2007 Review of High End Accounting Systems

From the December 2007 Issue

By M. Darren Root, CPA.CITP

This review encompasses four of the top high-end accounting systems in the market place. Each system is aesthetically pleasing to work with, and each provides an intuitive user interface and a full set of modules to accomplish most any task or process.

Powerful infrastructures; the ability to grow with your business; integrated modules that include standard core accounting functions, distribution and manufacturing, workflow management, human resources, customer relationship management and much more make any of the packages reviewed worth taking a look at before making a software solution selection.

Third-party software vendors have developed many robust vertical solutions for businesses that require specialized services. Whether you have one location or multiple, software solutions today provide flexibility. You can customize the user interfaces, work with dashboards, work remotely, have your complete system hosted in an ASP (Application Service Provider) environment and much more.

Each of the products reviewed here provides valuable tools such as access to source code for customization and extensibility. Reporting is extensive and flexible, providing for tight integration with Microsoft Office products such as Excel and Word. And each product reviewed provides substantial training and support options to make sure you protect your software investment well into the future.

To provide consistency among the reviews, the following areas were evaluated for each package: