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
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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.
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 Read the rest of this entry »
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).
Supports various deprecation methods
Straight Line
Declining Balance
Sum-of-Year-Digits
Units of Production
Us deprecation rules
Asset Leasing
Set up lease rates for assets
Maintain lease contract and billing schedule
Automatically recognize lease revenue
Create AR invoice for lease billing transaction
Track asset lease history and billing schedule
Asset Tracking
Print asset label with barcode
Interface with barcode scanner
Update the asset status and location with scanner
Track asset assignment and return with employee
Schedule asset assignment
Asset Inquiry and Reporting
Drill down from GL, AR, AP to asset transactions
Search asset by category, group, cost center or location
Complete and up-to-date asset information
Review asset activities and original transaction
Check component assets of master asset
Complete fixed asset schedule reports
Let us share with you the Principals of Asset Management, inventory tools, financial requirements, useful templates and how to implement an Asset Management Plan.
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.
This is just a highlight of 2 of the many new features Sage Accpac ERP 5.5. It is also important to note there was a large effort to improve performance in the new release.
Drill Down to Quantities from Order Entry Screen
To all order entry transaction screens there is now the ability to drill down for each item to find out what is on sales order, which sales orders have quantities commited and what is on purchase order with associated expected arrival date. Previously Sage Accpac this was quite a task to retrieve this type of information for order entry clerk and now it can be done with the click of a button.
General Ledger Account Rollup
In the GL module you can now create rollup accounts that allow you to “rollup” account balances from child accounts into a parent account. For example you can setup a your sales accounts 4000, 4000-100 and 4000-200 and then rollup the balance from the 4000-100 and 4000-200 into the 4000 account balance. Previously this kind of information was obtained through the Financial Reporter in your financial reports. It can be now be simply setup through your GL chart of accounts.
The customer event for Sage Accpac 5.5 and Sage CRM 6.1 was held today at the head quarters for Sage Software’s Sage Accpac. They gave a good mix of product demonstrations of the new features in Sage Accpac and Sage CRM as well as higher level business discussion on the value these products can bring to a business. The theme of Laurie Schultz’s team focused on feedback from customers to improve the product is definitely started to show both in the products as well as the focus of the staff. Overall it was an excellent event for customers to see the value in upgrading their software to take advantage of the new features and free of charge modules.
If you weren’t able to attend the event either contact us from a product demonstration of the new features or check back on our website as Unisoft will be posting videos on “What’s New in Sage CRM and Sage Accpac?”
Unisoft (Vancouver) has started this new blog to post updates on Sage ACCPAC products including the various services we provide: CRM, data repair, consulting, training, report design, customization, Microsoft networking and more.
