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New for 2009

More Security

To meet PCI Data Security Standard requirements, only the last 4 digits of a credit card are displayed in Premier Accounting. Plus, you can restrict access by user to contact card sections relating to both customers’ and employees’ sensitive information. Screenshot.

More security

Improved User Access Settings

Choose who can view information located within employee cards. Set up User ID’s and then restrict them from accessing Employee Profiles, Payment Details, Payroll Details or all Employee Cards.

More flexible invoice statements

Produce more streamlined statements at any time by only including transactions up to the actual statement date. Choose your statement date and your customers will see their open invoices, payments made and credits applied up to the statement date.

Improved filter settings on custom reports

Create a report with the filters you desire, save it as a custom report, and then enjoy one-click access to that report at a later date, filters intact. Simply select your report, input your date or range of dates, and the report will be displayed with your selected settings. Screenshot.

Improved filter settings

Enhanced search
Enhanced search
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Enhanced search

New filters will help to further define your searches. When searching your cards, activities, items or locations lists, you can now search by field; including first name, last name/company name, phone number, email and more. Only the results that match your search will be displayed. Screenshot.

Safeguard your bank reconciliations

Restrict which users have access to the Undo Bank Reconciliation feature. Further safeguard your business from fraud by restricting access to certain features and windows.

Print Preview Forms

Preview your invoices and other forms before printing. Simply choose Preview from the Print button on a sale, purchase, check, etc., to see how it will look before actually printing. Screenshot.

Print preview

Prior Year Reporting of Payroll Info

No one likes having to dig for old data. Premier Accounting now lets you store payroll information from prior years so that you don't have to restore from a backup.

Enhanced Transaction Editing

The ability to more easily edit vendor or customer payments means fewer steps when fixing a keying error. Bring up a payment that was keyed in error and edit information such as the account, the date, the memo or the check number or ID fields. Screenshot.

Transaction editing

Spell check

In select fields throughout Premier Accounting 2009, use the new spell check feature to detect potentially embarrassing errors. Screenshot.

Spell check

2008 W-2 and W-3 Forms

Premier Accounting 2009 will include the 2008 W-2 and W-3 forms to make filing your year-end tax forms simple.

New Help with improved search

Premier Accounting’s online help has been updated to make searching for information faster and easier. Screenshot.

Help with search

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Getting Started

100 Custom Business Templates

The New Company File Assistant helps you get your company file up and running in minutes. Choose from one of 100 editable business templates to start with a Chart of Accounts that matches your business, or create your own from scratch. Screenshot.

100 templates

Help with Premier Accounting

Learn the basics of accounting with MYOB’s Accounting 101 Guide, and use Premier Accounting’s assistants to help you create your Company File, set up preferences and enter opening balances.

Help menu
Help menu
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So Many Ways to Get Help

The Help menu gives you the choice of going to our website for help or searching the help files included in Premier Accounting. Most windows in Premier Accounting include the Help icon, which displays information related to whatever section of the software you currently inhabit.

Online Manuals

The User Guide and Getting Started Guide are installed and accessible from the Help menu. Of course, you can always seek help from the support section of this website.

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Sales

Quote to Order to Invoice

Premier Accounting’s sales command center covers the entire sales process: prepare a quote for a customer, and then turn it into a work order with one click. One more click turns the order into and invoice, which can be customized and then emailed or printed for delivery. Screenshot.

Quote, Order, Invoice

Creative Forms Designer

Design your own forms with the creative forms designer. Pick the layout that’s right for your business: service, item, professional or time billing. Then choose from a list of form fields and design options to create invoices, statements and other forms that reflect the style and professionalism of your business. Screenshot.

Customize invoice

sales command center
Sales command center
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Email or Print Forms

Create a quote, invoice or statement, and then use the Print/Email Statements or Invoices options to have a physical copy to provide your customer or an electronic copy to send to them, saving both time and postage. Screenshot.

Email or print

Track your Income with 50 Sales Reports

Premier Accounting includes 50 sales-related reports to help you analyze your businesses income. Reports are customizable, can be exported to Excel, HTML, viewed on-screen, emailed, or exported as a text file, and added to your reports menu for quick access. Screenshot.

Sales reports

Job Tracking

Jobs allow the user to keep accurate and detailed records of projects – with jobs you can link to specific customers, track reimbursable expenses, and analyze profit and loss for a job. Screenshot.

Job tracking

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Banking

Bank On Premier Accounting

The banking command center lets your write and record checks, prepare bank deposits, print receipts, and reconcile your accounts. Use it to see all your important banking information at a glance, including your running balance and all transactions within a specified date range.

Print Checks

Easily print a batch of checks or use the Advanced Filters option to find and reprint a check or change payment details. Use customized check forms or purchase preprinted checks from MYOB Checks and Forms that are designed by our forms professionals. Screenshot.

Print checks

Banking command center
Banking command center
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Undo Reconcile Accounts

Already imported and reconciled your online statement, but you made a mistake? Undo reconciliation lets you go back as far as you need to go fix the error. Screenshot.

Undo bank reconciliation

Make Electronic Payments

By signing up for MYOB Business Services, you can pay vendors electronically with MYOB Vendor Payments and make electronic deposits of your employees’ paychecks with MYOB Direct Deposit. Screenshot.

Electronic payments

Import Online Bank Statements

Import your online bank statements into the bank register to reconcile your accounts easily with the Get Statement button. Premier Accounting supports most online statement formats, including OFX, QIF, QFX and OFC. Your transactions will be automatically matched to those already entered.

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Contacts

Contact Management

Track important customer, employee, and vendor information and sync with your Outlook Contacts. Keep contact information, employee details, selling details, jobs, and even add pictures. Screenshot.

Contact card

Contact Cards

Use cards to track information on your customers, employees, vendors, and personal contacts. Cards hold a tremendous amount of information, including a billing address and five ship-to addresses, each with three phone numbers, an email address, web address, and fax number. You can attach a picture to each card, and sync your entire card file with your Outlook Contacts. Screenshot.

Manage contacts

Contact card
Contact card
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Reminder Log

You can create reminders using Premier Accounting’s Reminder Log, and then display them by customer card. Remind yourself to follow up with a customer on a sales call by creating a reminder. Screenshot.

Reminder log

Create Personalized Letters

Form letters are a great way to get your point across, whether it is advertising, collections or just a thank you note. Use the Create Personalized Letters feature to easily send the same letter to one, or many contacts on your list and let Premier Accounting fill in their name, address and other information automatically.

Identifiers and Custom Lists & Fields

Use Identifiers and Customs Lists & Fields to define your customers, employees, vendors and personal contacts and easily sort through them when running reports or creating letters. Identify a group of customers who have been loyal to your company for a long period of time, then send a letter to those customers simply by choosing that identifier when creating the letter. Screenshot.

Identifiers and Custom Lists

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Payroll

Process Payroll Assistant

The Process Payroll Assistant streamlines payroll as it walks you through the payroll process. Set up your payroll with automatic income, deductions, accruals, and expense tracking. You can set your employees pay rates as hourly, salaried, or commission with the Payroll Easy Setup Assistant. Edit paychecks directly from the assistant, then record and process. Deliver pay stubs by email or print them out.

Vacation and Sick Leave Tracking

Set up Premier Accounting to automatically accrue vacation and sick time, and then deduct that time as it’s used to provide your employees with a running total of available time off. Use the Accrual Balance reports to provide a quick overview of time used and time remaining and add notes within the Leave Tracking Information module to further define what the time was used for.

Timesheet
Timesheet
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Enter Timesheets

Premier Accounting’s timesheets look and function like paper timesheets; tracking an employee’s hours worked, vacation and sick leave taken. If you use Time Billing, you can also create activity slips based on timesheet entries. Screenshot.

DIY...

Do it yourself. Premier Accounting’s Payroll command center gives you the tools you need, from timesheets to W-2 forms. Add on support for payroll tax updates, eFile Service, and Payroll Forms Service, and you’re in total control of your payroll. Screenshot.

Payroll

...or Don't

Full Service Payroll is an integrated, online payroll processing service that lets you save time, save money and stay in control. Outsource your payroll to MYOB Full Service Payroll and let someone else do the work.

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Inventory

Manage Your Inventory

Premier Accounting’s powerful Inventory command center allows for total inventory control: multiple pricing levels, kit-building and negative inventory. Receive inventory into multiple locations, whether it’s different shelves in a warehouse or different warehouses altogether. You can even keep a digital photo of each item for easy reference. Screenshot.

Item card

The Items Register

Open the Items Register and get a picture of your inventory: where it came from, where it is, and where it is going. The Items Register lets you check your inventory levels, build items, and adjust inventory. Screenshot.

Item register

The Items List

The Items List gives you total control of your items: add descriptions, locations, and a photo of each item. Screenshot.

Items list

Receiving inventory

When a shipment of inventory arrives, not all of the goods always come in at once. Premier Accounting lets you place an order, receive inventory against the order, track what inventory is still outstanding to be received, and create a bill for the outstanding goods, all while maintaining a connection with the original purchase order.

Inventory
Inventory
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Buying Details

Track buying details for your items like standard cost, last purchase price, and units of measure when purchasing. You can link a primary vendor to each item for reorders, and a minimum level before you want an alert to tell you to restock.

Selling Details

Create selling details, including base selling price, selling units of measure, and 6 pricing levels with 5 quantity breaks each for a total of 30 different selling prices for each of your items.

Count Inventory

Open Count Inventory from the command center to quickly adjust the quantities of your items so they match the actual quantities in stock. If you use locations, you can group your inventory list by item or by location. Screenshot.

Count inventory

Inventory locations

Whether inventory items are organized by bin, on shelves, or in different warehouses, you can find out how many you have and where they are by location. Use the Move Items window to shift your inventory from place to place, and even build reports sorted by location to learn sales, purchase prices, and more. Screenshot.

Item locations

Build Kits

Premier Accounting automates the build process, making it easy to combine multiple items and build them into a finished item with Auto-build. You can set minimum levels so that when an item necessary for building another starts running low, you will be given an alert that you need to replenish that item. Screenshot.

Auto build

Enhanced search of the items list

Premier Accounting comes with an enhanced search that lets you search by a number of fields. For example, choose to search by Item Name and only items that contain the keyword you use will show up, saving you the pain of the old search and scroll technique.

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Time Billing

Track and Bill Your Time

Track and bill your time with the Time Billing command center, using multiple billing rates, tracking chargeable and non-chargeable time, and billing in hours, increments of hours, or units.

Track and Report on Time

Time billing in Premier Accounting is integrated with your Payroll, so you can send all of your employees’ time tracked directly to the Process Payroll Assistant. You can also track all aspects of time captured with 15 Time Billing reports. Premier Accounting includes productivity reports that compare time tracked to time billed and alert you to rate exceptions.

Time Billing
Time Billing
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Enter Timesheets

Employee time tracked with timesheets flows to invoicing, job tracking, and payroll. Using timesheets, you can quickly calculate employee pay, and you can also create activity slips based on timesheet entries. Screenshot.

More Choice For Activity Slip Entry

When creating an activity slip, choose the activity, customer or employee billing rate. Manually enter time onto a slip directly, or make use of the integrated timer. Create slips individually, or create them on a timesheet or eve directly on an invoice. When creating invoices, you can include the standard brief description or the detailed notes from your activity slip. Screenshot.

Activity slip

Flexible setup of activities

Set billing rates on your contact cards, allowing for multiple billing rates: customer, employee, or activity. You can also make activities hourly or non-hourly, and chargeable or non-chargeable, all when creating an activity slip to track time spent on a task.

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Your Company

100 Customized Templates

The New Company File Assistant helps you get your company file up and running in minutes. Choose from one of 100 editable business templates to start with a Chart of Accounts that matches your business, or create your own from scratch. Screenshot.

Over 200 reports

Over 200 financial and management reports give you both summarized and detailed information on the state of your business. You can customize your reports to sort and filter information so you get the answers you are looking for, and save your most-viewed reports as favorites in the report menu. Reports can be sent directly to an Excel spreadsheet, or emailed as a PDF with one click. Screenshot.

200 reports

Your accounts
Your accounts
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Back up to Disk

Backing up your information is a crucial - but often over-looked - part of managing your business. Premier Accounting makes it easy.

Budget for 2 Years

Budgets can be entered from a single window that displays all balance sheet accounts together on a single window and all profit and loss accounts on another. Shortcuts allow for the current year budget to be copied into next years budget so that only minor alterations have to be made, rather than spending time starting on a fresh budget screen. Screenshot.

Profit and loss

Keep Your Information Secure

The Company Data Auditor found in the Accounts command center lets you keep your important financial information in top condition. Use it to learn important information on your company file like size and location, troubleshoot problem areas such as imbalances in your receivables, and review changes made to the company file (and learn who made the changes). Screenshot.

Company data auditor

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Purchases

Manage your accounts payable

Use the Purchases command center to keep track of purchases and payables, automatically calculate taxes and volume discounts, easily enter returns or adjustments on - or apply refunds and payments against – purchase orders. You can pay bills electronically using the ACH system or print out fully customizable checks and then send your vendor a payment notification.

Print 1099 and 1096 Forms

Setup a vendor and choose to report payments to a 1099, and at the end of a year, Premier Accounting automatically calculates the amount(s) to be shown on the 1099 forms and under which categories the amount(s) should fall. Screenshot.

Print 1099s

Purchases
Purchases
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Print/Email Payment Notifications

Use the Print/Email Payment Notifications feature to send your vendors a statement showing that you are sending payment for a purchase order or group of purchase orders. If there is a dispute as to when a payment was sent and for what items or services the payment covers, a payment notification is a quick, easy way to help resolve the issue. Screenshot.

Payment notifications

Make payments to vendors

Use the Open Bills tab of the purchases register to find out which vendors you owe, and then open the Pay Bills window to write checks against your open bills. When you fill in the vendor field, you can choose which bills to pay and exactly how much to pay for a given vendor right in the Pay Bills window. Once you record the check, click Print Checks to choose which checks to print, and then email your vendors payment notifications to let them know their payment is on the way. Screenshot.

Pay vendors


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