Amazon.com Product Description

Clear job descriptions help employees work smarter and become more effective in their jobs. As an employer, well-written job descriptions help you hire the right people and make fair employment decisions you can defend in court. With Descriptions Now, it's easy to go from blank page to finished job description in minutes. Just choose from more than 3500 built-in jobs, edit, or even combine duties from different jobs. Then answer some questions about physical and educational requirements, work environment, qualifications, and supervisory responsibilities. Using KnowledgePoint's exclusive Intelli-Text technology, Descriptions Now takes your answers and writes a comprehensive job description that's customized to your organization.It's also easy to get all the managers in your organization writing effective job descriptions because Descriptions Now is network-ready. It only takes a phone call to access network functions and add users. What's more, Descriptions Now is designed to work together with Performance Now, KNowledgePoint's award-winning performance-review software. Descriptions Now job descriptions can be easily accessed while you write your performance reviews. ... Read more

Reviews (2)

A good tool for job descriptions
I was reasonably impressed with the software package. It has nearly 6000 job descriptions on file from which to choose. I am impressed by the diversity of the job decriptions available and how well they address the particular jobs that I am familiar with. The descriptions are general enough to fit most positions where they would be used, but can be modified as needed to taylor them. The software allows specifics like education, language, and mathematics requirements to be specified if needed and addresses the physical demands and work environments associated with each job. Overall, this is a reasonably concise package that provides a good platform for the creation of job descriptions.

Save Your Money!
This software was very disappointing. The editing features are extremely limited and what templates? You could get the same or better results by "cut & paste" from job search websites to MS Word. I would not recommend this overpriced program. ... Read more

Amazon.com Product Description

DayLite is a full-featured customer, accounts, sales, and campaign manager. Fully customizable and networked with multi-user support, it gives Mac-based small businesses a solution to help manage, grow, and retain customers. With strong importing features, including a full ACT! importer, DayLite is also a critical tool for PC users looking to make a seamless switch to the Mac, and for Mac OS 9 users looking to make a seamless switch to Mac OS X.

Import contacts, groups, notes or memos, opportunities, organizations, tasks, or appointments in delimited format. Data can be exported in tab delimited format. Export contacts as vCards, to the iPod, or synchronize with Apple's Address Book. DayLite is fully networked so you can connect to it locally, through the network, or over the Internet. Even create offline databases that can be modified on the road and synchronized with the main database.

Additional features include an auto dialer and call log, automatic follow-up mechanism, and letter template editor. Delegate, assign, filter, sort, and print labels. View record summaries, pipelines, revenue forecasting and win and loss charts. Schedule appointments, create to-do's, print reports, and send emails. ... Read more

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I can't understand it
I bought Daylite to replace my ACT! contact manager when I switched from PC to Mac. It doesn't come with a printed manual, althought they will sell you one for an additional $37 online if you agree to let them use your contact information for marketing purposes. If you don't agree (who would?) you can't buy the manual!

ACT! makes sense to me. It's simple to use and effective. Although I'm now committted to using Daylite, it is really confusing. It seems like it is trying to reinvent contact software, but I don't want to reinvent anything, I just want to get to work. ... Read more

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Raising Venture Capital Made E-Z clears up the mystery of how to fund your business. Author Harold Lacy knows where to find money for any business venture, sharing what you need to know about "angels," bankers, venture capitalists, and nontraditional sources and how to get them to commit funds. Learn the secret of matching entrepreneurial needs to those of the investor--a road map "to get the money." ... Read more

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Great Content !
How helful this proved to be for my internet business! I am already having the door practically beat down by "angels" and banks ! Awesome ! ... Read more

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My BusinessPlan Starter is designed to aid your business, from conception to actualization. Take the guesswork out of what to include in your business plan. Follow MyBusinessPlan Starter's format to create organized, easy-to-understand information. Turn your information into polished material with the preformatted tables and graphs. You can create a starter plan that covers critical topics, such as company objectives, market analysis, and keys to success. ... Read more

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Lonewolf Timeclock Software
For the price (even if it cost more) this is a great program for any size business. Every employee creates a user name & password and clocks in and out also can punch in/out for lunch. If an employee forgets to punch out it will flag excessive hours for the management to review and adjust hours accordingly. The best part of this program is the total hourly printouts down to the nearest mintue. Employees cannot argue about how much they worked because the computers keeps track of the time worked so there's never an arguement. At the end of the year you can purge all the information and start over again for the next year. ... Read more

Features

• Exercise files are included, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
• Author: David Rivers
• Running Time: 5 Hours 45 Mins.
• ISBN: 1930727852
• Movie-based tutorial designed to help new and existing PowerPoint users get a basic to intermediate understanding of this latest version of Microsoft Office PowerPoint

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TimeWolf is divided into the employee module and the manager module. The employee module makes it easy for employees to record work time and verify the information using a password or voiceprint. The manager module is used to access and edit collected work time data, print reports, and set up the system for use.

TimeWolf allows flexibility for intricate company configuration while maintaining simplicity for those businesses with less complex needs. You can set up separate policies for different groups of employees and in a variety of ways: Calculate overtime by week, day, or both. Approve overtime automatically, or require a manager to approve it manually. Accrue vacation time, sick days, and other accrued time based on actual worked hours, or use other methods. Automatically insert specified paid holidays. Add an unlimited number of departments. Switch employees among departments as job duties change. Add an unlimited number of employees. "Enroll" employees through a two-minute process where a "voiceprint" is recorded. Set security access to all, part, or none of the programs features. Assign a default policy. Change, insert, or delete employees' time card activities. View and edit accrued time. Have a choice in how work time is rounded.

TimeWolf has a simple-to-use scheduling interface that allows you to quickly enter employee schedules. This gives TimeWolf the ability to compare actual worked time and identify those employees who are late, early, or on time, or who have punches that are missed or unscheduled. TimeWolf also provides a means to "self-correct" a missed punch if an employee forgets to clock in or out.

TimeWolf can generate numerous reports and graphs: Find out total hours by department or employee, which employees work a specified amount of time, where employees are working, or which employees unsuccessfully attempted to log on.

Export data to popular accounting packages and payroll services including PeachTree QuickBooks Pro, Sage Business Works, Doeren Mayhew, Great Plains, ACCPAC for Windows, Easy Pay, Pro Tyme, Paychex, ADP for Windows. A variety of customized interfaces also is available.

An automatic backup creates a copy of all primary data files at scheduled intervals. ... Read more

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Maybe not for first timers
This program offers a variety of resumes! Choose what field you are interested in and click on that resume. All you have to do is edit their copy and make it your own. The resumes are very(!) professional. As a first time resume writer, I wanted more advice, tips and ideas (i.e. what kind of paper to use, who to send resumes to- Human Resources, Personnel?). If you have done this whole process before, then I think this is the program for you! It has different formats to really make your resume stand out! ... Read more

Features

• Comprehensive and easy to use software to assist property managers with the day to day needs of managing one or more properties. Extensive reporting.
• Fully integrated financials include Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable/General Ledger.
• Property Management features include tracking rents and other fees, deposits, occupants, vehicles, demographics, and much more.
• Applicant Tracking includes ability to track all applicants and match them with unit inventory, advertising sources, selling agent, credit checking to limit liabilities.
• Work Order includes ability to track reported problems, assign repair crews, track costs, and more.

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A High schooler's review
As a high school student, I personally found this product very helpful. The templates were fairly easy to work with and ran affectively on my school (1995) computer. The templates were relatively self-explainatory and easy to work with.

Like your previous critique, I was surprised that the product was only templates organized within a web like interface. I really expected more.

Not What I Thought
The packaging to this product positions it against Business Plan Pro. I thought I would get a similar solution and was looking for a cheaper business planning tool, based on the advertising. The bottom line is that the product is 40.00 worth of templates, most of which you can find similarly at Microsoft's Template page. The templates in BPD are very remedial and shoddy looking. If I could get my money back, I would - I felt ripped off.

For the same price, buy Business Plan Maker (a competitor to Business Plan Pro). A much better (true business planning software) product. ... Read more

Features

• Tax software for corporations and partnerships guides users through IRS returns
• Interview-based wizard system
• Up-to-date with latest federal tax law
• Checks math and audit flags
• Helps with deductions, depreciations and employee taxes

Reviews (6)

Worth it!
The $100 investment in worth it! We've had to pay our tax preparer over $800 to calculate our taxes this year. We keep good records and decided to find out how close we would come to his calculations by doing it ourselves with Turbotax Business. Let's just say that next year we'll be doing our taxes ourselves.

A sink hole of time and worse than useless
This program proposes to assist you with filing corporate (including "S" corp) taxes.

It deserves a rating of minus 10 stars.

It is hardly more than a fill-in-the-blank set of continuous forms. It assumes you are fully familiar with the entire multi-thousand page Federal Tax Code and offers no real on-screen assistance. In a word, it is a (...) waste of time, a vast black hole of time wasteage.

Besides, it demands a fearfully long registration process just to refuse the incredibly stupid junk e-mail that Intuit will smother you in if you do not turn off its relentless marketing junk.

For all of this, you should pay $100? Not next year.

streets ahead of the competition
This year I had the unenviable experience of buying both sets of software: Tax Cut Home & Business, which failed me utterly; and TurboTax Business, which worked just fine.

Tax Cut worked fine for my 1040, and with some difficulties it also worked for a 1041 trust return. But it simply could not file a corporate tax return, 1120-A. The software was buggy, it wouldn't print a sample return, and a week before the deadline it still hadn't updated the forms. Worst of all, an attempt to update had corrupted the file. (See the agonized comments on the Tax Cut Home & Business page.)

So I ordered TurboTax Business and paid for express delivery. It worked just fine, though of course I had to enter everything anew because the Tax Cut file was corrupted.

In the future, I will stick with TurboTax Business, and add a cheapo version of the personal tax software, which is available and cheapest. (I prefer to deal directly with the forms, without interference from an "interview.") But I will never again try to save a buck with Tax Cut Home & Business.

What's all the fuss???
I am not a CPA, nor am I a tax expert. However, I simply read the instructions, followed the recommendations, referred to my prior year 1120S for some minor guidance, and all seems to have gone just fine. The tax return went in the mail yesterday!

Maybe I'm blessed with a simple business model or lack some of the complications and complexities compared to the other reviewers but I really cannot complain about this product. I have had frustrating experiences with Intuit in the past but not this time.

My final comment is this: if the $100 I spent on this software helps me to permanently avoid the annual $2,000 payment to my CPA for tax preparation, then I'll gladly buy Turbo Tax Business year after year. The $1,900 difference will go to a Hawaiian vacation! Mahalo, Intuit!

Your killing me!
In my opinion, I'm sorry to say, TurboTax Business is about as useless as you can get. During the last three years I've used it and the same deficiencies continue with more being added "every day".

The most disturbing deficiency is when errors are found during the review. First of all these errors are simple reconciliations of two lines in the return. The software performs the math and numbers are entered through worksheets. However, when the review finds a reconciliation error, all the software says is something like "line 6 on form x is not equal to line 9 on form y". When you search for help, all it says is "line 6 on form x must equal to line 9 on form y", and that's all. To resolve the problem I've had to read the appropriate pubs, instructions, and forms myself.

Also, the itemization of the deduction isn't much better than paper and pencil. To use the software you need to know more than the software.

Great, thanks for nothing! ... Read more