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Sage MAS 90 Small Business - Crystal Reports

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Save Time Designing and Distributing Presentation-Quality Reports — Create and customize presentation-quality reports from your Sage MAS 90 or Sage MAS 200 data with Crystal Decisions software. Crystal Decisions is a powerful WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) report writer that allows you to create meaningful reports quickly and easily. You can use sample reports straight out of the box (see the column at left for a listing of the 27 report templates included). Or, modify them to suit your needs, then save and run them anytime.

Create Any Kind of Report You Can Imagine — Take control over the look of your documents by selecting font type, size and color. Enhance the layout by applying lines, borders and shading. Further enrich your reports with embedded pictures, diagrams and logos. Use tables, cross-tabulations or one of twelve graph styles to communicate your financial information. You can even create reports with drill-down capabilities simply by selecting that option for the detail section of a report.

Perform Powerful Data Analysis — Crystal’s “Experts” are wizards that guide you through the report process from start to finish, and Private Tutor is a built-in training and online help system. You can run your reports at pre-determined times, even unattended. See the features list on the reverse side for exciting new capabilities.

Easily Access All Your Data — The ODBC (open database connectivity) driver, included with the application, gives Crystal Decisions direct access to Sage MAS 90 and Sage MAS 200 data. The ODBC driver also provides read-only access to Sage MAS 90 and Sage MAS 200 data for other applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel and Access software — for automatic transfer of your accounting information into other applications and report writers. Crystal is included with your Sage MAS 90 or Sage MAS 200 software.

FEATURES:

Sub-Reports - These may be embedded in a main report so that you can insert information from different tables with different formats into any section of a report. For example, you can embed your income statement into the balance sheet and pull the net income figure into the balance sheet.

Conditional and Multiple Section Reports - This feature lets you specify special conditions for each section of a report, allowing one report to produce several different outcomes.

Enhanced Cross-Tabulation Objects - You can present summary information in a single cell, replacing columnar report formats.

Form-Style Reports - This feature allows for printing with greater precision on pre-printed forms using new guidelines and text objects.

Mail-Merge Capabilities - You can combine database information with letters or other text objects, and specify selection criteria to target specific groups of customers.

Report Design Control - Improved user interface gives more power and control over report design by letting you customize your design environment. You can also use a drawing model instead of a pre-defined grid for more accurate placement of data fields.

Control Formatting with Formulas - Data can be displayed in a different color or underlined to put emphasis on a particular cell and its value.

Enhanced Graphing Capabilities - You can graph on details, formulas and subtotals, and there are several graphical formats to choose from.

Report Distribution Capabilities - With Crystal Decisions, you can publish reports to the Web with automatic HTML output, presenting embedded graphs and other features of the original report. When exporting to Word and Excel, images, lines, boxes, and color are included. You can e-mail reports in one of 15 file formats.

32-Bit ODBC Driver - For Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows Workstation 4.0 users with Office 95 or Office 97 versions of Excel, Word, and all versions of Access.

CUSTOMIZABLE REPORT TEMPLATES

Accounts Payable

Aged Invoice
Check History
Trial Balance
Vendor Listing

Accounts Receivable

Aged Invoice
Customer Listing
Sales Analysis
Salesperson Commission
Trial Balance

Bank Reconciliation

Monthly Transaction Listing

General Ledger

Income Statement
Trial Balance

Inventory Management

Item Listing
Item Reorder
Stock Status
Item Valuation

Job Cost

Masterfile Listing
Code Detail
Analysis by Cost Type
Billing History
Work In Process

Purchase Order

Purchase History
Open PO by Item
Open Purchase Order

Sales Order

Customer Sales History
Monthly Sales by Product Line
Open Sales Order by Item