Financial Reporting Tools for CPAS Presented by Geni Whitehouse, CPA, CITP October 18, 2002 Accounting Institute, Athens, GA

Course Outline and links to products demonstrated:

1. Virtual Magnifying Glass  http://magnifier.sourceforge.net 
2. Preparing Financial Statements 

Accounting software products demonstrated :

• Quickbooks
• MAS 200
• Navision 
• BusinessVision 32 
• Oracle Small Business Suite

Other products:

• Excel-Add–ins
• F9
• Jet Reports
• Excel Native Features  - stock updates
• CaseWare/Idea
•  Prosystem Fx
• FRx 
• XBRL - learn more at www.xbrl.org see demo at http://www.xbrl-ie.org/public/demo.htm
• Crystal Reports
• High End Solutions
  • Cognos
  • Hyperion

Business Alerts:

• Peachtree
• ACCPAC ProSeries
• List of products containing Business Alerts, from The Accounting Library

3. Supporting the Numbers

• Navision
• ACCPAC Pro Series - thermometer view
• MAS 200
• Peachtree

4. Acting on the Information

• Axapta - OLAP Cubes
• TakeStock - Customer and Item Sales Analysis
• ACCPAC CFO