Computer Forensics Firm Recovers 16 Hours a Week for Improved Quality of Life

Microsoft Office Accounting 2007 Customer Solution Case Study

“Office Accounting 2007 helps me maximize my Customer: ComputerLegalExperts.com free time so I have time for two jobs and my family.” Web Site: www.computerlegalexperts.com Steven Moshlak, President, ComputerLegalExperts.com Customer Size: One employee Country or Region: United States ComputerLegalExperts.com, of the Washington, D.C. area, Industry: Professional services provides computer forensics and computer expert witness Customer Profile services. President Steven Moshlak used to spend his ComputerLegalExperts.com provides computer forensics services to Saturdays doing the books, but he still didn’t have a good sense individuals, businesses, and of overall business health. Since deploying Microsoft® Office governmental agencies. The company is owned by 21st Century Strategic Accounting 2007, Moshlak has eliminated at least 16 hours of Solutions, of Centerville, Virginia, where weekly administrative work. Now, he’s able to spend that time Steven Moshlak is the President. with his family and growing his business. Software and Services  Microsoft® Office Professional 2007 − Microsoft Office Accounting Professional 2007 Business Needs from one another. Clients include Hardware Steven Moshlak has a full-time job as an individual litigants, businesses, Internet IT project manager for a United States service providers (ISPs), and  Custom-built desktop computer with AMD 64-bit processor defense contractor, a family, and a governmental agencies. consulting business on the side. There are never enough hours in the day for two “I love doing computer forensics, and I businesses, his family, and his hobbies. don’t want to spend my limited hours doing bookkeeping work,” Moshlak says. He only Moshlak provides computer forensics and has about 20 to 30 hours a week to devote computer expert witness services through to his business and was spending about his business, ComputerLegalExperts.com. half that time sorting out his financial He uses special software to acquire and records, preparing invoices, and tracking analyze the contents of clients’ computers, expenses. looking for evidence of computer crime For more information about other such as child pornography, employee Moshlak initially used the Microsoft® Office Microsoft customer successes, please misuse of company assets, and financial Excel® 2003 spreadsheet software, and visit: www.microsoft.com/casestudies assets that squabbling couples try to hide later Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006, for expense tracking. Accounting 2007 templates to create features provided by Microsoft Office However, to prepare an invoice, Moshlak professional-looking invoices that he then Accounting 2007, I don’t need to hire a first had to create a spreadsheet to sends as e-mail messages to customers. bookkeeper, which would cost about document his time and activities for the $1,000 a month,” he says. project. Even after creating a template Cash management is push-button easy. spreadsheet, this took an hour or more per Moshlak can find out at a glance which  At-a-glance view of business. “The cash customer. customers are behind in their payments flow reports give me up-to-the-minute and determine how much money is in his insight into the health of my business,” Also, Moshlak was not able to get a current checking account. “I can very quickly see he adds. “Whether you’re a sole view of cash flow. “I could track expenses which clients have outstanding invoices proprietor, an LLC, or a small using a spreadsheet, but I couldn’t and use Microsoft Office Word to corporation, you want to minimize determine how much money I had in my automatically draft letters to let them overhead and make sure you’re making checking account at any given time,” he know,” Moshlak says. “Before, this would money. Office Accounting 2007 helps says. “The irony was that I had state-of-the- have been one more administrative task to me keep an eye on my bottom line while art software for doing computer forensics, deal with, so I just wouldn’t have done it.” focusing my time on serving my clients.” but I didn’t have basic accounting software to easily manage mundane administrative Moshlak uses the data export feature in  Improved quality of life. What is Moshlak tasks. I needed an accounting package that Office Accounting 2007 into a Microsoft doing with his extra time each week? would serve me, not the other way around.” Excel spreadsheet to automatically cull tax “Instead of doing books all day data from his records at year-end and Saturday, I have time for golf. Office send it as an e-mail attachment to his Accounting 2007 helps me maximize my Solution accountant. “Because I’ve already entered free time so I have time for two jobs and When Moshlak learned that Microsoft was financial data into Office Accounting 2007, my family.” coming out with a new accounting product, I don’t need to sort through invoices and he was immediately interested. “I’m a receipts looking for information,” he says.  Expandable as business grows. Moshlak’s longtime user of Microsoft software, “In a few mouse-clicks, I can send all dream is to some day retire from his day because I know that its quality and stability pertinent data to my accountant.” job and devote himself full time to are outstanding,” he says. He was also ComputerLegalExperts.com. “When I’m assured that Microsoft support would be ready to expand my business, Office there for him as he moved to a new Benefits Accounting 2007 will expand with me,” product. “Whenever I’ve had a problem with The use of Microsoft Office Accounting Moshlak says. “It has nifty features for a Microsoft program, it’s been resolved in a 2007 has freed up 16 hours a week for payroll, staff resource tracking, and single phone call.” Moshlak’s computer forensics work and other features that I don’t currently use.” his family. Moshlak installed an early-release version  Competitive advantage. “With the of Microsoft Office Accounting Professional  16-hour-a-week timesavings. “Thanks to capabilities that Office Accounting 2007 2007 and has been using it ever since for Office Accounting 2007, I’m saving 16 provides, I am able to exhibit a time-tracking, billing, sales-records hours a week in administrative work,” professional edge and show my clients management, and cash management. Each Moshlak says. The savings come from that I’m honest and serious about my workday, Moshlak records his hours in 10 fewer hours a week spent tracking business,” Moshlak says. Office Accounting 2007, and the program his time and maintaining sales records, streamlines the preparation of itemized 4 fewer hours spent on invoicing, and 2 invoices each month by enabling Moshlak fewer hours spent driving to the post to insert different hourly rates for different office. He also saves 20 to 30 hours a services. He also takes advantage of Office year preparing tax data. Plus, “With the

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Document published December 2006