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A Customizable Small Business Manager
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Abstract
Based on the current challenges that small business face which include competition, insecurity, debt collection, lack of working capital and power interruptions, this system is developed to solve most of these problems. The system is designed for management of business activities such as sales, purchasing, daily and weekly profit tracking, inventory, accounts payable and reports by managers, accountants, and will run on local host using wamp5 as the server and the browser as the host. The system is designed to adapt to the kind of business the user wishes to undertake. It is built using PHP(Hypertext preprocessor), MYSQL (My Structured Query Language) as the application database, HTML (Hypertext Markup Language and wamp5 as the server.
Introduction
Business management is the process of the planning, co-ordination and controlling (Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). To survive in the long run, a business must be profitable and liquid. To do so, it must create sufficient value for its customers so that its revenues exceed its total costs. The overall task of business management is to address successfully the problems that confront a business in its role as a value-creating organization. A small business manager is an affordable, easy-to-use financial and business management solution designed specifically to help small businesses work smarter and faster, easily access information to make informed decisions, and effectively integrate with business applications that are mostly used (http:wwwavtechmedgp.htm). It is an ideal for companies ready to move beyond a basic accounting solution. It helps one get up and running quickly, scales as his business grows and offers reliable multi-user access.
Therefore, a customizable small business manager is an application developed to enable small businesses to leverage their existing sales and contact information in more useful ways, achieve more effective customer tracking, analysis and communication by making use of the data they already have (http:wwwavtechmedgp.htm).. However some small businesses may need to expand the capabilities of the small business manager to fit a specific business task. Small business manager includes financial, banking, sales, purchasing, administration and payroll capabilities as well as quick and easy reporting.
Statement of Problem
Companies are overwhelmed with the tasks of manually securing and providing reliable access for up to five concurrent users, accounting controls and real audit tracking and several database options like Ms Access, Oracle, etc. Other problems include time management, state of economy, high cost of insurance, taxes, health and safely, and competitions. This situation immediately implies inefficiency on the part of the business venture. With this in mind, this project is designed to easily automate all business processes of a small business and further adapt the system to any small business.
Objectives of the Study
The primary objective of this project is to develop a computer-aided business manager that will facilitate speedy transaction. Tasks such as manually keeping stock and inventory control records, issuing of receipt, viewing sales reports have been taken care of automatically by the manager software.
Significance of the Study
Small Business Manager offers a number of powerful, advanced features designed for small, growing businesses such as determining business growth by monitoring sales, performing accounting operations, creating daily financial and other reports, managing cash flows. With small business manager, one can designate the areas that employees can have access to.
Small Business Manager helps in monitoring amounts due from customers and amounts owed to suppliers with viewlist receivables and payables management features.
Theoretical Background
Federal, State and Local Government in Australia have made a commitment to create a conducive environment for business growth based on the understanding that businesses are the creators of wealth and sustainable employment. Consequently, a considerable range of government funded business support programmes has been implemented primarily to assist growth by facilitating business strategic planning, encouraging the adoption of new technologies and seeking new market opportunities.
In 2000 a local government Economic Development Unit partnered with a university to initiate research into the design, development and delivery of a small business support programme. The objective was to address a recognized market failure and cultural gap between small businesses and government agency provision of support, through the development of a programme that would be more readily perceived by owner-managers as having utility to their businesses.
The Definition based on Qualitative data
The management in the small business context was sometimes viewed as the same with management in the small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) context. This conclusion is however argued by part of the scholars. Burrows et al (1989) argued that the emphasis to define only from quantitative basis is not sufficient to explain the uniqueness of small businesses when a range of other qualitative criteria such as the type of economic activities, types of employed technology or the characteristics of decision making process are being neglected.