Small Business Dashboard Options

In one of the surveys it was mentioned, most of themeasures-the state of payables, receivables, cash
new Small business's fail not because of theirflow and inventory.
execution or anything else but because the ownerIn the above option you need to send your quickbook
never realized where the problem is. To keep track ofdata to a third party which may be of little concern for
your business, you need to actively monitor who isfew business owners.
your top customer, what is your open accountInfoCaptor, is another Dashboard alternative where
receivables, what is your inventory etcyou can download the software on your PC and view
A small business is often bootstrapped so obviouslythe dashboards. It provides Expense trending, Sales
there are no administrators who will run the reports sotrending and various gauges for financial ratios to alert
it is the owner's job to keep a daily health check of hisyou 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 (2007seperate reports to get all these information. So lets
and 2008 versions only) to your own customizablesay it typically takes 5 mins to run a typical report and
web page, where you can keep an eye on yourif 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 businessprecious 50 mins of his/her time.