  • Percentage-of-Completion invoices.
  • Home sales/closing transactions.
  • Assigning land-development allocations to lots.
  • Implement month-end procedures and basic small-business financial controls.

Logical, useful reports

• Logical Lists = Logical reports.
• Traditional financial statements (e.g. Balance Sheet and Income Statement) are typically suitable for bankers and tax preparers.
• “Estimated vs. Actual” job cost detail reports provide critical operating information.

Economy

• Avoid common QuickBooks^® structural start-up errors.
• Save hundreds of hours in QuickBooks^® start-up input.
• QuickBooks^® is an economical, proven accounting platform.
• AccountingPRO™ requires no ongoing upgrades or maintenance service.
• Benefit from thousands of hours of home-builder problem solving.

Enhanced Profitability

• Gain in-house control over business records and critical financial information.
• Faster access to useful information lets you make quicker course corrections and better day-to-day decisions.
• Use improved information to achieve more effective operations, company growth, and higher profits.

VIEW A POWERPOINT TOUR OF AccountingPRO™

High speed internet connection? If you have a high speed internet connection (e.g., cable, DSL, etc.) you can click on the link below to begin viewing the tour. You will see a white screen while the tour loads. The slide show demonstration will begin automatically within approximately one to three minutes. (To view the tour, it may be necessary to download the PowerPoint Viewer using the link below.)

Dial-Up Connection? Problems with download? If you have a dial-up internet connection, or if you experience problems with the download, please e-mail us at help@infoplusacct.com. Include your name, company name, and mailing address and we will send you a CD-ROM containing the tour and the PowerPoint Viewer.

The PowerPoint Tour: The tour (PowerPoint slide show) will last approximately 20 minutes and will automatically recycle until you choose to end it by pressing the "Esc" key.

If you wish to pause on a page during the tour, press the "+" key; to resume press the "+" key again. If the show reverts into the underlying PowerPoint screen, "F5" will restart the show. (Hint: For a list of additional PowerPoint commands while the show is playing, press the F1 key.)

ORDERING INFORMATION

NAHB Members: please inquire about discounts.

To purchase AccountingPRO™ click here.