General Ledger
The heart of any accounting system, either manual or computerized, is the General Ledger system. It is the financial statements, supporting schedules and associated reports generated by a General Ledger system that are critical for timely decision making; therefore, it is imperative that a General Ledger system be powerful, flexible and informative to management, yet still be easy to use and operate.

Accounts Payable
The Accounts Payable module helps manage your expenditures by recording transactions and obligations to vendors and creditors.  Beyond the recording of invoices received and providing informative financial reports (including payables aging and future cash requirements), the Accounts Payable module provides a comprehensive solution for the payment of outstanding invoices through an innovative cash disbursement and check writing capability. You can also use Accounts Payable to take advantage of any discounts offered to your company if invoices are paid by the discount due date.

Accounts Receivable
The Accounts Receivable module provides you with the information you need to run a well-organized cash management program by tracking receivables and planning cash flow.  It also provides you with extensive information and reporting features.  This module contains a highly powerful, yet easy-to-use invoicing function which allows you to prepare invoices and billings within the system.  The Accounts Receivable module will also automatically prepare customer/client statements on demand.

Bank Reconciliation
Every month you can count on receiving your canceled checks and/or statement from your company's bank, and you are required to sort your checks, account for your deposits, and reconcile your checking account balance to the banks balance.  The Bank Reconciliation module simplifies the monthly reconciliation process, detects unrecorded transactions between books and bank, locates errors or differences, records the corrections and reconciles your books to the bank statement.

Payroll
Within a manual accounting system, payroll preparation is one of the most time-consuming and tedious tasks.  However, in-house payroll preparation can be a snap when you use the Payroll module.  At a fraction of the cost and time of a manual payroll system or outside service bureau, the Payroll module can apply employee earnings and deductions, automatically calculate employee and employer payroll taxes, and print checks and vouchers complete with year-to-date earnings and tax information.  At the end of each quarter and year, the respective payroll reports and W-2 forms required by various tax authorities can be printed.  All current federal and state tax tables are included with the Payroll module, and city or local taxes can be easily entered.

Fixed Assets
Fixed assets can account for a significant percentage of your company's assets. As such, they can have a dramatic impact on your bottom line. Yet managing these assets can be a challenge, especially if your management software does not allow customization to fit your business or will not integrate with your Windows-based client/server environment.  For years, Sage FAS Fixed Assets (FAS™) programs have been an industry leader in fixed asset management capability and versatility. FAS for Windows now extends that capability and versatility to Windows 95^® /NT^® users. FAS for Windows combines the acclaimed depreciation expertise of FAS with the power and user-friendliness of Windows. It is designed to deliver new management freedom, customizable control and fast and reliable performance—from initial data entry to automatic calculations and detailed reporting.

Sales Order
When a customer calls to place an order, you need to have lots of information at your fingertips.  With Sales Order, you'll have the customer's international and domestic mailing addresses, as well as the customer shipping addresses, you'll know the availability of specific units in inventory, or alternate items if those being ordered are out of stock, in addition to item pricing, quantity pricing, specific customer pricing, costs, customer credit limits, credit card deposit information and much more.  The Sales Order Processing module gives you quick and accurate access to information when you need it!

Purchase Order
Every time you order goods from your vendors, a contract to buy and a contract to sell is created; the Purchase Order Processing module helps you keep accurate records of these very important transactions.  With every order, you need to specify (and keep track of) shipping method, date required and the name of the person with whom the order was placed.  In addition, you need to confirm the quantities ordered and price per item.   This module streamlines and organizes the entire purchasing process.

Inventory Management
Precise control and safeguarding of inventory is an essential task for a successful, well-organized company; businesses require timely and accurate information on inventory location, movement and valuation.  The Inventory Management module provides data pertaining to the receipt of goods, the movement of goods within or between location, the sale, removal or other disposition of goods, and the precise valuation and status of goods remaining in inventory at any point in time.  When used in conjunction with other modules, Inventory Management is the cornerstone of an effective manufacturing or distribution solution.

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Custom Office
The Custom Office module combines the features of Office, Visual PostMaster and Customizer.  Office allows you to easily create letters or messages to individual customers or vendors.  You can attach documents (such as a scanned-in image) to specific records in MAS data files (such as a photograph to an inventory item).  With Visual PostMaster, you can create batch mailing jobs and marketing campaigns.   Customizer provides user-defined fields (UDFs) that you can easily implement without any special programming skills.

Visual Integrator
Visual Integrator has been designed to facilitate seamless integration between MAS data and other business applications.  Visual Integrator can import from (or export to) any ODBC-compliant source, without the need for an intermediary data file such as ASCII delimited or Microsoft Excel.  If you regularly perform imports from a custom or vertical software package, you'll find you can use Visual Integrator to make the integration virtually seamless.

Reporting Capabilities
Need a quick report to indicate how close you are to meeting your sales goals or to e-mail an account status to a customer?  Crystal Reports is the tool to use.  Need to provide an end-of-quarter balance sheet to your stockholders?  FRx software can handle that.   Whether it's quick status information or a presentation-quality report, MAS has the reporting tools that you need.  Providing multiple levels of standard and custom reports, MAS can give you virtually any report you need to run your business.

e-Business Manager
The Internet is fast becoming the method of choice for transacting business worldwide.   In the future, all of us will conduct an ever-increasing number of business transactions on-line.  Applications with direct Internet functionality of this kind will be imperative in order for businesses to stay competitive and responsive in this evolving marketplace.  The e-Business Manager module is the component that brings this capability to Sage MAS 90.  e-Business Manager provides an affordable, out-of-the-box solution for business-to-business e-commerce that integrates Sage MAS 90 with the World Wide Web.  The e-Business Manager application has been designed so that additional functionality can be added later by plugging in "applets" that fit your specific requirements.

FRx Reporting
FRx (Financial Report Extender) for Windows Report Writer software (Standard Version) is included with the General Ledger module.  FRx is a full-featured, Windows 98 compatible graphical financial reporting tool.  With FRx, the ability to specify row and column formats independently maximizes the flexibility of report formats.   Combine formats with a custom report tree that matches your company's chart of accounts structure.  Using the FRx drag and drop feature, you can restructure your cost centers, or carve out new account segments not possible in your standard General Ledger, using a special "Cleaver" tool.  After creating a report, you can print it, export it to an Excel worksheet, drill down to examine the details, or distribute it via e-mail.

F9
A powerful 32-bit business productivity too, F9 uses Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) technology to deliver data from your General Ledger to your favorite spreadsheet program.   When you activate the unique hot link feature from within your spreadsheet, you create an automatic link to your General Ledger data - and each cell in your spreadsheet can be hot linked to any data item in General Ledger.  Real-time financial information is instantly available within your spreadsheet, and you save time by putting your existing spreadsheet expertise to best use.  F9 also saves time by eliminating re-keying of data into your spreadsheet.

Timecard
More than an automated time card system, the MAS accounting software TimeCard module is a powerful and flexible addition to the Payroll and Job Cost modules.  Enter employees' time card data on any schedule desired, then hold this information until you are ready to run your next payroll.  The Certified Payroll Report feature allows you to flag labor codes and job numbers, then generate reports for submission to most government agencies.   TimeCard also provides you with a convenient time clock component - adding even more functionality and flexibility to your MAS solution.

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eRequester by Paperless Business Systems
In today’s environment of multiple offices, remote employees and increasing worker mobility paper-based purchase and requisition practices are difficult to manage. eRequester offers a web-based purchasing system designed for medium- to large-sized companies that manages internal purchasing and payment processes from start to finish.

eRequester is a Web-based procurement management, requisition, and purchase order software solution that allows companies to define and implement standardized purchase requisition practices which streamline and manage supply chains. eRequester controls the requisition process, helps entire organizations run more smoothly, and delivers rapid return on investment. It is simple to use and assists compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley.

 

Bill of Material
    The Bill of Materials module allows you to easily create and maintain a detailed bill of the components and miscellaneous charges that make up your finished items and subassembly components.  You can produce accurate and informative reports detailing bill structures, component requirements and production history.  The Bill of Materials module is designed to accommodate the after-the-fact recording of production.   As the production of each finished product is recorded, the component items used are automatically relieved from inventory, and the finished products are automatically received into inventory.

Job Cost
    Powerful management reporting, detailed accounting capabilities, flexibility and control best describe the Job Cost module.  In today's competitive market, with profit margins getting tighter, the Job Cost module is an essential management tool for keeping a close eye on job profitability.  Job Cost gives you the ability to track cost and revenue information down to fine detail for every job (project).  Powerful sub-modules including Project Estimating, Billing and Time and Materials Invoicing are built in to streamline the entire process.  Know where your bid proposals and projects stand with up-to-the-minute status reports.

Work Order
    The Work Order Processing module is the cornerstone of the Manufacturing Solution.   It allows you to issue work orders, develop schedules and track costs associated with the manufacturing process.  Work Order Processing provides you with complete control over the manufacturing process and the ability to see up-to-the-minute work in process information.  This module is particularly well-suited for companies engaged in assemble-to-order, engineer-to-order or make-to-order processing.

Bar Code Master
    Instead of time-consuming manual data entry, data gathered from portable handheld computers is easily imported into your MAS system.  Inventory errors are very costly to your business, and the Bar Code Solution, with its advanced bar coding features, virtually eliminates data entry errors.  Bar coding automates procedures for dozens of employees, and many businesses discover that implementation of a bar coding solution pays for itself with the very first use.  Save significant amounts of time and money with the Bar Code Master module!

Material Requirements Planning
  The Material Requirements Planning (MRP) module can help you eliminate purchasing and scheduling problems.  It is designed to simplify and speed up the work processes of purchasing and production managers, enabling them to plan more effectively.  The MRP module looks at "demand" based on open sales order and sales projections, and "supply" based on inventory stock levels and open purchase orders.   Product build times, lead times and "supply" and "demand" functions are combined to estimate the need for an inventory item.

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