minicontrol - business planning made easy

minicontrol - business planning made easy  (Keywords: business planner, Cash flow, support tool)

Minicontrol is a computer-based business support tool for people who want to start a business, new start-up businesses and micro-entrepreneurs employing between one and ten employees.

It is particularly useful for people who want to see what will happen in their business, but are not confident working with figures. It does not only support financial planning but also helps the entrepreneur in some essential managerial tasks like sales.

minicontrol is a comfortable alternative to a cash planning with excel sheets. It is more stable, easier to handle and more flexible than Excel. The development of minicontrol is based on years of experience in the advice of small businesses.

minicontrol contains a business planner for start-up`s too. In this mode you can prepare the financial parts of your business plan. The entered data can be used for further planning with minicontrol. You can switch between the planning & controlling mode and the business plan at any time. Just try it out free of charge!

minicontrol’s main advantages are:

• It is a forecasting tool, so users can plan very effectively
• It is easy to understand, avoiding technical language.
• It is easy to learn – usually taking less than two hours, without accounting skills needed
• It puts the businessman in control – they can quickly see how their business is doing, and the issues and opportunities ahead.
• It includes personal finances – so the businessman can see whether they will have enough to pay themselves.
• It is divided into different modules – so the businessman can start slowly, with just the modules they find most useful.
• It can show what the businessman needs to do to achieve their goal – for example, which customers to ring, and how often.
• It produces simple one-page reports, showing how different aspects of the business are going
• It provides an automatic rolling assessment of VAT due.

minicontrol includes the following modules:

Household budget module
In the Household Budget your private expenses are compared with your private income that does not rely on your company. The balance shows your drawings needed from business.

Cash flow module
You can use this module to how much cash you expect to have each month. Just enter your expected payments and cash receipts in the first column for each month. The actual figures will come up automatically as you fill in the expenses and sales modules, so you can compare the two.

Order module
This module shows you which customers you are woking with at present and how much you expect to be paid for each order from them. You can enter actual payments when you get them and see how much is still owing.

Customer development module
This module helps you keep track of your orders. It lets you enter information step by step and give's you an overview at all times.

Financing module
This module helps you work out how much capital you need to start up, or to expand. It also lets you show where the finance will come from. You can insert actual figures as you go along and compare them with your forecast.

Profitability module
This module allows you to view and analyse your actual figures, taken from bank statements, cashbook and annual accounts.

Charge-out rate module
You can calculate your hourly rate with this tool in a few steps.

Customer analysis module
This tool helps retailers and service providers analyse the flow of customers each day and each week and the effect of sales promotions.

Liabilities module
You can record all your current loans and other liabilities with this tool. It helps you anticipate possible financial difficulties before they arise and helps you through them if they do occur.

Getting business by telephone module
This tool helps you work out how many telephone calls you have to make to achieve your target turnover.

Download our free demoversion now!

• Start-up`s
• Small and micro businesses

System requirements:

Based on PC	Win Vista	Win XP	Win 2000	Win NT
	Win ME	Win 9x	Netware	MAC OS
	OS/2	DOS
Based on Unix	Unix	Linux	SCO	AIX
	HP-UX	Reliant	Sinix	Irix
	Solaris	True64	OpenBSD
Based on Mainframe	Open/VMS	OS 400	BS2000	MVS
Based on Handheld / Mobile	Palm OS	Windows Mobile	Symbian	Blackberry
Based on Online-Appl.	ASP / SaaS (web based application)

Memory requirements:	RAM: 128, Hard Disk: 100 MB
Network-compatible:	no

Medium:

Floppy disk

CD-ROM

DVD

Tape/Band

Online

System Language:	German
Documentation:	Users Manual
Training:	not required
Hotline:	for value
Installation Support:	not required
Maintenance:	not required
Price:	236,81 EUR (199 EUR plus 19% VAT)
Manufacturer based in:	Germany

Manufacturer:	EVERS & JUNG GmbH
Contact:	Mr. Sascha Behnk