Sage Accpac Accounting Software Vancouver Blog – Unisoft

With the release of Sage Accpac ERP v5.6, Accpac is now officially support Windows 7 by Sage Software.  If your planning your Windows 7 upgrade shortly make sure to plan to upgrade your accounting software to ensure it is compatible.

Some other important releases by Sage Accpac for compatibility:

• Excel 2007 and Financial Reporter: Sage Accpac ERP v5.3b GL Service Pack 2 or v5.4A – KB ARTICLE
• Sage Accpac ERP and Windows Vista Compatibility: System Manager 5.4A SP3 and all the latest 5.4A service packs – here is the check List

Sage will be releasing a US Payroll Tax update for Sage Accpac ERP. This will be availble January 28th, 2010.  For more information regarding the payroll tax update please contact Unisoft at 604-926-3398.

References:

http://support.accpac.com/support/payroll_ship_dates.asp

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The Sage Accpac Version 5.6 release can be summed up by improved performance and productivity enabling you to accomplish more tasks in less time. The highlights of the upgrade:

• Sage Accpac Intelligence: a new easy to use business intelligence and reporting tool
• Support for new IT infrastructure including virtualization and Windows 7
• Enhanced cash flow and integrated customer inquiry tool (originally AR inquiry) 
• Improved inventory mangement 
• Bank Reconciliation has been completely redesigned 
• New functionality in Payroll to descrease penalties and fees 
• More user requested enhancements submitted via sageaccpac.com/feedback

Sage Accpac V5.5 & V5.6

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Sage Accpac HRMS is a market leader among human resource management solutions and it’s out of the box intuitive integration with Sage Accpac provides control over human resource management and payroll processes.  Sage Accpac HRMS helps you to provide accurate and timely payroll, maintain and view all types of employee information, stay compliant with Canadian HR requirements and positively impact employee satisfaction and retention while limiting liability. 

Introduction to Sage Accpac HRMS Video

Integration with Payroll:

            The integration between Sage Accpac Payroll and Accpac HRMS allows you to manage employee details in Accpac HRMS and automatically update their information in Sage Accpac Payroll.   This includes the ability to create, edit (more…)

When integrated with Sage Accpac ERP, Norming Asset Management is “a powerful and complete asset management solution”.  Asset Management is a combination of management, financials, economic, engineering, operational and best practices applied to physical assets with an objective of providing the required level of services in the most cost effective manner.  Due to increased demands from new regulations and policies an asset management system could assist in facilitating data and the financial planning resulting in a positive institutional change to community assets management. Subsequently leading to:

1. improved services and performances,

2. more accurate financial planning,

3. reduces life cycle costs & expenditures

4. and increased returns on investments.

Norming Asset Management is IFRS compliant (revaluation, impairment, assessments, valuing foreign currency nonmonetary items, restatement of property) and fully integrates with Sage Accpac (SM GL, AP, IC, AR, & PO).

Let us share with you the Principals of Asset Management, inventory tools, financial requirements, useful templates and how to implement an Asset Management Plan.

Sources:
Norming Asset Management

Recently we added two new videos to our video section on our site:

What’s New in Sage Accapc ERP 5.5 Fiancials?

This video basically covers System Manager, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Bank/Tax Services.

What’s New in Sage Accpac ERP 5.5 Operations?

Operations suite video shows thew new features in Order Entry, Inventory Control and Purchase Order as well as the improved integration of these modules with PJC, AP and AR.

Overall the Sage Accpac v5.5 release is a good move in the right direction for Sage Accpac, it was part of the Sage Accpac Extended Enterprise Suite which is essentially a complete business software solutions including ERP (accounting) and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) along with some analytical dashboards.  Also, a number of optional modules (AR Inquiry, Customer Number Change, etc.) purchased separtely before are now part of the suite if you purchase the associated core modules.

Using Excel to retrieve sales information from Sage Accpac is quite simple and powerful.  In both the Order Entry and Inventory Control Modules there is a table that includes sales statistics. ICSTATI is the name of the table that includes the sales details for the inventory module. Essentially this is is a table that includes records per accounting period for the quantity sold, sales amount, return amounts and cost of goods sold.  By importing this table into Excel you can easily create a pivot table/report that shows your net sales (sales – returns) for a range of periods and/or years as shown below.

Sales by Period for 2009/2010

Preparing such reports can be accomplished with the help of our consultants, 604-926-3398.

New Sage Accpac ERP and CRM webcasts were released on unisoft’s website. Unisoft will be adding more webcasts on an ongoing basis so make sure to check back often.  There will be webcasts focusing severa categories.  Current Sage Accpac ERP and CRM users will be provided with webcasts on tips and tricks on how to use more of their business software and accounting system. There will also be a section for users on the new features in each version to keep you up to date on the lastest product developments. Finally, there will be a general business level section for managers and desicion makers to see how ERP and CRM software systems can help advance their business.