Mashable.com just came out with a quick reference guide on 5 Handy Apps for Small Business Finance Management. It features some useful apps, such as one to help you easily handle expense reports. Another aggregates all of your receivables and payables onto one easy-to-understand dashboard and provides budget recommendations.

Upon seeing the article, we thought, what apps do Bibby Financial Services employees use that could give small business owners an edge? Here are a few the team recommends:

• Salesforce CRM Mobile – This app provides any busy sales team access to their contacts and prospects when they’re travelling. Before we purchased this app, our sales people on the go would often resort to counting on others to log in to Salesforce to save their leads for them.  Now they can log in wherever they are and keep records of their activities up to date.

• GoToMeeting – This is another service we use at Bibby Financial Service. As a global company that offers a specialist export finance product, we often need to connect with colleagues that live across borders. GoToMeeting helps us make those meetings productive. It is a remote meeting and desktop sharing software that enables you to meet with other computer users, customers, clients or colleagues via the Internet in real-time. And with their app for iPhone and iPad we can connect on the go.

• Dropbox – This app helps us pass along large files without causing our IT department grief. Instead of emailing large files or folders, this services enables users to save them using cloud computing so they can be accessed anywhere.

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