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Every year about this time, I see too many accounting systems that don’t work… QuickBooks and PeachTree and Microsoft Small Business Accounting programs that don’t do what their small business users want or need.

So

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

metimes, people know their accounting systems don’t work. And they don’t care. But, sadly, sometimes, the struggling small business person doesn’t even know his or her system isn’t working until it’s too late. Until

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

the business fails because the owners don’t realize they aren’t making money.

Fortunately, perhaps surprisingly, you can usually tell pretty quickly whether an accounting system like QuickBooks, Peachtree Accounting

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

, or Microsoft Small Business Accounting works the way it should. Just look for one or more of the following four symptoms.

Symptom #1: You Don’t Know How Much Cash You Have Right Now

Any accounting system,

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

run right, tells you how much money you have in your bank accounts. To the penny. Accordingly, if you can’t look at a bank register in your accounting system and see how much money you have, sorry, your system doesn’

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

t work.

Symptom #2: You Don’t Know How Much Money You Made Last Week, Month or Year

Here’s another symptom of things gone bad. With just a few clicks of your mouse, you should be able to produce an accountin

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

g report called a profit and loss statement that tells you whether you made money last week, last month, last year, and so on.

A profit and loss statement simply summarizes the revenues and expenses of a business fo

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

an interval of time and then shows the difference between these subtotals—which is your profit or loss.

Now, this instant access to profit and loss information wasn’t always the case. In the past, people often wait

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

ed until the end of the month or even the end of the quarter to send off their financial records to an accountant or bookkeeper. A few hours or a few days later, the bean counter produced a financial statement that s

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

howed whether or not the business had made money.

No more. If you’re doing your accounting right using something like QuickBooks, you should almost always be able to see whether you’re making money or not. And at al

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

most any moment in time. That’s the point.

Symptom #3: You See Goofy Numbers on Your Balance Sheet

The first two symptoms are pretty obvious, I guess, but the third symptom is sometimes more subtle…

Turns

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

out you can sometimes produce a profit and loss statement that sort of looks right--even if it sometimes isn’t. If you can produce a balance sheet that doesn’t have goofy numbers, though, that’s more telling. You can

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

’t fake a balance sheet. Accordingly, carefully check out your balance sheet report.

A balance sheet lists assets, liabilities and owner funds invested or reinvested. If you don’t see goofy numbers on your balance s

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

heet and your profit and loss statement looks right, you accounting system is probably capturing data in the right way.

Goofy balance sheet numbers include things like a big negative bank account balance, cle

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

rly incorrect accounts receivable or accounts payable balances, and any other accounts with strange names or balances.

Symptom #4: You Get Lots of Adjusting Journal Entries from Your CPA

Many accountants pre

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

pare a handful of end-of-the-year accounting entries for their small business clients. I often do this, for example, when I prepare a small corporation’s or small partnership’s tax returns.

Now don’t get me wrong. P

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

reparing a handful of accounting entries is expected. Especially for amounts you can’t easily calculate—such as tax return depreciation.

If, however, your accountant or bookkeeper is making many other adjustments, y

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

ou should verify that the accountant isn’t adjusting accounts at year-end because you’re not regularly tracking the account as you go through the year.

Heaven help you, for example, if your poor accountant finds him

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

self or herself adjusting your cash accounts (this means you don’t know how much cash you have—which is of course symptom #1 above) or making large adjustments to any other accounts such as inventory.

Large end-of-y

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

ear adjustments means your accounting system means just one thing: The books aren’t up to date with the financial realities of your operation. This lack of up-to-date information, sadly, means you may be flying blind

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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