Sage Accpac Accounting Software Vancouver Blog – Unisoft

As the scale of your business grows and you begin to accumulate more and more valuable financial information in your ledgers and reports, it is not uncommon to spend some time thinking about the security of your system. Who has access to your information? How secure are the programs that store your data?  What sort of encryption is being used for the online aspects of your accounting?

These are all great questions, and the answers can lead to some startling revelations. If you found yourself with some less than confident responses to any of the questions above, it might be time to make the leap to a professional accounting solution like the Sage 300 ERP Accpac system.

The latest version of the Sage 300 ERP Accpac accounting system communicates all of its data through Transport Layer Security (TLS). This goes a long way in ensuring no one is looking over your shoulder and peering in on any of the confidential information that moves throughout your network. It also allows your business and its employees the flexibility to access private information from home, the office or on the road without worrying about the risks of exposing valuable company data to malicious parties.

Of course safe practices and informed employees still go a long way in making any company information safe but the Sage 300 ERP Accpac accounting system can give you the security you need… not to mention a little peace of mind.

It’s that time again. Today marks the day that British Columbia’s provincial government will unveil the 2012-2013 budget. Paired with this annual report, will be the news of B.C.’s newest holiday, a Christy Clark led initiative titled ‘Family Day’ that is estimated to cost small business owners an average of $1135 in labor costs alone.

While this is a difficult burden to bear for any small business owner, using the budget feature through your Sage 300 ERP Accpac system can lighten the load. Easy to create and even easier to use, budgets in your Sage 300 ERP Accpac system will let you compare performance numbers, forecast numbers for up to 20 years in advance, and develop bench marks that you can use to develop long-term financial strategies.

With the budget feature in Sage 300 ERP Accpac system working for you, news from the B.C. government about a new holiday might just mean a day off instead of a day spent worrying about the budget.

Sage Software has struggled with it’s brand name in North America for far too long. Originally known as Best Software in North America, it was renamed Sage Software like it’s partent company The Sage Group, plc, based in the UK, in 2007. Supporting more than 3.2 million customers in the US and Canada, Sage North America focuses on Small and midsized businesses with a sincere customer focus.

In an attempt to streghten the Sage brand name in North America, Sage is in the process of making changes to many of their product names. Many of the names we know oh so well will be changed to numbers. For example, Sage Simply Accounting will become Sage 50 Accounting. This stratigic move will help to lift the Sage brand awareness to the same level as it is in the Europe.

As Sage changes the Sage ERP Accpac brand name to Sage 300 ERP they will also transition the edition numbers 100, 200 and 500 to named editions Standard, Advanced and Premium respectivliey.

• Sage ERP Accpac 100 is becoming Sage 300 Standard ERP
• Sage ERP Accpac 200 is becoming Sage 300 Advanced ERP
• Sage ERP Accpac 500 is becoming Sage 300 Premium ERP

Sage Abra HRMS will become Sage HRMS.

SageCRM will become Sage CRM.

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HR Actions for Sage HRMS is helps you improve productivity, expand visibility and keep better records.

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A single clikc saves data to Sage HRMS and creates a history.

Keep better records with an online file cabinet, a detailed audit trail and a powerfull search tool.

For more information click here or contact Scott – Scott@Unisoft.net or 604-926-3398.

Overview
This course will provide the information participants need to design powerful and sophisticated financial reports using the Sage Accpac General Ledger Financial Reporter Utility. Students will learn how to lay out a financial statement, use wildcards to reference accounts and establish criteria to select the appropriate information for reports. Students will practice the many functions of the FR module. Emphasis will be placed on showing students how they can take the standard shipped financial statements and turn them into their own customized reports.

Prerequisite: Working knowledge of ACCPAC General Ledger. Basic knowledge of Excel.

This is an in-class seminar delivered interactively. Students have ample opportunity to deal with case studies in the computer lab.

Topics covered include:

• Overview of Financial Reporter
• Using the Toolbar Commands
• Understanding Columns and Rows
• Formatting and Printing Financial Statements
• Modifying Existing Reports
• Creating Basic reports
• Creating Complex Reports
• Using Financial Reporter to extract data from Accpac into Excel templates and worksheets

Fee includes a course manual prepared by Ashton College which contains comprehensive instructions and thorough exercises that assist the learning process in class, and act as a valuable resource after the class.

At the end of the course, participants will be issued with a Certificate of Attendance.

Upgrading to Sage CRM V7.1 will allow you to benefit from additional features such as:

• Sage CRM Interactive Dashboard for users to manage their business, priorities and key accounts from a single screen
- Connect multiple gadgets on a single dashboard for a more dynamic and complete view of your customer data
- Flexible gadget sizing enables users to re-position and re-size gadgets on their dashboard
- Tailored company dashboards for key accounts can be easily created for focused account management
- Custom dashboards can be easily created by users and configured with the key data they want to view

• New Sage CRM Report Charts for even better insight on business performance
– Incorporation of new FusionCharts 3.2 into reporting and dashboard areas
– Visual re-vamp which blends in nicely with current look and feel of Sage CRM
– Charts with rotating, slicing and printing options available
– Configurable, customizable and skin-able FusionCharts styles, fonts, backgrounds and legends

• Sage CRM Total Campaign Management with new marketing workflow and the ability to clone your most successful campaigns

• Sage CRM for iPhone® so you can update and access real-time customer information, view customer cases and manage opportunities and leads on the move.

• Support for Microsoft® Office 2010 so you can share your Outlook® contacts, calendar, appointments and tasks with SageCRM.com v7.1

If you are interested in upgrading to SageCRM Version 7.1 please contact Scott at Scott@Unisoft.net or 1-888-UNISOFT. For more Sage CRM resources please visit the Sage CRM ecosystem at www.sagecrm.com.

Please do not hesitate to contact us regarding your upgrade. Scott@Unisoft.net or 1-888-UNISOFT

If your organization is like most, you probably struggle to get a handle on all your business information. The information you have isn’t bad but there are higher volumes and more information sources than ever—and it’s scattered in silos across your organization. Pulling this information together so the right people can access it at the right time, in the right format, and with the right level of security is a challenge.

On-Demand Webcast:

Information, Please: How ERP Can Transform Information Into Business Success

Learn why integration is the critical element for business intelligence and how ERP can help improve your operations, enhance decision making, and give you a competitive advantage. Register now to view an on-demand webcast from Sage, a leading developer of ERP solutions including Sage ERP Accpac. You’ll learn how to:

• Ensure information quality and availability so you can improve decision making across your organization.
• Look for the practical features and core functionality that enables an ERP solution to meet your information requirements.
• Extract the maximum value out of today’s ERP solutions to improve process efficiency, reduce costs, and drive revenue.

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Revenue and Expense Deferrals for Sage ERP Accpac helps companies with the amortization of maintenance and service related contract revenue and expense amounts over the life of the contract. Companies get the advantage of compliance with the Public Company Accounting and Investor Protection Act of 2002 (also known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002). Although not specifically covered under the Act, non-public entities are also finding that bankers, investors, and acquisition candidates are now conditioned to expect increased transparency and real-time disclosure, effectively placing a greater accounting and reporting burden on companies who are not legally obligated to comply with the Act. Revenue and Expense Deferrals helps companies with meeting these additional demands.

Revenue & Expense Deferrals requires Sage ERP Accpac Transaction Analysis and Optional Fields Creator module to be installed.

Interested in a demonstation?  Please email Scott@Unisoft.net.

To successfully install your copy of Sage Simply Accounting 2012, please make note of your Account ID; it will be required during the installation process.

For additional installation resources and step-by-step tutorials, please visit:

Sage Simply Accounting 2012 – Installation

Sage Simply Accounting 2012 – How To Videos

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