Microsoft Small Business Financials

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Microsoft Small Business Financials (formerly Microsoft Small Business Manager) is a business accounting software package. The software is targeting growing small businesses that require more than basic accounting software: [1] with fewer than 25 employees [2] and less than $10 million of revenue. It is part of Microsoft Dynamics (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions) family. It is based on Microsoft Dynamics GP and runs on top of free Microsoft MSDE [3] or SQL Server Express database. [4] Microsoft Small Business Financials and Microsoft Dynamics GP are built on the same platform, so migration to Microsoft Dynamics GP is very simple and straightforward. [2]

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The current version is 9.0. As of January 1, 2009 Small Business Financials 9.0 is no longer for sale to new customers.

The following features are included with the product: [5]

Additional features that may be purchased separately from Microsoft are:

In October 2008 Microsoft announced that Microsoft Small Business Financials is being discontinued and Microsoft is providing a highly discounted migration path to Dynamics GP. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Get Information now about Microsoft Small Business Financials". Archived from the original on 2005-11-02.
  2. 1 2 "Microsoft Small Business Financials - Small Business Manager Top Questions". Archived from the original on 2008-09-28.
  3. ↑ Microsoft Small Business Solutions System Requirements
  4. ↑ Microsoft Small Business Financials 9.0 System Requirements Archived 2006-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ Microsoft Small Business Financials overview
  6. ↑ "Microsoft Dynamics GP Support Blog".
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