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SUCCESSFUL SMALL BUSINESS CONSULTING Awesome Applications for 2014 T Tallie SpringAhead htp://usetallie.com he 2014 awards highlight several "chunks" in the business process. By chunkifying small business accounting systems, we divide each business process into a discrete system. Tis frees businesses to fnd the best match at each step in their specifc business work fow. For example, each business can select from a variety of suppliers: the best Payroll; CRM; Ecommerce; POS; Payments; Job Costing; Time tracking; and so on. And with chunkifcation, you have Doug Sleeter Mr. Sleeter is the founder of The Sleeter Group, a national group of accounting software consultants who serve small and medium-sized businesses. He is the host of the Accounting Solutions Conference and the author of several books including the QuickBooks Consultant's Reference Guide, and the leading market college textbooks "QuickBooks Fundamentals and QuickBooks Complete." For more information, call 888-484-5484 or visit www.sleeter.com. Doug can also be reached at Doug.Sleeter@CPAPracticeAdvisor.com. 22 a whole marketplace of application developers who continue to innovate in each area. Chunkifcation is much beter than all-in-one systems because chunk developers can focus on smaller, more vertically focused areas and buyers can choose the best ft from several choices. For more information about the awesome application awards, including the voting totals, see The Sleeter Group's web site at htp://www.sleeter. com/awesomeapps. The selection process included voting from the community during August 2013 and our expert panel worked during that time to diligently analyze each of the nominees. Community votes accounted for 40 percent of the fnal selections and the expert panel accounted for 60 percent of the overall score. Here are the winners of the 2014 Awesome Application Awards: BigTime Mobile BigTime Sofware, Inc. www.bigtime.net TIME AND EXPENSE TRACKING BigTime Mobile provides anytime, anywhere timesheet and expense tracking. From a timesheet format that lets users submit time as easily as sending an email, to expense entry that lets them log billable or non-billable costs, ofine November 2013 • www.CPAPracticeAdvisor.com or online, upload pictures of receipts and much more. Bigtime is easy to use and integrates fawlessly into QuickBooks desktop and QuickBooks online. TSheets TSheets.com www.tsheets.com TIME & ATTENDANCE More than a timer; TSheets is an application designed for payroll, recording start and stop times even when the application is closed. Employees can track time using a computer, mobile phone, GPS-enabled apps, text, dial in, Twiter and more - with clock in / out punch card or manual timesheet fexibility. Featuring smart, reliable integration with QuickBooks (online & desktop), TSheets solves the problem of timetracking for hourly employees, a huge requirement for efficient payroll preparation. EXPENSE TRACKING AND REPORTING Tallie is a mobile business expense report platform designed for users, built by fnance experts and engineered to integrate with accounting systems and accounting-related SaaS solutions. Tallie intelligently scans, categorizes and matches receipt and credit card data, automatically generates expense reports, and pushes data into fnancial accounting systems. It allows automatic and selective transaction import from multiple credit cards. To ensure data integrity and control fraud, Tallie includes a suite of compliance (policies, groups, multi-level approval routing), internal control (duplicate identification, project accounting, general ledger mapping), and analytics tools. While Tallie can integrate with all accounting sofware, it provides bi-directional integration with Bill.com via a cloudto-cloud direct integration. This integration features deep, real-time data synchronization in all critical expense data: account, customer, vendor, item, and class. Tis ensures that your expense and billing data are always up to date, no mater the system you are using. BizTools Professional Analytics BizTools www.biztoolsanalytics.com BUSINESS ANALYTICS BizTools has served mid-market and enterprise clients for