It is that time again, month end close. The executives are looking for finalized Statements of Operations, the bank is holding the company to a set of financial ratios, and of course, everyone is calling and asking when checks were mailed. All of the details are somewhere, on paper piled up on your desk, buried in an excel spreadsheet, or somewhere in the accounting software. Bringing all the details together in a timely fashion with a reduced staff and a mountain of paperwork is a huge task for anyone, especially you, the Accounting Professional. 

We work with residential homebuilders across teh country and their Controller's constantly tell us how hard it is to combine information from various sources to pull together pertinent financial parameters. Their frustration is not only with the various systems that are used to collect data, but also that in many cases, it is nearly impossible to get data out of the systems in order to analyze the results of operations. They go into further detail about how department managers are often acting on outdated information. They are also frustrated with vendors constantly on the phone asking for payment information. These Controller's know all of the systems in the office, but how to put the data all into one place, where everyone has the same access to the information is constantly placed on the backburner due to everyday hiccups in financial operations.

As we sit down with homebuilder Controller's, we walk through the entire operation and help them map how information flows from sales, marketing, production and customer service into the financial management system and back out to the vendor community. We want to determine the best piece of operational and financial management software to allow the results of operations to be timely and accurate. 

We have discovered that every residential homebuilder operates differently, so we have mastered SBS Group's Building Decisions Solutions to provide products that are flexible, customizable, and easy to use. We acknowledge the applications need to scale from smaller builders on up to the National Builders and have products to meet your specific needs using all of the advantages Microsoft Technology has to offer.

Key advantages to the Building Decisions Solutions approach provide you:

• Automated accounts payable from approved purchase orders
• Vendor portals with payment information updated in real-time
• Flexible reporting that fits the way you do business, not the other way around
• Easy to use query tools so that you can analyze the productivity of your company
• Multi-Company with Intercompany processing is no longer a headache
• Control purchases by easily tracking supplies, materials and inventory

Because everyone in the organization is using one set of data, you can get the right information, to the right people, at the right time and still get home for dinner.