Press Release

Nonprofit Accounting Software Users Rate Their Satisfaction

Poll shows what customers want and which products deliver.

VALENCIA, CA – Two products received coveted Campbell Awards for their exceptional ratings in a recent nationwide survey of three hundred users of accounting software, Best Software's MIP Fund Accounting and Microsoft's Great Plains.

Microsoft Great Plains was rated by users as the product they would most likely recommend to others. Best Software's product received the highest overall score for the eighteen aspects of software rated by users in the survey.

"Earning a Campbell Award based on the Nonprofit Accounting Survey validates what we already know - that MIP Fund Accounting is the best fund accounting solution for organizations of all sizes," said Marc Griffin, SVP and general manager for Best Software's Nonprofit Solutions. "It is rewarding to be recognized for our commitment to providing the highest quality products to nonprofits."

"We are pleased to give software users an opportunity to voice their opinions", said Dirk Rinker, President of Campbell Rinker. "This survey represents their only chance to say what they feel to an independent researcher."

Among the key findings of the study were that system reliability was the aspect of accounting software that users find the most important. Fortunately, it is also the aspect that they are the most satisfied with. The ability to access the software via the Internet is the least important of the 18 aspects that were looked at.

The survey was conducted online between November 2004 and January 2005. The survey gathered information on user satisfaction, pricing preferences, purchasing habits, and organizational scope. Campbell Rinker thoroughly screened users to ensure that the results were accurate. Half of the respondents to the survey have final purchase authority for accounting software. Ninety-one percent of respondents use the software at least once a week.

More information on the report may be obtained from Campbell Rinker by calling (888) 722-6723 or mailing info@campbellrinker.com.

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