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 list
Generates 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,
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▪Scans business cards in seconds and auto fills
contact info
▪Recognizes 12 languages
▪Merges with phone contacts, integrates with
Facebook & LinkedIn 4
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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 headlines
Stock 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 quotes
Business news
Videos
Blogs
Before, during and after hours trading
Pricing: Free
Uses: Business headlines
Stock 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 trip
Multiple 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 ▪Added feature of
revenues and expenses regular, price and loan
calculator
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▪Listing of income and ▪Options to show all
expenses for period data or just expenses or
selected 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, ▪Insert images from
Excel, Power Point or your phone for Power
PDF 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 ▪Can set up reminders
by color) (doesn’t sync with your
▪Can add notes directly calendar)
to home page
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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 ▪Shows elapsed time
▪Keeps running even with client, project, &
if phone is shut off notes
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▪Able to customize ▪Paid version allows
clients by setting hourly you to add a time
rate/ billing increment 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 your
phone’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 android
Forward travel confirmation emails to
plans@tripit.com to build a trip itinerary
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Flashlight zaphrox:
Description: Uses the camera’s
flash on your phone
as a flashlight.
Pricing: Free
Color Flashlight:
Description: Uses the screen of
the phone as a
flashlight.
You can change the
color, brightness and
other effects!
Pricing: Free 60
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Thank you
for
joining us today!
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