The BS/1 Professional launch pad fits compactly on
yourscreen. Selecting an application from the drop-down
listsets the toolbar to the four most frequently used
options.Example: Time Billing toolbar has buttons for
Customers,Jobs, Time Sheets and Reports. Client
projects/jobs are tracked by priority and due date.Project
leaders may be assigned to jobs and the tasks whichmake up
the jobs may be assigned to general employees. Billing time
against the tasks which make up a job isfacilitated by a
stopwatch and a time calculator. The hourlyrate charged is
based on the task type or from an optionalcustom rate for
the task. Multi-currency features facilitate purchasing and
billinginternationally. Payables and receivables are
trackedseparately for each currency and the GL
automaticallyconverts revenues and expenses to domestic
currency. Gain orloss due to exchange rate fluctuations is
tracked. User-defined financial statements can be created
through asimple set-up process. GL account totals and
inventory totals can be viewed onscreen with drill-down to
original source transactions. The system comes with sample
data to provide a quickoverview and an optional Getting
Started wizard to save timeentering initial live data. The
wizard sets up common GLaccounts which can later be changed,
deleted, or added to.