Specific Application Support Features and Functions
Specific Application Support: As users are trying to decide which accounting systems they should be examining in more detail, they may have difficulty defining specific requirements, or we might not list all of their requirements in detail, or at all for that matter. This question is designed to assist users define in very general terms the functional areas in which they have an interest. By listing just the functional areas, they might look on this list as a quick and dirty needs definition, and that may be sufficient. Consultants may utilize the same approach when sitting down with a client for the first time. Rather than trying to get their client to immediately launch into a detailed needs definition, they might ask the client to list just the broad areas in which they have an interest. Once this broad needs definition has been utilized to identify products that offer the widest set of functions, the user and/or consultant may then restrict the detailed analysis to only those products.
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- General ledger
- Bank reconciliation
- Cash management
- Treasury management
- Electronic funds transfer (EFT)
- Budgeting
- Complex consolidations/roll ups
- Complex allocations
- Multi-currency accounting
- Multilingual accounting
- Fund accounting
- Governmental accounting
- Activity based costing
- Accounts payable
- Accounts receivable
- Credit management
- Invoicing
- Time and billing
- Debt collection
- Sales analysis
- Sales/use tax reporting
- Payroll
- Human resource management
- Direct deposit
- Inventory control
- Warehouse management
- Bill of materials
- Supply chain management
- Demand planning
- Logistics management
- Transportation scheduling/control
- Job costing: construction
- Job costing: service
- Job costing: manufacturing
- Job costing: government contractors
- Project accounting
- Project management
- Fixed assets
- Facilities/equipment maintenance scheduling
- Facilities/equipment maintenance costing
- Order entry
- POS/counter sales
- Contact management
- Customer relationship management
- Sales force management
- Customer support management
- Service contract management
- Service dispatch
- Document/image management
- Workflow management
- OLAP (on-line analytical processing)
- EIS (executive information system)
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Technical Requirements Features and Functions
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