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WorthIT Fixed Assets

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From the December 2009 Review of Fixed
Asset Management Systems

WorthIT
Fixed Assets offers one of the more comprehensive systems on the market, providing
asset management, depreciation accounting and capital budgeting functions for
managing assets over multiple locations, tracking costs by project or company
subdivisions, following assets during manufacturing, and making projections
across multiple years. The system supports any number of companies and assets,
with four books per asset. It offers direct integration with Accpac and Solomon,
and offers data export tools for use with other GL packages. WorthIT Fixed Assets
costs about $2,000. Also available is the WorthIT BarCode Gallery for scanner-based
asset inventory purposes, Lease Manager and Lease Analyst systems, the Capital
Advantage Suite and modules for extended reporting and image management.

NAVIGATION/EASE-OF-USE:
The program opens to the master asset selection screen for the last company
used, providing a spreadsheet view that allows sorting by columnar data for
description, costs, method and other factors. Additional asset details are available
via tabs. Asset information screens also offer tabbed views, with options for
Main, Keys, Other and Session. These screens provide smart entry features, including
selection lists for class, staff and vendor IDs, plus a notepad and icons for
accessing additional activity information. Users can scroll between assets using
forward and back navigation buttons. The general interface offers pull-down
menus for lists, reporting functions, activities, tools and system preferences,
with an icon menu for accessing key features, projections and other tools.

Assets can also be assigned to business units, with support for divisions,
branches, cost centers, GL accounts and customizable fields, all of which can
be selected using drop-down selection lists. Additional user-defined fields
are available on the Other tab for tracking information such as warranties or
service details. During setup, users are guided by wizards that help assign
defaults and create the business subsidiary units for tracking. When creating
assets, users can copy existing assets to speed entry.

In addition to the asset overview screens and report options, the program
offers one-click access to asset Snapshots, which provide a great on-screen
detailed view of all asset operating statistics, locations, service information
and allocations, with the ability to drilldown even further into more detail
on transactions and life-to-date costs.

MANAGEMENT FEATURES:
WorthIT Fixed Assets manages any number of assets for any number of companies,
including detailed cost center and divisional units. It offers up to four depreciation
books per asset, and supports standard U.S. and Canadian depreciation methods,
including ACRS, MACRS, straight-line, sum of digits, units of production, compound,
declining balance and zero depreciation. Depreciation can be calculated using
mid-month, mid-year, mid-quarter, half-year and other options.

The system’s depreciation forecasting tools enable projections for any
number of years, quarters or months, and let users select the level of detail.
Capital budget forecasting is also available, helping management better plan
for acquisitions with the ability to easily view depreciation and other variables.
Additional tools include the Financial Inquiry feature, which gives users comprehensive
current and historical depreciation information, including viewing data relating
to capitalized transactions, book overviews and period depreciations. An asset
adjustment function helps assess the need for depreciation recalculations, while
an audit trail tracks all changes and GL posting vouchers include reversing
entries for these adjustments.

WorthIT Fixed Assets supports multiple asset life options, including sales,
splits, mergers, assets under construction, exchanges, and mass and partial
disposals. It also houses advanced asset location tracking, including the ability
to note assets as in-transit or assigned to an employee, plant, shop or other
user-defined location codes. Scanner-based asset inventory capabilities are
available through the optional BarCode Gallery module.

INTEGRATION:
The program offers direct integration with the Accpac and Solomon accounting
systems and provides data export into Excel, text and other formats that can
be imported by other GL, tax and trial balance packages. The system also integrates
directly with the BarCode Gallery asset inventory module, as well as WorthIT’s
other financial management programs.

REPORTING:
The system includes a strong collection of financial, depreciation and managerial
reporting options, which can be fully customized, including formatting, column
selections and additional factors. A user-definable reports library remembers
prior reports and can be used to create report groups. Reports include asset
registers, depreciation summaries, projections, comparisons, histories, GL postings,
capitalized costs, analysis and dozens of other options. Additional reporting
functions are available through WorthIT’s Report Gallery module, which
provides greater customization and analysis options.

HELP/SUPPORT:
WorthIT provides a good mix of wizards and task-specific Help. The support website
offers only a few additional options, specifically FAQs, system upgrades, and
links to support contact and training options. Technical support is offered
through subscription-based annual packages.

2009 OVERALL RATING: