Date Posted: 1/21/2004
ACCPAC Launches Advantage Series 5.2 Project and Job Costing With Integration to Microsoft Project
inage Accounting and Advanced Budgeting
PLEASANTON, Calif., Jan. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ACCPAC International, Inc., a subsidiary of Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA - News), announced today the release of ACCPAC Advantage Series(TM) 5.2 Project and Job Costing, which adds new integration with Microsoft® Project and more flexible accounting, budgeting, and ease-of-use enhancements. Project and Job Costing shares the Web-accessibility features of all ACCPAC Advantage Series accounting modules and delivers the freedom of choice in operating systems and databases that the entire series offers.
Project and Job Costing provides small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) with the tools to manage simple or complex contracts and jobs. This latest release offers:
* Integration with Microsoft Project for improved controls;
* Support for retainage accounting;
* Budgeting capabilities for improved estimating and performance
tracking;
* Ease-of-use enhancements, including color coding for project status,
and;
* Greater security.
Integration with Microsoft Project for improved management controls
Users can integrate ACCPAC Advantage Series Project and Job Costing with Microsoft Project for more control over scheduling with the flexibility to update data in either product. Start and end dates as well as quantities that are entered in Microsoft Project are updated in Project and Job Costing. Users can import or export contracts to and from Project and Job Costing. Synchronization is also supported; newly created projects and resources are synchronized between the products, as are changes to estimates and the task percentage complete status.
Retainage
New support for retainage accounting enables businesses to improve cash flow analysis through accurate accounting of customers' retained amounts in accounts receivable, accounts payable, credit notes or debit notes. This new feature allows users to manage any amounts retained on the original invoice and to automatically invoice as the retained amounts are due to be paid by a customer or to a vendor. Integration with ACCPAC Advantage Series Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable modules provides access to Aged Retainage reports. The reports allow users to print an aged listing that identifies when retainage is due to be invoiced or is overdue.
Budgeting capabilities for improved estimating and performance tracking
Users can now set up budgets for costs and revenues for each contract, project, and category of project. The increased budgeting flexibility assists finance and accounting departments in preparing rolled up budgets, revenue forecasts and a benchmark for project performance.
Ease-of-use enhancements
Enhancements throughout the software are designed to simplify processes, reducing time needed to track details and improving information retrieval for quicker decision processes. Among these features is new color-coding that provides instant status recognition of a project. In addition, the new Adjustments form provides a fast way to revise quantities as well as cost and billing amounts while the software automatically calculates adjustments amounts.
Greater Security
Timecard security can now be set up for each employee enabling system users to maintain their own time card records, securely. Clients will benefit by allowing employees to enter their own time cards, reducing the workload of system and project administrators.
Pricing and Availability
ACCPAC Advantage Series 5.2 Project and Job Costing is available from ACCPAC Solution Providers worldwide at an SRP of $2,000 USD. For more information or the name of an ACCPAC Solution Provider, call ACCPAC at 1-800-945-8007 or visit www.accpac.com.
About ACCPAC
ACCPAC International, Inc., a subsidiary of Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA - News), provides small and mid-size businesses a broad range of end-to-end business management applications designed to enhance customers' competitive advantage. Product lines include ACCPAC CRM(TM), ACCPAC CRM SalesTeam(TM), ACCPAC Advantage Series(TM), ACCPAC Pro Series(TM), ACCPAC HR Series(TM), ACCPAC Business Analysis Suite(TM), ACCPAC eTransact®, ACCPAC Exchange(TM), ACCPAC Warehouse Management System(TM), ACCPAC epos(TM), ACCPAC Insight(TM), Simply Accounting®, FAXserve®, and ACCPAC Messenger(TM).
Based in Pleasanton, Calif., USA, with offices in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, the Middle East, the Netherlands, South Africa, Southeast Asia and the United Kingdom, ACCPAC has more than 500,000 customers and more than 7,000 channel partners in more than 130 countries worldwide. For more information about ACCPAC and our products, call 1-800-945-8007 in North America, or visit ACCPAC at www.accpac.com.
ACCPAC, the ACCPAC logo, and the ACCPAC product names set forth above are registered trademarks or trademarks of ACCPAC International, Inc. in the United States, and other countries. All other marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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Source: ACCPAC International, Inc.
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