atACC 2.7 Accounting and Inventory Package

This accounting and inventory package has enough features

to be useful for any small and medium business. The software is easy to install

and use. It installs in two parts, Server and Client, and provides two elements:

Accounting and Inventory. You need to enter company details to use these

elements. You can use only the Accounting element while creating a company. A

good feature in the software is the in-built VAT support provision; it is

activated if VAT number is provided while entering the company details.

The features provided include Departmental Accounting,

Reverse Calculation, Edit Lock (locks records for editing), Foreign Currency

Transactions and Bar Code printing. The software has four editions targeting

different user requirements: SOHO, Lite, Standard, and Premium. The Standard and

Premium editions provide hardware locking also. There are a lot of features and

options provided for customizable reports. You can view reports for Sales,

Purchases, Creditors, Debtors, Foreign Currency Transactions, Fund Flow, Cash

Flow and other accounting and inventory tasks. The software also allows

customizing the Client GUI as per user requirements. For example the Tax field

can be removed if the transactions being recorded are not tax related. The

Software also provides support for multiple currencies and has a feature to get

currency exchange rates from the Internet.

Coming to accounting and inventory features you will find

options for initializing accounts, products, services, batches, budget, and

slabs. For transactions the software has options for Cash, Bank, Cheques, and

Purchases. You can also make a sales estimation using the software and there is

a detailed menu for inventory transactions also.

Along with detailed reports the software also provides

options for graphical representation of data. There is a menu for graphs, which

has options varying from Monthly Sales and Purchases to Inventory and

Expenditure Analysis. The option for data backup and recovery and the software

prompts to regularly back data after before a user is logging out.

Bottom Line: With a

sufficient features list, and an easy-to-use interface, the software is a good

accounting solution for small and medium businesses.

Anadi Misra