Basic Tools Required For The Business Consultant

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Business consulting is the practice of assisting other organizations and business houses in order to overcome some business hassles thus resulting in improved performance and productivity of the business house. The very first step is to find a suitable business consultant. A business house or organization needs professional with a wide range of skills but at the same time can not afford to hire full time people. A business consultant must have three basic things that include available hardware, software and online services.

Some of the basic tools required for the business consultant listed below:

 Microsoft Office
By using this tool one may save contacts, create presentations, financial spreadsheets, design websites, send e-mails as well as word documents and put together newsletters. Thus, this tool is of great help to the consultant and saves a lot of time and energy.

 Peachtree First Accounting or QuickBooks
One has to keep track of expenses as well as income. Both these tools are extremely good, but Peachtree first accounting is more intuitive. Moreover, if the person is ...
... not comfortable using accounting software, he can easily do the same functions by using Microsoft Excel. Thus, business consultant must have basic tools so that he can perform the work easily saving time which is a crucial constraint.

 Marketing Material
There are a wide range of software packages that are quite inexpensive such as My Business Cards or business card designs. This software is not much expensive and comes with brochure, business card and other templates. One may also go online and may get up to 200 free business cards.

 Tax Planning
There are so many tools available in the market for the planning of tax. Intuit’s Turbo Tax for home as well as for business is the best available product in the market. It is highly easy to use thus saves a lot of time. If the business consultant is using QuickBooks, he may download the information directly into Turbo Tax as this software allows planning for the following year’s taxes.

 Business Plan
A new business consultant, who has just started his consulting firm, must prepare the business plan. Business consultant must look at certain products like Bplans.com and Business Plan Pro.

 Tracking business cards and receipts
For tracking business cards and receipts, various products are available that are digital filling system that allows scanning receipts, documents and business cards. These devices take a small amount of space and connect well with other software’s. Because of diversity of functions, these software’s are extremely important.

 PDF Converter
Business consultant has to do a lot of mailing contracts or other documents; therefore, he must have PDF converter so that he can carry out his work economically and efficiently.

 Mobile Phone
A business consultant must have mobile that too with advance applications like Blackberry so that he can check and send e-mails through it.

 Laptop
A business consultant must have his own laptop as the laptop is portable. He can carry out his work anywhere he wanted.

AUTHOR BIO
DKM Consulting is a business consulting combined business start up, operations, financial, and manufacturing experience in various industries. Our experience is with small, mid size, large Fortune 500, 1000 and non profit firms. Our Knowledge includes financial reporting, business plans, streamlining operations, sales consulting, corporate profitability, and customer relationship management.