Highlights

• Flexible account structure.
• Powerful budgeting capabilities.
• Extensive comparative and historical data.
• Financial reporting.
• Multicurrency support using the add-on Multicurrency module.
• Ability to drill down to originating transaction in other modules.
• Integrates with Microsoft Office.
• Web-based or traditional Accpac desktop interface.

Flexible Account Structure and Account Processing

• Create alphanumeric account numbers as long as 45 characters.
• Use segments to represent cost centers, departments and divisions. *
• Define and use all the optional fields and values you require within your General Ledger. ***
• Flag general ledger accounts as inactive to stop using them, but retain them in the system for historical and reporting purposes.
• Tailor your processing needs through high-level control over transaction entry, subledger batch editing, listing and posting.
• Post transactions provisionally to the general ledger to view the effect on financial statements.
• Post transactions to any past year for which you maintain data.
• Consolidate transactions for selected accounts during posting, or consolidate on an as-needed basis.
• Enter transactions from an Internet browser.
• Allocate an account balance to multiple accounts using specified percentages.
• Maintain separate periods for adjusting and closing entries.
• Assign different retained earnings accounts to different account segments.
• Allocate the balance of an account to other accounts by account balance or account quantity such as square footage.
• Post transactions from multiple subledgers to a single control account.
• Drill down to the originating journal entry and transaction from transaction history.
• Set up and schedule recurring journal entries for transactions that you process on a regular basis.
• Drill down from unposted transactions to originating subledger transactions.
• Use the Reminder List capabilities in System Manager to remind staff to process recurring entries.
• Maintain quantities for each General Ledger account.

Powerful Budgeting Features

• Store different sets of budget figures to project future needs and compare projections. *
• Lock periods to prevent unauthorized changes.
• Automatically create budgets using prior-year information, or choose from seven other computation methods.

Integration With Microsoft Office

• Create analytical reports, graphs and charts in Microsoft Excel using information from General Ledger.
• Update budgets automatically from Microsoft Excel.
• Create spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel showing actuals, budgeted and variance.
• Design reports in Microsoft Access to analyze data.
• Create Microsoft PowerPoint presentations with continually updated account information.

Powerful, Customizable Financial Reporting

• Integrate powerful financial diagnostic and strategic analysis tools with Accpac CFO.
• Use the flexibility of Microsoft Excel and the Accpac Financial Reporter to produce financial statements.
• Print consolidated statements, or print statements for any accounting division represented by an account number segment code.
• Run provisional reports for a financial snapshot prior to posting.
• Create a separate worksheet for each code in a specific segment to view financial information specific to each segment code.
• Produce monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual comparative statements with any number of columns.
• Send financial statements via e-mail.
• Print financial statements by running Sage Accpac ERP on a company intranet or using the Internet from any company location.

Multicurrency Support Using the Add-On Multicurrency Module

• Enter, import and post transactions in all the currencies you use. General Ledger maintains functional currency balances as well as balances of all other account currencies.
• Automatically revalue selected accounts as exchange rates fluctuate.
• Use an unlimited number of currencies for each General Ledger account.

Data Entry Made Easy

• Specify non-monetary amounts in journal entries, such as square feet and number of employees.
• Auto-reverse entries to eliminate manual tracking of accruals.
• Use the advanced macro facility to automate repetitive procedures such as batch processing, month-end processing and printing reports.
• Use the segment validation tables to reduce data entry errors.

Investment Protection Plan

• Easily upgrade from any version of Sage Accpac ERP or from Accpac Plus.

* Features vary by product edition.

** Multicurrency is an add-on module.

*** Transaction Analysis and Optional Field Creator is an add-on module.