| In one of the surveys it was mentioned, most of the | | | | measures-the state of payables, receivables, cash |
| new Small business's fail not because of their | | | | flow and inventory. |
| execution or anything else but because the owner | | | | In the above option you need to send your quickbook |
| never realized where the problem is. To keep track of | | | | data to a third party which may be of little concern for |
| your business, you need to actively monitor who is | | | | few business owners. |
| your top customer, what is your open account | | | | InfoCaptor, is another Dashboard alternative where |
| receivables, what is your inventory etc | | | | you can download the software on your PC and view |
| A small business is often bootstrapped so obviously | | | | the dashboards. It provides Expense trending, Sales |
| there are no administrators who will run the reports so | | | | trending and various gauges for financial ratios to alert |
| it is the owner's job to keep a daily health check of his | | | | you if your business is going off-track. |
| business. | | | | Sure, all of this information is available right in |
| MyBizHomepage, a Middleburg, Virginia-based startup, | | | | Quickbooks but the problem is you need to run |
| automatically uploads your QuickBooks data (2007 | | | | seperate reports to get all these information. So lets |
| and 2008 versions only) to your own customizable | | | | say it typically takes 5 mins to run a typical report and |
| web page, where you can keep an eye on your | | | | if the business owner where to run say 10 different |
| enterprise's critical operational factors in real time. | | | | reports on a daily basis that itself accounts to a |
| Many are standard-but-important business | | | | precious 50 mins of his/her time. |