Microsoft Business Solutions Partner ALTARA

Microsoft Business Solutions for Project Management–Great Plains® provides the tools organizations need to effectively manage project performance while ensuring budgets are met and billing is both accurate and timely. With Microsoft Project Management, cash flow is improved and costs are better managed. Full integration among modules streamlines invoicing, time and expense reporting approvals, and reporting, helping you drive strategic direction.

Available with Great Plains and Great Plains Standard
Maintain tight control over strategic direction, support resources effectively, and ensure that projects are completed on time and within budget. Project Accounting connects project activities with company financials, provides extensive reporting capabilities, and helps ensure accurate accounting and billing processes throughout project life-cycles.

Increase Employee Productivity
Equip employees with easy access to key project information and templates that enable them to perform routine project and budget tasks quickly.

Track Unlimited Contracts and Projects
Create contracts, budgets, and projects with as much or as little detail as you need. Easily track project status and profitability, labor, equipment, materials, and employee expenses.
Stay Informed About Budget Changes and Revenues
Track and control change orders by line item or by the original budget and use enhanced reporting capabilities to display the exact information you need.

Manage Intrastat Statistics
Enter and maintain the Intrastat information you need when working with European Union (EU) vendors and customers.
Work with Flexible Accounting Methods
Gain complete control over your General Ledger accounts while maintaining the detail you require for project tracking and reporting.

Capture Project-Related Time and Expenses
Extend capabilities with PS Time and Expense. Create, approve, and track project-related timesheets and expenses online or offline, while integrating that information into project accounting.

Ensure Timely, Accurate Billing
Automate invoicing processes to meet project-specific needs by tailoring billing options and customizing invoice formats.
Focus on: Comprehensive Tools for Project Management
Professional project managers can face an overwhelming task—controlling resources and data amidst a flood of information. Project Accounting gives them the tools they need to handle data effectively and manage their project resources confidently and successfully, while helping ensure that budgets are met and projects are completed according to schedule.

Key Benefits:

Analyze financial data

Decision Making

Deep visibility into your data

Control your processes with ease

Integrates with your other applications seamlessly

Key Features:

Great Plains supports your entire business and allows you to work with powerful features, including:

Project Management Support: Set up and track profitability, utilization, and realization of projects with customized revenue recognition, account integration, and the project or budget configuration that best fits your needs.

Change Order Management: Create and track change orders at all levels of your budget or project, down to the individual line items, or by looking back to the original budget prior to changes.

Efficient Billing Processes: Automate invoicing processes and ensure accuracy with flexible billing options, including billing by cycle or by percentage complete on a project.

Flexible Invoicing:
Fifty-five invoice formats can be customized based on customer needs, including retainer, service, and project fees, as well as third-party or multiple-customer billing.

Integrated Financial Management: Deliver accurate, up-to-date information throughout your financial management solution, with direct integration of receivables, payables, inventory control, and other accounting functions.

Purchase Management: Tailor purchase order and receiving system management with multiple purchase order formats, project-specific optimization, and extensive user-defined options.

Project Inventory Management: Transfer inventory items to your project, with complete control over what will be used and when it will be available for billing.

Expense Tracking: Track billing expenses whose direct costs are recorded elsewhere, such as equipment usage or copying services, so you know how much projects cost in relation to their revenue.

Reports: View, sort, and filter customizable reports and worksheets to see billings to date, revenue per project, change orders, and other project-related information.

Flexible General Ledger Interface: Gain complete control over revenue tracking and customize account distributions, sub accounts, and cost categories.

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