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Sage wants its customers to be prepared for government financial regulations, and last month they launched a new certification program for the non-profit organizations using their Sage MIP Fund Accounting. The program helps non-profit professionals enhance their skills through continuing professional education (CPE) workshops, each lasting two to three days.

Seminar sessions are web-based, and tout certification in less time and at less cost than alternative programs. There has been a growth in non-profits in North America over the last decade, and the need for certified financial professionals is especially pressing in this economic climate. There are a number of certifications offered. From the high-demand disciplines, there are courses in Accounts Payable, Controller, Financial Reporting, and Senior Accountant. Other options include Budget Analyst, Financial Manager, Procurement, and Payroll, to name a few.

Sage reportedly serves 2.9 million SMBs and non-profits in the US and Canada, so these certification options are a good source of revenue. At the same time, it is a nice gesture to give financial experts a means of increasing their professional value.

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New Edition Offers Improved Ease-of-Use, Streamlined Functionality, Simplified Access to Data, and Includes Many Other Customer-Requested Enhancements

Irvine , CA – Nov 06, 2008 – Sage Software announced today the availability of Sage BusinessWorks 50 Accounting 2009, the latest version of one of the company’s popular business-management solutions for small to medium-sized businesses. Sage BusinessWorks 2009 includes many new time-saving features and enhancements, and is even simpler and easier to use than ever. The 2009 edition offers customer-specific pricing, detailed open credits and deposit tracking, unlimited line items on transactions, and increased sales account entry capacity, in addition to check printing efficiencies, and other time-saving and technical enhancements.

“Sage BusinessWorks 2009 exemplifies the ongoing commitment and focus Sage Software has for producing a superior product,” says Stan Stankowski of Apex Software Group, a Sage BusinessWorks business partner located in Orlando, FL. “I’m especially impressed with the new open credits and deposits functionality, and the new customer-specific pricing feature, which allows you to easily assign different part prices for individual customers. I believe these and the many other new features and enhancements included in Sage BusinessWorks 2009 make it a significant, worthwhile upgrade for existing clients, and a smart choice for new ones.”

Increased Ease-of-Use, More Efficiency, and Greater Flexibility
Sage BusinessWorks 50 Accounting 2009 offers a number of new and improved features that help streamline accounting tasks, make the sales process easier, help companies save time and money during the check printing process, and make servicing and contacting customers even easier. Sage BusinessWorks 2009 includes:

• Customer-specific pricing, which helps eliminate data-entry errors and allows businesses to improve their customer service. Sage BusinessWorks 2009 makes configuring customer-specific pricing easy, by allowing users to import customer part prices and providing tools to copy part prices to other customers.
• Detailed open credits and deposit tracking, which allows users to easily reconcile open credit and deposit balances for customers. Sage BusinessWorks 2009 eliminates confusion by tracking each open credit and deposit as an individual transaction. Additionally, new detail reports help save time during the reconciliation process by displaying all new transactions that affect the open credit or deposit balance. These new, detailed reports also include drill-down capabilities, making researching details about transactions even easier, and helping to reconcile balances more quickly.
• Unlimited line items on quotes, sales orders, and purchase orders, eliminating the need to create multiple transactions for a single order and saving data-entry and reconciliation time.
• Increased sales accounts capacity in the Accounts Receivable and Order Entry modules, so users can enter up to 999 unique sales accounts on each transaction and better track sales.
• Check printing efficiencies that help save time and money. Sage BusinessWorks 2009 can now print regular payroll checks on payroll check stock and Direct Deposit Pay Stubs on plain paper, saving valuable payroll check stock. Sage BusinessWorks 2009 also helps save time by allowing users to print a check register containing a company’s entire payroll run in one procedure.
• Enhanced data-exchange procedures that allow users to export data in a format that they need to easily share customer, vendor, part, and employee data with third-party applications.
• Enhanced hyperlink capabilities that make it even easier to contact customers and vendors. These hyperlinks can be used to easily generate e-mail messages to customers and vendors from the most frequently used tasks.
• Enhanced Microsoft® Vista™ compatibility with Windows® Aero Glass support and an updated comprehensive HTML Help system.

Sage BusinessWorks 50 Accounting
Sage BusinessWorks is a feature-rich, modular-based accounting solution that helps small- to medium-sized businesses increase operating efficiencies through process automation. The solution includes General Ledger, Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable modules; along with cash management, inventory, order entry, payroll, job costing, and utility features. Sage BusinessWorks also offers more than 200 built-in reports with graphical reporting capabilities, plus it seamlessly integrates with other Sage Software applications to create an integrated front-office and back-office business solution that increases productivity and profitability.

Pricing and Availability
Current customers with an active ClientCare Support agreement receive a Sage BusinessWorks 2009 upgrade for no additional fee. For new customers, Sage BusinessWorks 2009 is available through local, authorized Sage BusinessWorks business partners. New single systems that include General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Cash Management modules, plus a one year support contract (includes upgrades, maintenance updates, and 10 technical support cases) start at a suggested list price of $1,694. For additional information, contact the Sage Software Sales Department at 800-477-5700, or visit www.sagebusinessworks.com.

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Accounting systems traditionally store an enormous amount confidential company information with detailed data on company finances and expenses. Transitioning to a newer, untested accounting software platform may make companies reluctant at first. However, with the proper preparation, companies can easily setup accounting software in order to maintain accuracy within their accounting operations and ensure the security of their critical financial data.

There are many precautions and preparations companies can take to ready themselves for this very important endeavor as implementing a new accounting software platform is a big step for any company.

There are many ways to make the transition to a new software platform easy and a lot smoother. Some simple tips include playing around with the software before entering critical data in. This can allow you and your employees to familiarize yourselves with the system in order to be completely confident in what you are doing.

Other tips include setting your company preferences in order to try to have the software adapt to your needs. Also, many software platforms have customizations tools which allow you to further tailor software platforms to your company’s needs, making it much easier to use and conduct business using the new accounting software platform.

Another tip is to ensure all accurate data is entered into the accounting software platform. Make sure critical information such as banking information and company data information is accurate in order to eliminate any discrepancies. Also, synchronize the data to ensure that all employees are accessing any updated information that may be recently input into the software to lower the chance of errors.

Finally, it’s important to realize that nobody will know everything about a new software tool. Ask for help when needed and don’t feel guilty about contacting the provider for support. A lot of time and resources can be saved by going this route.

For more tips on how to smoothly implement your new accounting software, you can read the full article here.

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Accounting Technology has chosen Sikich as a 2008 Technology PaceSetter for Accounting Technology. The magazine awards companies with this nomination yearly. With only 100 organizations selected for this award, it aims to differentiate the top performers from the rest of the pack.

Pacesetters are chosen via different criteria, with leadership and influence within the accounting software industry being a key factor. These factors help recognize exceptional companies and allow them to differentiate themselves from other accounting software providers. Sikich provides a number of different accounting and tax services and provides products and services that serve a number of different mid-market companies.

Sikich was chosen as Pacesetter for 2008 in recognition of its committment to the financial/accounting industry and providing quality products and service to enhance the community.

For more information on this topic, you can read the full article here.

YemenSoft has recently released its newest accounting software product, Onyx-Pro. With its software release based in Yemen, many companies from other countries showed up for this exciting new launch. Companies were able to see a variety of new features and updates to its newest accounting system. With its newest version of its accounting software comes a variety of new features that are aimed at meeting the needs of its customers.

Many new features of this system will be introduced. Some new features include account systems management features and sales and customer management system features. Also, with store management and sales management systems, it should provide greater oversight of company processes.

For more information on this exciting new release, you can read the full article found here.

The release of the new online accounting package offered by Xero should interest many Mac users as it is specifically geared toward improving Mac user experience. Xero is looking to capitalize on the Mac user experience and provide users with an accounting software program that Mac users can enjoy. Xero hopes to improve the experience of inputting accounting and financial information into their computers.

Xero looks to have accomplished what they have set out to do. The design and interface of Xero is very user-friendly, allowing users to easily learn the software. In addition, a number of features and advanced accounting and financial tools make Xero a very useful solution that provides owners with many of the necessary accounting tools they needs. Xero is compatible with a variety of Internet browsers as well as compatible on Mac or PC systems.

For more information on Xero, read the full article found here.

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Accounting is a critically important business process that can make a great difference in the success of a company. Quality accounting software can improve accuracy of a company’s financial data allowing companies to make sound business decisions to promote the overall growth of the company.

Accounting software can provide companies easy data management and reporting tools that make accounting a much enjoyable process especially when it comes time for audits and taxes. Accurate financial and accounting statements can significantly improve business processes by providing much more accurate information on which processes seem to work and which ones are losing money. Accounting Software can play a large role in the growth and expansion of your company.

To read more about this topic, you can find the full article found here.

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MaPa is glad they chose Lorge Accounting Software after doing extensive research and finding Lorge the best fit for its company. Lorge’s Accounting Software has shown to have many benefits for MaPa after implementation of their accounting software solution. Some benefits MaPa has enjoyed are increased security, more flexibility, and better reporting tools to help MaPa stay on top of its business accounting. This has enabled MaPa to be more accurate as well as enabled them to perform a wide variety of functions much more quickly.

Handling multi-currency transactions was a key feature that attracted MaPa to Lorge’s Pastel Evolution accounting software. Due to their business transactions with a number of different countries, the ability to quickly calculate and implement exchange ratios is critically important to its accounting efficiency as adjustments are made automatically. This increased the speed at which accounting could be done while also increased the accuracy of the particular accounting data.

Lorge’s Accounting Solution has provided much more than just accounting features for MaPa. In addition, other business intelligence and reporting tools have enable MaPa to improve in many other sectors of its business. For more on Lorge Pastel Evolution Accounting Software, you can read the full article found here.

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Maintaining accurate and organized financial and accounting records can save you lots of time when it comes time to file taxes. However, many people fail to update their financial records making tax season a nightmare for many.

Implementing a Web based accounting software program can be key to solving many of these problems. Xero Online Accounting Software can help small companies or landlords maintain accurate accounting records. In addition, Xero was designed to allow people with limited accounting backgrounds to use it. This makes accounting much easier for the average person.

To read more about Xero Web Based Accounting, you can read the full article found here.

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Business technology providers continue to improve their software offerings as companies struggle to keep up in the technological race with other accounting software providers. AddonSoftware has announced the release of the version of its Accounting Suite which has updated features of its accounting software. This should help answer the demand its customers has had for updated features.  

The new accounting software tools should provide an enhanced user experience and provide a number of useful features that should provide better company accounting. These new features should improve productivity as well as increase accuracy as companies continue to look for for ways to improve on their existing business processes.

For more information on AddOnSoftware’s enhancements, the full article can be found here.

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