Sage Accpac Accounting Software Vancouver Blog – Unisoft

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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

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

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.

Take advantage of the benefits of your software assurance!  Version 5.4 of Sage Accpac ERP was released more than a year ago and some clients are still in Version 5.3 or even 5.2.  267 new features distributed across all the modules have been added and if you are still in an older version, then you are missing out on these benefits.  Most importantly, the older your version, the more time we may need to spend converting your data, so while you are no doubt almost always busy we still recommend upgrading during you slow season if it is at all possible.

Examples include:

Accounts Receivable –  Keep track of your client’s credit card information in a safe and secure place!

Accounts Payable – Specify the method of payment for documents within payment entry.

Order Entry – Inquire on sales orders by customer based on order status.

Purchase Order – Automatically post Accounts Payable batches created from Purchase Orders.

The list certainly goes on and on.  Remember, new features were developed based on client requests to Sage Accpac’s development team!

Call us today to book your upgrade date. 

customer.care@unisoft.net
604-926-3398

Recently reviewed by The CPA Technology Advisor the 200 edition of Sage Accpac ERP 5.4 received 5 stars out of a possible 5.  The review is mid-range accounting systems and bases it’s assement on 6 categories:

1. Ease of Use/Transaction Entry – 5/5
2. Modules & Notable Features - 5/5
3. Integration/Import/Export – 5/5
4. Reporting – 5/5
5. Support/Training/Help System – 5/5
6. Relative Value – 5/5

Sage Accpac ERP got 5/5 for every category which is no surprise to Unisoft, an organization that has been dealing with accouting systems since 1989. One notable part of the review was the relative value where they stated that:

“Sage Accpac 200 ERP is an excellent product for companies that have outgrown their current software. The scalability of Sage Accpac with its three versions means that an investment in the product today will easily pay for itself over time.”

This is outstanding considering the other systems it was compared to including QuickBooks.  It also goes back to my article I wrote about outgrowing your current accounting system and moving to Sage Accpac as it is extremely scalable and according to this review, worth it’s value.

Unisoft is asked quite frequently what the is the difference between the Sage Accpac ERP editions (100, 200 and 500)  is, so here is a table outlining all the differences. Bolded text represent the major differences to make it easier on the eye. The main difference that ultimately determines the edition fit for the user is the number of users for the system.

Today TPAC (Third Party Advantage Conference) 2007 started today with the preconference. Unisoft attended Norming Software Intl training sessions on Norming eTimesheet and Norming Asset Management. Norming Software Intl is based in Beigjing and has produced a number of third party products that integrate with Sage Accpac ERP. 

Norming eTimesheet is a web based job planning, time and leave tracking, expense reporting and billing software suite that the fully integrates with Sage Accpac ERP. It also integrates with almost any other accounting system through it’s integration component. The technology is built on Microsoft’s .NET framework and has can use a number of database engines including MS SQL, Pervasive and Oracle. We look forward to hearing more from the Norming team. This was a great start to the Sage Accpac third party products and really shows the depth and flexibilty that can be achieved Sage Accpac ERP trhough the third party solutions giving business owners a complete end-to-end ERP system.  

Unisoft will be attending the Sage Accpac third party conference or formally Third Party Advantage Conference (TPAC) from August 26th to 28th.  TPAC is a conference showcasing thrid party products that work with Sage Accpac ERP. The conference was founded in 2003 after the AOC, the old Third Party conference was discontinued.  All the major Sage Accpac third party developers will be there and will be a good time for Unisoft to get up to date on all their latest technologies and developments. There will be training sessions and exhibitions that will allow Unisoft to help find the best products to help improve our customers business systems. We will be posting back here after the Conference to give a quick summary of what of the Accpac conference.