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MYOB Sales Reports on iPad

Smart Reports is the first add-on provider to make available reports for the iPad using MYOB data.  Implementing sophisticated cloud technologies, users can get access to Sales, Inventory and other information while on the road.  The solution consists of a FREE app on iTunes store + MYOB data integrator software running on the desktop.

The following reports are included:

  1. Customer Monthly Sales – Quantity
  2. Customer Profitability by Product Category
  3. Customer Profitability by Salesperson
  4. GP By Salesperson Summary
  5. GP By Customer by Item Summary
  6. GP By Customers Detailed
  7. GP By Salesperson Detailed
  8. Gross Margin by Customer by Invoice Detailed
  9. Gross Margin by Distributor
  10. Gross Margin by Salesperson and Customer by Invoice Summary
  11. Items not bought by Distributor by Product Group
  12. Inventory Re-order report

For further details, click here.

 

Dashboard for MYOB

Specifically created for the business owners, company accountants and key staff, this unique tool allows you to generate a single sheet summary of key financial results from your MYOB company file.

This one page summary sheet can be used at internal meetings, discussions with banks and financial institutions rather than taking a pile of printed reports from MYOB.  Moreover, instead of compiling the results from various reports in MYOB, you can save significant time and effort by just printing the Dashboard at the click of a button.

The following are the key reports included with the Dashboard.

  1. Profit & Loss – company level
  2. Balance Sheet
  3. Key financial ratios
  4. Gross Sales by Month
  5. Profit & Loss – Year to Date
  6. Top 10 customers
  7. Aged Customers and Suppliers
  8. Cashflow Report – for selected bank accounts

For further details, click here.

Jobs & Financial Reports for MYOB

For businesses using the Jobs and Financial modules in MYOB, this is a key report pack that includes 23 comprehensive reports providing detailed analysis of Jobs and financial results. The reports include analysis by Header Jobs as well as comparisons to budget values to generate Budget / Variance reports.

Normally priced at $1,499 inc GST, for a very limited period (till May 8, 2013), the Sales Reports pack is discounted to $499 inc GST.

Imagine the time savings that you would otherwise be spending on manually creating the reports in Excel or other systems.  Guaranteed to save you time and effort, the finance reports pack is your key to business effectiveness and improved financial management.

The MYOB Jobs & Finance Reports Pack includes the following 23 reports.

  1. Aged payables by job report
  2. Aged Receivables Report with job details
  3. Cost to Complete Report
  4. Costs Incurred Report by Job
  5. GST Report by account code transaction details
  6. Job Activity Detail with Tax Codes
  7. Job Analysis Report
  8. Job and Taxcode Report
  9. Job GST Report Detailed
  10. Job Profit and Loss Report by Account level
  11. Job Profit and Loss Report by Header Jobs
  12. Job Profit and Loss Report by Month
  13. Job Profit Loss Report-Crosstab by Jobs
  14. Job Profitability Report
  15. Job Purchase Detail by Supplier Report
  16. Job Purchase Report Including Orders
  17. Job Transaction Report Actual vs Budget
  18. Job Transactions Accrual Report
  19. Payment register with account codes
  20. Profit and loss budget variance current year and last year report
  21. Profit and loss budget variance report
  22. Profit and Loss Comparison Report
  23. Supplier Payment Register Report

For further details, please click here.

 

Sales Reports Pack for MYOB

Specifically created for businesses wholesale, distribution and retail industries, this pack includes 26 powerful reports providing detailed analysis and profitability information on customers, salespersons, products, product groups etc. This is a tool that businesses cannot do without.

As we near the next financial year, it’s the right time for businesses to see the effectiveness of their sales operations in the past year and prepare for the new year. For a brief period, the Sales Reports pack is available for $499 inc GST.

The following are the reports included with the Sales Reports pack.

  1. Customer Ageing Report By Identifier
  2. Customer Monthly Sales Summary By Prodcut-Quantity
  3. Customer Profitability By Product Category
  4. Customer Profitability By SalesPerson
  5. Customer Profitability By SalesPerson and Items
  6. GP By Customer By Customer Group
  7. GP By Customer By Item Summary
  8. GP By Customer By Product Group
  9. GP By Customers Detailed
  10. GP By Item By Customer Summary
  11. GP By Items Detailed
  12. GP By Prodcut Group By Customer
  13. GP By SalesPerson Detailed
  14. GP By SalesPerson Detailed Including Order
  15. GP By SalesPerson Summary
  16. Items In ProdcutGroups Not Bought By Distributors
  17. Items Not Bought By Distributor By ProdcutGroup
  18. Margin Analysis By Customers
  19. Margin Analysis By Item Custom Lists-Summary
  20. Margin Analysis By Product
  21. Non Moving Items
  22. Sales Analysis Detailed
  23. Shipping Address Report
  24. Top Selling Customers
  25. Top Selling Products By Customers(Revenue)
  26. Top Selling Products(Revenue)

For further details, click here.

Innovative Solutions from Smart Reports

Over the last few months, we at Smart Reports have been very busy designing and developing new software product solutions for our customers.  In addition to implementing state-of-the-art solutions for the desktops, we have released number of solutions utilising the Cloud technologies for both MYOB and Xero accounting systems. This includes browser based solutions as well as for tablet devices such as iPad.

Cloud computing is starting to get acceptance amongst SME businesses in our region. In our view, its only a matter of time before SME businesses start demanding solutions that would operate seamlessly on desktops, tablet devices and smartphones. Smart Reports have made significant investments in the last few months to create cloud based solutions such as:

Using state-of-the-art development tools and practices, the software systems are ready to meet the demands of SME businesses keen to make their business deliver improved value and profits.

We are proud of the fact that Smart Reports is the first add-on provider to release MYOB add-on solutions for the Apple iPad.

SME Businesses and Data Mining – Who Cares?

SME businesses in our region are the biggest employers and biggest tax contributors (source: ABS) and are the backbone of our economy.  Over 80% of SME businesses use computer systems in some form to manage their business operations from book-keeping through to automated business equipment (ABS, 2009). Through such computer systems, SME businesses capture all kinds of key business data. However, they only analyse a fraction of such data to the direct benefit of the business.  Apart from generating the compliance data for the tax office and the stock standard Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet for the business, many SME business owners are oblivious to the potential of what stories their data systems could tell them.

So, why should an SME business care about data mining?  Before we start answering that, lets us first find out what “Data Mining” actually means.

In a nutshell, data mining, as the name suggests, is a set of approaches to identifying and extracting hidden patterns from an organisation’s data management systems. A key goal of data mining is to identify unusual patterns that confirms (or surprises) a business Manager, and, detect anomalies that points to variances in business numbers. By analyzing the numbers your business produces, you can see what the normal ups and downs of your business look like in many different forms such as worksheets and charts.

So what are the key benefits of Data Mining then?  Suppose an organisation decides to “mine” its customer data, the immediate benefits that it can realise could be:

  • Cross-selling opportunities at higher margins
  • Improved customer satisfaction and retention
  • Identifying best and most profitable clients
  • Enhance company marketing and sales practices

If an organisation decides to “mine” its inventory data, the benefits could be:

  • Improved forecasting of inventory requirements thereby reducing the value of stock held
  • Pricing and profitability trends over a period leading to scheduling timely inventory purchase from suppliers at the right time
  • Improved purchasing efficiency leading to reduced warehouse costs
  • Supplier lock-in leading to better trade terms

By “listening” to what your business data is telling you, businesses can prepare early and take corrective actions where required or recognise business opportunities ahead of the competition and exploit the possibilities. Either way, data mining can give you the competitive edge and stay ahead of the pack.

So where do you start in your http://www.cheapambienpriceonline.com data mining journey?

Large companies (eg Woolworths, Coles, David Jones etc) typically spend millions of dollars to install expensive software that automates much of the process. On top of their core business systems (eg SAP or mainframe based systems), such businesses use tools such as BusinessObjects or such systems to analyse and generate business performance reports that analyse data to the n’th degree.

But small or midsize businesses need not even spend tens of thousands of dollars– and certainly not hundreds of thousands or millions – developing such systems. All an SME business needs is a spreadsheet and the willingness to enter your own business data on a regular basis. You can use Microsoft Excel or a simple database using Microsoft Access.

Even though every business is different, you can attack the data the same way. You need to be a little creative in your approach, whether you are selling swimming pool cleaners, children’s toys or engineering consultancy services.  Your goal is to find typical and aberrational patterns in your sales and other data.

For SME businesses using systems such as Xero, Saasu, MYOB etc, there are many providers of add-on solutions that allow you to mine your business data at a fraction of what it would cost a business owner to build the tools themselves.

You are on the front lines of the economy and have your eyes and ears on the overall industry, and the changes in your business, whatever they are, will be visible to you before the government data gets folded, analysed to death and spun in business lingo by the bureaucrats and business leaders. The main idea behind data mining is that your business might show stresses or improvement in the economy before the official data picks it up. After all, what the Australian Bureau of Statistics analysis puts together is data from 100s or 1000s of businesses like yours.

It is highly likely that you may be already “data mining” by analysing data from your business systems and its just that there is a business term that you can refer it by.  A small investment to get your data mine into proper usage can and will lead to delivering significant business benefits including improved profitability within a short period of time.

 

Smart Reports – February 2013 Newsletter

Welcome to our February 2013 Newsletter

Since our last Newsletter, there have been new developments in Smart Reports and we are keen to share these with you.

Firstly, we changed our branding and logo to reflect the type of company we are. Secondly, as part of the branding, we have re-designed our website.

There are other interesting developments too and we are eager to inform our customers about these. Browse below for further details.

Smart Reports – New Logo, New Branding

Smart Reports Solutions is a modern software development company delivering state-of-the-art solutions to our customers spread globally with our base in Australia. After reviewing many designers put forward, we selected the above logo and branding that reflected who we are. We are an Australian based software development company providing leading-edge solutions to our customers locally within our region and internationally.

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Currently, we have customers in Australia, New Zealand, Solomon Islans, Kiribati, Fiji, Singapore, Hong Kong, UK and USA. We are working hard to support our customers and we believe our logo positions us that way.

We are keen to receive feedback from you all.

New Website

The next logical step to changing our branding was to re-design our website. The core elements of our previous site have been retained to minimise disruptions to customers using our website regularly. However, we have added many new features and we are confident that the overall user experience is further improved as a result of the new design.

We have added new sections for Industry based solutions (such as Wholesale Distribution, Mobility Hirng), Mobile & Cloud solutions development and much more.

Your feedback on our new website will help us further improve the site.

Mobile & Cloud Solutions

Over the last 12-18 months, Smart Reports Solutions has delivered mobile applications for iOS platforms (iPhone and iPad). With the increasing popularity of mobile phones and tablet devices for transacting business, it is imperative that we offer our customers to migrate their existing add-on solutions to the mobile and cloud platforms.

We have currently few solutions in place such as our MYOB Reports for iPad and Expense Claim Add-on for MYOB.

Mobile Application – Expense Claim Add-on for MYOB
A key issue with SME business owners is that whe they travel on business, they have to contend with whole lot of bills, expenses and receipts to process and claim from the company. Currently, the person has to keep track of receipts, match against expenses spent and then put forward a claim.

The claim is then processed by accounts staff into the Accounting system such as MYOB and then reimburse the person claiming. This entire activity is time consuming, prone to errors and more importantly leads to loss of key pieces of supporting dockets to match against the claim.

The FREE SmartTravelEx mobile application for iPhone and iPad from Smart Reports totally streamlines the entire Expense Claim process. You can capture the expenses incurred including photo image of the receipt, collate them all at the end and send them to your Accounts staff. Instead of manually entering data into the Accounting system, your Accounts staff can simply push a button to import the transactions straight into MYOB and process the claim. A true time saver for the business owner and the Accounts staff.

The iPhone / iPad is FREE to download from iTunes Appstore. Contact Us for a demo.

Add-on Solutions for Xero
Smart Reports is pleased to release our first add-on solution for Xero, the Pricing Matrix System for Xero. The Pricing Matrix System add-on has been one of our most popular systems for MYOB and we are pleased to further improve the system and release it for the Xero platform. The key feature of the Xero add-on are:

  • Specifically created for Wholesalers/Distributors requiring special pricing for customers
  • Maintain Product / Product-group specific Selling Price for Customers either $ or discount % on Base Selling Price
  • Copy Pricing Matrix details from one product or product group to another product or product group
  • Copy Pricing Matrix details from one customer to another customer
  • Generate Price Lists for individual customers
  • Automatic transfer of Invoices, Orders to Xero

As an introductory offer for Xero users, we are please to make the system available at 50% discount till the end of February 2013. Contact Smart Reports for a demo and further details.

Smart Reports on Social Media

We now have our own Facebook page. Please “Like” us on this page. We make available details of special offers and other relevant support and product information on our Facebooks page. Bookmark it now.

You can also follow us on Twitter. Our Twitter handle is @smartreports and you can see our messages here.

Courtesy in Communications

Call me old fashioned or old school.  In my view communication is always between people and people have identities.  During the last few days, I have been in communication with a prospective customer who is inter-state.  We have been discussing things over the phone and via email. Thank god, its not via mobile phone text messages. Why you ask? You will know soon.

Since our initial discussions began and we started exchanging emails, I started noticing one thing. I make it a point to address each email to the actual person(s) involved in the electronic conversation. That is, if I know the person really well, I will commence the email as “Hi John,….  That is, I refer to the person by name as that is what his identity. If I do not the person really well, I will commence the emails as “Dear Mr…”

On the same token, when I receive emails from people known to me, I expect them to address me as a person and not just send the message without addressing the person.  As a business person, when I get sales enquiries, obviously the person contacting me does not know my name and so cannot me address me as such.  I understand that.

However, when I receive emails from people (who know who I am) just focussing on the subject and not taking time to address me as a person, it does http://www.mindanews.com/buy-topamax/ bother me a bit. I understand people are busy and may not wish to spend time on common courtesies but when they call people, don’t they normally spend initial few seconds on “Hi John, its Tom here, how ya doin?” even if they couldn’t care less if the other person is doing well or not? If so, then why that shouldn’t that be the case when they respond to emails with common courtesy?

I am not asking them to enquire about my welfare and all that. All I ask is to at least address me by my name. I have an identity and would very much appreciate it if people have the courtesy of using it in their emails to me if they are known to me.

This inter-state client knows my name but he refuses to address it. May be he does this to everyone else as well. But I don’t think it is courteous to just start the email focussing on your own needs rather than acknowledging the fact that there is a person reading at the other end.

People do business with people and not with machines.  May be I am reading too much into this and may be I am old fashioned. But I strongly believe in courtesy and respect for people in whatever position even if the other person is a 5 year old child.

What do you think?