Accounting Software for Your Small Business

For over thirty years now, Sage has been providing businesses both small and large with financial systems tailored to that company's needs. With the flexibility that Sage financial software solutions offers, it allows its users to not only run their company more efficiently, but in an extremely cost-effective manner as well.

Its core market lies in the UK, mainland Europe and North America/Canada, and its name is now synonymous with helping small to medium businesses realize their full potential. It does this by making software that is both easy to use, and exactly what the user requires. Backing this up is the recommendation of over 40,000 accountants who use the Sage financial software solutions package day in, day out. No matter what you need, or what size of business you're in, Sage should have something for you:

• Sage 50 Accounts. Previously known as Sage Line 50, this UK-centric software allows you much more than simply being able to run your company accounts. Add in features such as a Vat Ledger, that lets you generate and reconcile your taxes; online banking facilities, an absolute given in today's market; and accept credit card payments over the telephone, making your business all the more approachable to your customers.

• Peachtree Premium Accounting. Designed more specifically for the North American market, this program from Sage offers both financial and software solutions with that particular market in mind. As well as the usual features users of Sage's financial software have come to expect, it also allows advanced features such as company consolidation; archived data facilities; individual reports for separate departments; and a financial manager option that shows you how well or poorly your clients are performing, to help you as a company budget.

• Simply Accounting. This is aimed at the Canadian market, and as such has features that this unique financial area can benefit more from, as opposed to simply using a modified American system. Compatible with the new Windows Vista operating system, this can help the smallest, one-man business keep track of all his incoming and outgoing, as well as run less modest companies' complete accounting department.

With each one of these financial software solutions, Sage also has dedicated software for France via their Ciel brand, and South Africa via its Softline Pastel brand. Combine that with the fact that there is a different product in each range dependent on the size of the business in question, and it's easy to see why Sage financial software continues to offer solutions for companies worldwide.