CFO. Comprehensive Financial Optimizer

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2 ACCPAC CFO Make Informed Financial Decisions Before You Act! ACCPAC CFO is a powerful financial diagnostic tool that takes the guesswork out of your business planning process. Using sophisticated goal seeking and what-if style business analysis, CFO helps you identify the impact of every business decision in advance! Designed for small to medium size enterprises, ACCPAC CFO delivers enterprise-strength financial diagnostics at an entry-level price. With CFO, you can thoroughly analyze your choices, make informed decisions based on probable outcomes, model the results of every decision, and move ahead with the assurance that you are going in the right direction. Transform your financial statements into a one-page scorecard ACCPAC CFO enables you to assess your business performance from one easy-to-read screen. This unique one-page scorecard instantly reveals the health of your business. With CFO, you can quickly evaluate and communicate your company s financial position and strategic goals, detect hidden problems and make informed business decisions. ACCPAC CFO empowers you to: Understand the financial implications of specific business decisions. Identify the most effective use of your financial resources. Measure the profitability of every business goal. Count on ACCPAC CFO when you need answers to complex business questions like these: What are the best-case and worst-case results of launching a new product line or service this year? What will be the overall impact of a price increase, if it reduces sales volume? Would reducing prices in order to increase volume be the best strategy? How can we significantly improve cash flow over the next twelve months? The unique features of ACCPAC CFO include: What-if analysis For example: How would cash flow change if you reduced your outstanding accounts receivable average from 70 to 60 days? Goal seeking on results For example: What strategies can you employ to improve your cash flow from ($325,000) to break-even? Variance reporting Easy-to-read graphical screens display the relationship between the Profit and Loss Statement and your Balance Sheet. Graphical presentations CFO graphically presents each of your key performance measures allowing instant evaluation of multiple strategies. ACCPAC CFO is easy to use and allows decision makers to quickly see the results of any scenario on the balance sheet, Comprehensive reports CFO prepares a full range of useful reports from your financial data. income statement and statement of cash flows. It truly provides value and eliminates many of the risks associated with the use of a traditional spreadsheet. L. Gary Boomer, CPA, CITP CEO, Boomer Consulting, Inc.

Understand Your Choices A Foundation for Strategic Planning ACCPAC CFO provides a framework for in-depth quantitative analysis that can be used to make targeted business decisions.

ACCPAC CFO enables in-depth analysis and goal seeking by immediately generating the following metrics: Gross Margin Profitability Net Profit/Sales Working Capital Current Ratio Total Liability/Equity

Goals ACCPAC CFO graphically presents key performance measures, allowing instant evaluation of multiple strategies the ultimate training for non-financial managers.

3 Understand Your Choices A Foundation for Strategic Planning ACCPAC CFO provides a framework for in-depth quantitative analysis that can be used to make targeted business decisions. The goal-seek capability helps you achieve your strategic business goals by identifying the most sensitive financial variables and displaying them in priority order. ACCPAC CFO enables in-depth analysis and goal seeking by immediately generating the following metrics: Gross Margin Profitability Net Profit/Sales Working Capital Current Ratio Total Liability/Equity Equity/Total Assets Balance Sheet Performance Cash Flow Borrowed Funds Cash after Operations Debt-to-equity Ratio Return on Capital Employed Business Valuation Improve Communication of Your Strategic Goals ACCPAC CFO graphically presents key performance measures, allowing instant evaluation of multiple strategies the ultimate training for non-financial managers. The easy-to-read screens highlight each performance area and identify improvement opportunities. CFO allows you to make multiple changes to your performance measures and instantly see the cumulative effect on your business. ACCPAC CFO is a valuable tool for demonstrating the effect small improvements can have on overall business success. With a single click of the mouse, you can instantly review the results of changes to your financial variables. This flexibility lets you fine-tune your business planning based on the potential impact of every decision. CFO provides graphical representations of key performance indicators that are easy to understand and fully interactive. Convert your clients balance sheets and income statements into meaningful one-page financial scorecards.

Maximize Your Strengths Detailed analysis at your fingertips ACCPAC CFO provides a wide range of onscreen analysis reports that give you an in-depth look at the performance of your business.

also delivers an integrated family of powerful analysis and budgeting tools.

4 Maximize Your Strengths Detailed analysis at your fingertips ACCPAC CFO provides a wide range of onscreen analysis reports that give you an in-depth look at the performance of your business. Essential onscreen reports include: Variance between current and prior periods Sustainable growth cycle Cash Report Profit-to-cash Report Marginal Report Cash Wastage In-depth Comparison ACCPAC CFO also delivers an integrated family of powerful analysis and budgeting tools. The optional ACCPAC KPI (Key Performance Indicators) module enables detailed comparisons between financial models, the addition of user-specific variables and benchmarking of results with data from prior years or similar organizations. With KPI, you can develop in-depth company-to-company and division-to-division comparisons allowing you to thoroughly analyze the business performance of your entire organization. You can extract and consolidate the information needed to create benchmark data sets in minutes. Flexible Data Integration ACCPAC CFO is designed to seamlessly integrate with your ACCPAC Advantage Series or ACCPAC Pro Series General Ledger. Alternatively, CFO can be used as a completely standalone application, allowing you to manually enter your summarized Income Statement and Balance Sheet data. You also have the option to import data directly into CFO from Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and leading write-up packages. Integrated Budgeting With the Roll Forward feature, you can prepare a budget or forecast in just two keystrokes. From the one-page scorecard screen, you can review target goals for your income statement and balance sheet. Once you have decided on your high-level goals, one more keystroke lets you roll those changes forward into next year s financials. It s really that easy! KPI presents detailed comparisons between different sets of financial information. CFO provides a wide range of reports that are easy to create.

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5 ACCPAC Your Foundation for End-to-End Business Management Applications ACCPAC advanced accounting systems are the heart of our end-to-end business management applications and your business success. With an ACCPAC accounting system as the engine that powers your business, you get integrated solutions, flexible deployment options, advanced customization features and investment protection. ACCPAC end-to-end business management applications are specifically designed to effectively extend your business to the Web. Integrating powerful front-office e-business capabilities with back-office accounting and fulfillment, ACCPAC provides companies with the solutions they need to extend their businesses to the Internet quickly and affordably. From establishing a Web store, to processing orders with warehouse fulfillment or providing employees, customers and partners with real-time Web access to critical information, you can tap the full power of e-business with ACCPAC when and where you choose. When it comes to ACCPAC products, there s no wrong choice. All ACCPAC solutions are designed to meet your most important purchasing criteria: ease of use, convenience and cost. Regardless of whether you run a small office or a large enterprise, ACCPAC offers a range of end-to-end business management applications that deliver superior performance and comprehensive investment protection. ACCPAC investment protection allows you to upgrade as your business requirements evolve with preferred pricing, powerful data conversion tools and minimal re-training saving you time and money. ACCPAC offers end-to-end business management applications in the following areas: Accounting and Operations Customer Relationship Management Manufacturing E-commerce Internet-based EDI Warehouse Management Human Resource Management Hosted Application Services ACCPAC End-to-End Business Management Applications Requirements ACCPAC Solutions ACCPAC empowers mid-market enterprises with a complete suite of end-to-end business management applications. Visit ACCPAC at or for more information about ACCPAC end-to-end business management applications.

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