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AccountEdge Pro 2012 a business standout, but shows its age

18.09.2012
Acclivity's is the powerful, significantly more feature-rich big brother to the company's very good entry level business account application, . Both are built on the same double-entry accounting foundation, but AccountEdge Pro offers significantly more features and capabilities, including inventory management, purchasing, time-billing, and payroll. AccountEdge Pro also includes a combination of about 20 new features, enhancements, and improvements.

AccountEdge Pro has changed very little over the years, at least in terms of the way it looks and feels. AccountEdge Pro uses the same flowchart-like interface it has used for more than 15 years to guide you through every aspect of your business' financial life and to help you see how each aspect of your business is linked together. There are shortcuts at the top and bottom of the program's Command Center that allow for quick access to all of the program's features and Acclivity has added a new sidebar to provide quick access to your favorite and most recently used program modules.

As is the case with AccountEdge Basic, AccountEdge Pro requires at least a rudimentary understanding of accounting terms and processes before you get started, if only to help you avoid any confusion when setting up your company file. This shouldn't scare you; AccountEdge Pro is a true double-entry accounting application, and Acclivity on their site to help alleviate some of that initial accounting angst.

Among AccountEdge Pro's new features are a mileage tracking tool that helps you track mileage rates and miles traveled both for vehicles that you own and those owned by your employees. The new mileage log allows you to bill customers for mileage traveled and you can link mileage to specific jobs.

Updates to the program's Welcome screen allow you to perform basic file maintenance without requiring you to open your data file and you can use the Welcome screen to restore data files from backups saved on an external disk or . Dropbox can also be used to centralize data so that it can be updated using Acclivity's apps.

The program still offers one of my favorite business accounting features: a single data file that can be used by both Windows and Mac versions of Acclivity's accounting programs. Acclivity also offers a multi-user version of the application that allows all of your users to access your file simultaneously, whether they are working on a PC or a Mac, and the program's security features allow you to put limits on the information users can access.