ADP Offers Accountants the Opportunity to Provide Value-Added Services to Clients.

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ROSELAND, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 2000

ADP's Accountant Advantage Program Provides Accountants

with Incentive-Based Business Programs and Service Guarantee

Building upon its strong relationships with both the accountant community and small businesses, Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP(R)) Emerging Business Services (EBS) today announced Accountant Advantage(SM). This unique referral program offers accountants a way to earn their choice of different valuable business rewards while giving their own clients the opportunity to benefit from ADP's comprehensive suite of payroll, human resources and benefits administration solutions.

Accountant Advantage is designed to help ADP reach out to accounting firms and offer them the opportunity to market ADP' s outsourcing solutions to their small business clients. This turnkey program makes it easy for accountants to enroll and convenient for them to participate on an ongoing basis. ADP provides concise quarterly reports to track the services delivered to participating accountants' referred clients. The program is flexibly designed to meet the needs of accountants with different business requirements. Participating accountants can choose the type of rewards earned; including online Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits along with access to other educational and business growth opportunities.

&uot;Accountant Advantage is a unique program that will allow us to strengthen existing relationships with the accountant community and build new relationships with their small business clients,&uot; remarked Bud Angelus, president, ADP Emerging Business Services. &uot;A key feature of Accountant Advantage is the level of personalized feedback we will be giving to each and every accountant and their ability to choose the type of referral reward that is best for them.&uot;

How ADP Accountant Advantage Works

The Accountant Advantage Program, developed to stimulate business for both accountants and ADP, is backed by ADP's World Class Service commitment. Unprecedented in the industry, ADP offers a full satisfaction guarantee to accountants and their clients by refunding the expenditures of participants who are not completely satisfied with ADP's level of service.

The Accountant Advantage Program additionally benefits small and emerging businesses by allowing referred clients to try a wide range of ADP outsourcing solutions such as direct deposit and new hire reporting on a free trial basis. If a referral decides to outsource to ADP, the accountant partner will receive rewards on a quarterly basis. Accountants can provide referrals to ADP by toll-free call, business reply mail, fax, e-mail or over the Internet.

&uot;ADP's Accountant Advantage Program is an innovative way for me to offer value-added services to clients that we previously had not been able to provide,&uot; said Bruce Donohue, CPA, Proprietor. &uot;This program demonstrates that ADP is committed to working with the accountant community, helping us to enhance our client service and to generate additional revenue, ensuring a situation where everyone wins.&uot;

As the world's leading provider of outsourced payroll, human resources and benefits administration services, ADP Emerging Business Services currently serves more than 360,000 small and emerging business clients by offering administration solutions that help staff, manage, pay and retain employees at companies with less than 100 employees.

To find out more about the Accountant Advantage program call ADP at 1-877-CPA-9649, or visit www.ebs.adp.com.

About ADP

ADP (NYSE:AUD), is one of the largest independent computing services firms in the world with over $5 billion in revenues and over 450,000 clients. ADP provides computerized transaction processing, data communications, software, and information services to companies in virtually every industry. ADP Employer Services is the world's leading provider of payroll services and human resource administration systems. It offers a comprehensive range of benefits, payroll and business tax deposit and reporting, time and labor management, unemployment compensation management and retirement planning services.

In addition, ADP provides securities transaction processing and investor communications services to the brokerage and financial communities; industry-specific computing and consulting services to auto and truck dealers; and computerized, automated auto-repair estimating and auto parts availability services to the auto-repair industry.

For more information about ADP, or to contact a local ADP sales office, reach us at 1-800-225-5237, Extension 5091 or visit our Web site at www.adp.com.