9 computer software for use in accounting; performing financial statement consolidation; generating and printing business and financial reports; collecting business and financial data by polling local and/or remote terminals on computer networks; providing sales, marketing, operations, inventory, customer, supplier, shareholder, human resource, accounting, tax, financial, budgeting, currency exchange, transaction, planning and forecasting information to business managers to assist in managing business enterprises; business and financial information database management; generating and printing management reports, budgeting; financial planning and forecasting; business and financial asset tracking; conducting and tracking the purchase of goods and services for business enterprises; management of accounts payables and receivables; integrating separate business enterprise application programs; and object oriented software development