Looking for an Expense Report Software ??
Recording expenses is sometimes more troublesome than spending itself, and like they say 'cigarette smoking is injurious' and still smoke, we too tend to avoid expense-keeping despite knowing that it is going to be injurious to our financial health. Good expense management practices start with recording today's expenses today, and in a way that will help you retrieve recorded expenses easily and in the way you want it.
We did a small survey to find out what people miss in their expense report software or what is their wishlist for an expense software. The top five most popular answers, in the words of these people, are below
"I get fed up of clubbing all my electricity, telephone and mobile bills under 'Utility Bills'. I would like to identify each of these expenses seperately in the expense report. In fact, I wish I could decide the expense headings myself instead of selecting from the available options"
"Ha ! I'm still looking for a unisex expense management software. Me and my husband use a software at home, and I get a hard time deducting his expenses from the total so that I can get to know my total expense ! It's good as a family expense keeping tool, but when it comes to individual expense tracking, its a thumbs down. I wish the software could relate an expense to a family member"
"I'm a businessman, and me and my staff use a software for recording expenses. Though we try to get bills for every expense, expenses without bills often creep in. I wish there was a way to indentify from a hundred pages of expenses which ones had bills. It will not only help me in filing my income tax returns, but will also help me isolate geniune expenses from questionable ones"
"I work as a sales rep and often travel out of my base location. I've tried a free expense software, but it didn't categorize my business and personal expenses seperately. So everytime I bought a gift for my wife from whereever I was travelling, I knew I incurred an expense which I could not record. I wish a software could tell me what percentage of the my total spending was personal"
"I believe that expense cannot be managed unless you know which way you're going. For all you know, you may be actually spending less than the previous months and still be worrying that your're high on spending ! I've still to see a software that will give me a trend of a particular expense, say my car gas"
And, after hearing all these and many many more, we said, So Be It
Presenting BEM, a Better Expense Management software that is sure to bring an end to all your expense keeping woes !! It meets ALL the above expectations and much more !
And, here's why..
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BEM is extremely flexible. YOU define your own expense headings. In fact, you define EVERY heading that will appear in reports !
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Categorize expenses based on names of family or staff members
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Further categorization of expenses as 'with bill' and 'without bill' expenses
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Ability to produce seperate as well as combined reports for business and personal expenses
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Ability for trend reports for expenses; know how much you spent on a particular expense each month
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It has a budget planner. It will help you plan your finances as it will output what minimum you are going to spend next month and so on
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The software comes with password protection feature, and can change the login any time and any number of times
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The reports can be converted to word, excel, plain text, and even a web page ! It will help in easily emailing the reports as attachment
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Allows you to set up the page before printing. Depending on your printer capabilities, you can choose the margins and page layout before printing
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Comes alongwith a help file for easy adaptation to the software
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Generates expense reports in over 100 different formats
By now you'll be wondering how much does it cost. It's 15 dollars, and just look at what you'll get in just fifteen dollars ! If you use BEM, you'll be able to analyse your expenses in a comprehensive way and save much more than this every month !
System Requirements : Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 2 or higher or Windows Vista operating system, 256 MB RAM or higher. To verify this, right-click on 'My Computer' or 'Compter' on your desktop and select 'Properties'.
Still not convinced ? Take a look at some of the report samples below
Image above : Detail expense report Grouped By Month For year (2006) & month (august)
Image Above : Brief expense report Grouped By expense For year (2006) & month (august)
Image above : Detailed expense report Grouped By month For year (2006) and expense (petrol)
Image above : Brief expense report Grouped By type For year (2006) and month (august)
We just cannot list all the 100+ report formats here ! You won't get a better offer !
System Requirements : Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 2 or higher or Windows Vista operating system, 256 MB RAM or higher. To verify this, right-click on 'My Computer' or 'Compter' on your desktop and select 'Properties'.