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The accounting services team at SDK created this presentation for small business owners to utilize apps as efficient business tools.

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There’s An

App For That!!

June 22, 2011

Accounting Services

Department

Presented by Pam Brackeen

pbrackeen@sdkcpa.com

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Description: Scans business cards and organizes them into a contact listGenerates and recognizes Quick Response (QR) Codes

Pricing: Free version OR versions up to $11.99

Uses: Electronic storage of business cards organized by categories, allows for notes on each contact, email signature recognition, QR codes 3

▪Scans business cards in seconds and auto fills contact info▪Recognizes 12 languages▪Merges with phone contacts, integrates with Facebook & LinkedIn

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▪Generates and reads QR codes▪Copy and paste email signature blocks

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Description: Gives up-to-date business news, market data and portfolio tracking tools

Pricing: Free

Uses: Business headlinesStock info

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▪Customize headlines by categories like commodities, countries, energy, politics, etc.

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▪Shows 52 week chart, related news, brief description of company as well as trading info

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Description: Real-time stock quotesBusiness newsVideosBlogsBefore, during and after hours trading

Pricing: Free

Uses: Business headlinesStock info

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▪Shows 52 week chart, related news, brief description of company as well as trading info

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▪Create multiple customizable lists of stocks

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▪Watch predefined lists of stocks by various categories

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▪Blogs, videos and links to Cramer’s Mad Money

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Description: Tracks mileage for business expenses as well as fuel, tolls and other expenses

Pricing: $1.99

Uses: Tracks business, charity, medical or personal mileage Notes section for each tripMultiple car options

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▪Can use starting & ending odometer features or enter in actual trip miles

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▪Displays mileage records by day, week, month or year▪Displays total miles & reimbursed costs by selected period

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▪Displays mileage in chart format

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▪Multiple options available to format settings

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Description: List of accounting terms and brief descriptions

Pricing: $.99

Uses: Allows you to understand terms your accountants are using!!

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▪Search terms by name to get a brief description as to what the term means

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Description: Calculate common financial ratios from various categories

Pricing: $4.99

Uses: Ratios for profitability, liquidity, debt, efficiency and market

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▪5 categories of rations to choose from and multiple ratios in each category

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Description: Check your refund, sign up for emails on tax updates, contact info

Pricing: Free

Uses: Limited

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Presented by Jennifer Stavish

jstavish@sdkcpa.com

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Description: QuickBooks Mobile/Online App

Pricing: $9.95/month for single user

Uses: Sync with your QuickBooks file to create invoices and access customer information on the go

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Description: Bookkeeping for small businesses

Pricing: $4.99

Uses: Enter and track revenues and expenses

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▪Ability to enter revenues and expenses

▪Added feature of regular, price and loan calculator

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▪Listing of income and expenses for period selected

▪Options to show all data or just expenses or income

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▪Monthly or Weekly reports showing your account activity

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Description: Checkbook Ledger

Pricing: $4.99 (lite version is free)

Uses: Track your personal account balances and see your spending habits

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▪Lite version allows the tracking of 2 accounts, paid version allows for unlimited accounts▪Ability to track both the current balance and the cleared balance

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▪Comes with standard categories or you can personalize your own categories▪Recurring payees and category info in the Platinum edition

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▪Trend reports available in the Platinum Edition▪Reports can be top level or detail oriented

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Description: Quickoffice Pro

Pricing: $19.99

Uses: Create, view, edit and share Microsoft® Office files

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▪Options include Word, Excel, Power Point or PDF

▪Insert images from your phone for Power Point presentations

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▪Edit Excel documents ▪Create and edit documents in Word

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Presented by Staza Pany

spany@sdkcpa.com

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Description: Online storage/ syncing service

Pricing: Free (2GB); $9.99/mo (50GB); $19.99/mo (100GB)

Uses: Store (back up) documents, photos, videos online

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▪Upload different types of files to your Dropbox account or create files within Dropbox▪Share, download, or open your documents wherever you have access to the internet.

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Description: Mobile/online note-taking program that allows you to gather pictures, ideas, notes, etc from many different sources

Pricing: Free version OR Premium = $5/mo or $45/yr

Uses: Planning big projects, collecting information, note-taking

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• Can upload info from

mobile device or the

web

• Can add multiple forms

of data (i.e. pictures,

audio, video)

• Notebook system

– Notes

– Notebooks

– Stacks

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• Easy to search through notes/ notebooks (including images)

• Tags add an additional search feature

• Able to share notebooks with other users

• Somewhat confusing with the different features

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Description: Electronic “Post-it” notes

Pricing: Free

Uses: To do lists, reminders

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▪Text note ▪Checklist note

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▪Various colors (can sort by color)▪Can add notes directly to home page

▪Can set up reminders (doesn’t sync with your calendar)

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Description: Mobile time tracker

Pricing: Free version OR $3.99 to upgrade

Uses: Contractors, lawyers (anyone who bills clients by the hour)

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▪Simple clock in/out ▪Keeps running even if phone is shut off

▪Shows elapsed time with client, project, & notes

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▪Able to customize clients by setting hourly rate/ billing increment

▪Paid version allows you to add a time record

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▪Exports to a CSV file making it easy to create invoices

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Description: Online scheduling service

Pricing: Free (paid versions are available)

Uses: Coordinate meetings/gatherings with multiple people, create polls

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▪ Select multiple options of meeting times▪Invite others to share their availability

▪Easily see which date/time will work for the majority

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Presented by Michele Jensrud

mjensrud@sdkcpa.com

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Description: Allows you to stop applications from running

Pricing: Free

Uses: You can select applications to “KILL,” and help

save battery life

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Description: Allows you to take a picture of a document and convert it into a PDF file

Pricing: Free

Uses: By taking a picture of the document with yourphone’s camera, you can convert the pages into a PDF

PDF’s files are stored on SD card and can be shared or uploaded to Google Doc

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Description: GPS tracking service

Pricing: Free

Uses: Able to track your phone online in real time

Share your locations with friends and family

Recover lost phones

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Description: Travel organizer

Pricing: Free

Uses: Puts all your travel plans right on your androidForward travel confirmation emails to plans@tripit.com to build a trip itinerary

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Description: Uses the camera’s

flash on your phone

as a flashlight.

Pricing: Free

Flashlight zaphrox:

Color Flashlight:

Description: Uses the screen of

the phone as a

flashlight.

You can change the

color, brightness and

other effects!

Pricing: Free60

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Thank you

for

joining us today!

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