Monday, September 21, 2009

Sage ACCPAC - Account Receivable

With the Accounts Receivable software, you can manage your customers and fine-tune customer relations by keeping track of important sales information and outstanding balances. Accounts Receivable allows you to easily apply cash to outstanding invoices and create recurring charges for quick invoicing of monthly charges. Our Accounts Receivable software is also fully integrated with Bank Services, for complete bank reconciliation.

  • Create summary or detailed invoices using the item price list and calculate taxes on a summary or line-by-line basis.
  • Organize customer records quickly and easily, and create an unlimited number of ship-to locations for each customer.
  • Flag customer records as inactive when you wish to discontinue regular use but want to retain the record in the system for historical and reporting purposes.
    Drill down from General Ledger transaction history to Accounts Receivab
  • e transactions and then to originating Order Entry transactions.
  • Import transactions from other applications.
  • Schedule any number of recurring charge invoices for fast invoicing of monthly charges, and update recurring charges automatically by amount or percentage.
  • Create adjustment batches automatically to write off small account or transaction balances, and choose whether to charge interest on overdue balances or individual invoices.
  • Specify the debit and credit amounts for each detail entered in Adjustment Entry and for miscellaneous adjustments in Receipt Entry.
  • Track sales statistics for each salesperson.
  • Drill down from the customer's transactions and receipts in Customer Activity to the originating transactions and receipts.
  • Track, calculate, and automatically retain a portion of an invoice to handle common billing practices in the construction industry.
  • Print and review complete transaction details, including the details of receipts and adjustments applied to transactions, and keep a complete transaction history.
  • View your customer receipts by bank range, customer range, receipt status, transaction type, date range, year and period range, and receipt number range.
  • Perform on-screen aging and preview customer transactions.
  • Review up-to-the-minute information including current balance, last activities and complete transaction details, and detailed statistics for each customer account.
  • Send statements and invoices to your customer's billing address, customer's e-mail address, or contact's e-mail address.
  • Create custom invoices, statements, and deposit slips.
  • Set up standard e-mail messages you can automatically send to your customers with their documents.
  • Create a new customer and ship-to location when entering an invoice.
  • Print aged Trial Balance, Overdue Receivables, Customer Transactions, Customer List and Statistics, and General Ledger transaction reports using sorting and selection options to focus on desired transactions.

AR Inquiry
Included with the Accounts Receivable software, the AR Inquiry module allows you to manage receivables with remarkable agility and intelligence and reinvest cash through your business faster with optimized collections.

  • Concentrate your efforts on clients who fit specific criteria that you define and prioritize using the Customer Filter, such as days overdue, dollars over limit, call back date, and more.
  • Gain a single point of reference for all of your customer details through Customer Inquiry, and address customer questions during live calls.
  • Find specific AR documents such as an AR Invoice, based on the document number alone with the AR Document Inquiry. It's not necessary to know the customer number on the document-a useful feature when you're in a hurry.
  • Manage your receipts and get more choices to manage your disbursements.
Customer Number Change
  • Included with Accounts Receivable software, Customer Number Change provides a simple way to quickly and easily change, combine, or copy your important business data.
  • Efficiently replace outdated information with a few keystrokes to remain current with elements critical to your business.
  • Ease system management by deleting, maintaining, and renumbering your customer numbers.
  • Import multiple changes, copy, and combine from one external file.
  • Access multiple change features with the easy-to-use toolbar buttons.
  • Use Change by Example to make multiple changes from one example entry.
  • Works with Accounts Receivable, Inventory Control, Purchase Orders, Bank Services, Tax Services, Serialized Inventory, Lot Tracking, Sales Analysis, Project and Job Costing.

Standard Report Samples

  • Aged Trial Balance
  • Batch Listing
  • Batch Status
  • Customer Transactions
  • Deposit Slips
  • General Ledger Transactions
  • Invoices
  • Item Sales History
  • Posting Journals

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Sage ACCPAC – General Ledger

The General Ledger module is the foundation of your accounting system, with flexibility that meets the current and future financial management requirements of organizations of all types and sizes. It provides a robust feature set designed to handle your most demanding budgeting and processing needs. General Ledger fully integrates with all modules and is the key to maximizing the efficiency and accuracy of your financial data.

General Ledger Capabilities


  • Create alphanumeric account numbers as long as 45 characters.
  • Flag General Ledger accounts as inactive to stop using them, but retain them in the system for historical and reporting purposes.
  • Maintain separate periods for adjusting and closing entries.
  • Assign different retained earnings accounts to different account segments.
  • Set up and schedule recurring journal entries for transactions that are processed on a regular basis.
  • Drill down to the originating journal entry and transaction from transaction history.
  • Lock budgets to prevent unauthorized changes.
  • Limit the batches shown in the Batch List window to only those from a single sub-ledger.
  • Automatically create budgets using prior year information or choose from seven other computation methods.
  • Create analytical reports, spreadsheets, graphs, and charts, and update budgets automatically through full integration with Microsoft® Excel.
  • Produce fast, flexible, customized financial statements through full integration with Microsoft® Excel.
  • Print consolidated statements or statements for any accounting division represented by an account number segment code.
  • Auto-reverse entries to eliminate manual accrual tracking and specify the period for the reversal.
  • Reverse a posted transaction.
  • Drill down from an unposted journal entry to the originating transaction.

Account Code Change
Included with the General Ledger module, Account Code Change provides a simple way to quickly and easily change, combine, or copy your important business data. Efficiently replace outdated information with a few keystrokes to remain current with elements critical to your business. Account Code Change also includes the ability to modify segment delimiters and the account segment length.

  • Ease system management by deleting, maintaining, and renumbering your GL account numbers.
  • Import multiple changes, copy, and combine from one external file.
  • Access multiple change features with the easy-to-use toolbar buttons.
  • Use Change by Example to make multiple changes from one example entry.
  • Works with General Ledger, GL Security, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Inventory Control, Order Entry, Purchase Orders, Project and Job Costing, Common Services, U.S./Canadian Payroll.

G/L Security
Included with the General Ledger module, the G/L Security module enables organizations to control which users can view or use certain general ledger accounts based on segment validation in G/L Security settings.

  • Control access to any account in your general ledger by segment. This allows you to limit user activity to a prescribed set of accounts, blocking sensitive or confidential accounts from being seen or changed.
  • Tailor access to accounts for each Sage Accpac user or group of users.
    Set access rights for single or multi-segment validation or for single or multiple account validation.
  • Restrict users from viewing batches containing accounts from which they are prohibited.
    Restrict users to adding accounts only to segments to which they have access.
  • Add or remove user restrictions at any time in response to staffing changes, changes to your account structure, or as security concerns arise.
    Restrict financial reports only to valid accounts.

Standard Reports

  • Batch Listing
  • Batch Status
  • Chart of Accounts
  • Comparative Balance Sheets
  • General Ledger Options
  • General Ledger Transactions Listing
  • Income Statements
  • Posting Journals
  • Trial Balance