Description
Ease of Use
Reckon Accounts Enterprise continues a long-standing reputation as being simple to use, and was developed for business owners, managers and accountants with even the most limited IT knowledge. The software incorporates sophisticated technology and an ever-expanding range of functionality.
More than $1 billion has gone into developing the product range aiming to ensure that it includes everything users need to perform their tasks with the added convenience of doing them with ease, speed and accuracy. The new home page design makes navigating the software elementary by ensuring virtually every function is no more than two mouse clicks away.
Reckon Accounts Enterprise’s characteristics are dedicated to improving the user experience. For example, transaction recall features allow the software to learn intuitively along the way, saving time while minimising mistakes. Updated company audit features enable business owners and accountants to easily identify errors and correct their mis-postings. The software’s portable company file format, the ability to set a dividing date and create an accountant’s copy, make it straightforward for accountants to work on client files and make adjustments even while the software is still being used by the client.
Quickly view your business performance using the Company Snapshot tool. Customisable fields and graphs allow you to design a ‘snapshot’ that presents the most significant information that impacts your business decisions – with the ability to drill down into transaction, customer or supplier details.
Scalability
Reckon Accounts Enterprise is as powerful and practical for one user as it is for thirty.
Available 1, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 30-user packages, the software enables simultaneous access to the same company file by up to 30 individuals. This enables different stakeholders on and off-site to enter data specific to their areas of responsibility, increasing the efficiency of the business. Additional licenses can also be issued so access to, for example a 30-user version, is not restricted to 30 specific individuals.
Reporting
QuickBooks Enterprise users have more than 100 reports and graphs at their disposal. Each is designed to simplify a wide range of business and compliance activities as well as making it easier to work with your accountant.
All reports can be customised to suit individual user and company preferences and if desired, built from scratch while specific transactional details in each report can be drilled into and identified with just a few clicks.
The software’s reports centre interface not only improves access to important company reporting, but gives clearer instructions on the purpose of individual reports and how to modify each to suit individual company preferences.
One of the most valuable tools for any business is the Financial Statement Designer within Reckon Accounts Enterprise. The program saves time in preparing balance sheets, income statements, financial ratios, cash flow statements and many more. The Financial Statement Designer comes with more than 20 customisable layout styles plus alerts, title pages, notes and compilation letters can all be created and edited to the user’s liking.
In addition, the software includes a variety of industry-specific reports such as those for contractors, retailers, manufacturers and wholesalers. The list of reports is endless. A few examples are job costs, profit and loss, estimates, unpaid bills, and item profitability.
Reckon Accounts Enterprise is ideal for large businesses, particularly those with multiple locations. The software’s multi-site and multi-company reports connect locations and remote workers with ease. Parent companies and head offices can also combine reports to access data from subsidiaries, divisions or branches.
Security
With larger businesses in mind, Reckon Accounts Enterprise manages users based on their specific roles within the organisation. Users are divided into Lists, e.g. John Smith and Roles, for instance, payroll officer. Set up is easy, simple to maintain and can be changed at any time by the administrator.
Previously, the software contained multiple security sections each of which was permitted only one password. The complications were numerous: multiple staff with different jobs required individual passwords, multiple staff with the same job all needed to remember a common password, and for businesses with staff needing access to different sections of the software, each required multiple passwords.
Now, access to specific areas within Reckon Accounts Enterprise is simplified by determining by the user’s role. For example, a sales manager can be set up to access pricing and inventory but not payroll. Once the role has been established, it can be applied to all sales managers. Each individual needs only to remember their individual login details, which also provides the business operator with improved accountability and security.
In addition, the businesses’ home page is customisable with a company preferences component to hide Accounts Balances from that page. This offers additional security while preventing balances from being displayed to others and it is unique to Reckon Accounts Enterprise.