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change atclosing on Friday,oct. 16, atclosingon Black Monday,audagamat dosingon January 15. Notone of those stocks — which range from small Canidian-ownedfirms such as BMB Compuscience and Accugraph Corp. to Bell Canada Enterprises,Xerox Canada and IBM — has climbed back to its pre- crash price. On average, the18 stocksdropped13.14 per centon october 19, and they'renow22.87percentbelowpre-crash prices.Communications-rehtted companies have rallied almost to ~ ra sh pr ices (BellCanada Enteqmises closed Jan. 15 at C$3630, having dosed Oct. 16, 1987, atC$36.75), while computer companies have continued dropping. One exception isDevelcon Electronics, the troubled Saskturmn communications equipment maker,which droitped ottly 10 cents on the day of the crash andhas since fallen two dolhrsmore to C$1.70. The other is IBM, which closed Oct. 19 at C$148 and is now up toC$150.The TorontoStock Exchange'sHigh Technology Index (which containscompaniesfrom industries other than computers and communications too) has held steady atabout 776.

EPSON TO APPEAL PRICE MAINTENANCE HNETORONIO (NB) — Epson Canada LttL says a C$200,000 fine assessedagainst thecompany for illegal price maintenance is excessive and it will appeal. Epson pleadedguilty to the charges, which arose Som a chmse in dealer contracts requiring dealersnot to advertise E~ products at less than suggested list price, but said it had notknown the chuse was illegal The judge in the caseagreed with that daim, and foundthat no damage to dealers or constmters resulted from Epson's action. Although notquestioning the conviction, Epson wants the fine reduced.Epson Canadasaid in a stalement the clause wasinserted in its dealer contracts "to tryto protect dealer margins so that dealers would be able to offer proper service andsupport to their customers." Thecotnpanyalsosaidit isconcernedabouttheexistenceof a "grey market" in Epson products in Canada, ih which Epson equipment is sold bynon-authorized dealers atbargain prices. Buyers may notbe aware such.products arenotcoveted by EIIson Canada'sone-year wammty, thecompany said.Epson Canath is Canadian-owned, with 81 per cent of the company controlled by itspresident, Maurice LaPalme.CONTACT:EPSONCANADALTD.,285YtnklandBlvd.,Willowdale,ont. M2J1S5, (416) 495-995$

WAIT-ANDRE ATTITUDE GREETS'CLARISVANCOUVER(NB) — Thecreationof AppleComputer's software"spinout,"ClarisCorp., will probably be a good thing in the long run, Canatllans who develop softwarefor Apple machines believe."We would be very mprised if the actions that Claris takesnegatively affectdevelopment activity," said David Rebak, a director of Chancery Software Ltd.'inVancouver. Apple Gmada has generally been supptmtive of third-,party developers,Rebak said, and there is no reason to expect achange. He said Claris coumbe aboonto smaller developers, helping them merkA their products.Tom O'Flalttmty; vice-prtmident of mtuketlng at Bedford Softwtue Inc., also in

Vancouver, ayeed that Claris could help smaller developers though marketingparttterships. He added that-expanding the softwtue base for Apple hardware shouldbenefiteveryone. "I think it's Apple's intention to cover the world with Macintoshes,and I think thattheir software subsidiary has been set up to further that entL"Malcolm Mac T~ general manalyxof Microsoft Canada Inc. in Toronto, said his

companyis "verypleased" with themove, whichhebelieveswillhelp Macintosh salesby offering buyersmorechoiceof software.Susan FisherofLogo ComputerSystemsInc. in Montreal said the move "could have a positive effect."The reasotung behind scyarating Claris from Apple — getting Apple out of directcompetition with Ihird~ deve lopers — meets with some skepticism, however."It's ann's-length in theory only," commented Rebid "It isn't indcyendent until

Apple actually selh it of." O'Fhherty says Qaris will benefit from having Apple's

However, said Mac Taggart,"I don't think there' s any intention on the behalf of Appleto provide Clamt with any unfair advantage."

CANADA REMOTE SCRAPS ONTARIO COMPUTER EX-CHANGETORONTO(NB) — ~ Remote Systems Inc. is tlrolyping the ontario ComputerExchangeafter three months of"trying to figmeouthow to integrate the OCE into ouroperations," the hardware and software dealer and bulletin board operator said in itslatest membership newsletter.'Ihe exchange, which was afWiated with Ihe Boston Compufer Exchange, ' ttxluiresconsideable effort in tracking down used equipment," ymident Jud Newell wrote."It also appetua to need a much harder sell than we' re ItreI)ared to gve. CanadaRemotehas never been noted for the hard sell-pushy type of operation, and we're notabout lo start now."CONTACT:CANADAREMOTE SYSTEMS, Suite 311, 4198 Dundas St. W.,Toronto, Ont. MSX 1Y6, (416) 231-2383

COPYRIGHT LAW MIGHT MAKE MANY USERS TECHNI-CALLY PIATESOT1'AWA(NB) — Canada's proposed new copyrightprotection for software mightput a lot of personal computer users on the wrung sideof the law.

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'Ihe new law, due to go before the House of Commons in the next few weeks for thirdreading and final dehtte, specifies that the licensee of a software IMekage may notmake more than one copy of that software, for his or herown use, without the vendor'spermission. That means if you make two backups, or if you copy the software to yourhard disk and then back up the entire contents of the hard disk, you are technicallybreaking the law.

Originallytheproposals wouldhavealloweda "reasonablenumber"ofbackupcopies.Michel Hetu, a spokesman for the federal Department of Communications, whichhelped draft the proposals, said the wording was changed because some softwarecompanies wantedalimitonbackupcopies specifie. And Graeme Hughes,presidentof the Information Technology Association of Canada in Toronto, said that while hisorganization didn'task for the one- copy limit, it generally agreed with the legishlion.Careful computer users shouldn't panic, however. Toronto lawyer Daivd Latner, ofthe firm Gordon, Traub and Rotenberg, said nobody is likely to prosecute a user formaking legitimate backup copies.

- BEDFORD SOFA%ARE LTD., of Vancouver, has released Version 321 of itsIntegrated Accounting software. The new version includes 1988 tax tables for allCanadian provinces, updated Workers' Compensation Board wage bases, and theabiTity to print T4 forms for Canadian income tax in the current format. Suggestedretail price is C$249.

— MICROSOFI' CANADA INC.,Toronto, has appointed Jonathan M. Sachs to theposition of national sales and marketing manager. Sachs was formerly marketingdirector at The Creative Marketing Network Inc., Microsoft Canada's public relationsagency.— THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT has imposed a new federal telecommuni-cations tax of 10 per cent on all long distance phone calls, whether residential or

business.On the otherhand,Teleglobe Canada hasreduced ratesforoverseasphonecalls from Canadaby an average of 13.5 per cent. The net tesultis that calling a BBSon another continent still costs more than most of us can afford.

NEWSBYTES-JAPANBy Masayuki Miyazawa and Keizo Yamamoto

FUJI XEROX TIES UP WITH SUN MICRO SYSTEMSTOKYO (NB) — Fuji Xerox and California-based major workstation maker SunMicro Systems have signed a bmad business agreement which includes joint devel-opment of computer central pmcessing units and operating systems. To start, FujiXemx will adapt Sun's processor called Scaleable Processor Architectme Computer(SPARC) to its workstation. With SPARC, Fuji Xerox expects to make the perform-ance of its machine more than ten times faster. Meanwhile, Fuji Xerox and Sun will

jointly develop a new operating system with powerful network features. The newoperating system will be based on the SUN OS, Sun's version of Unix operating

system. Both firms will add SUN OSwith Fuji Xerox's communication protocol, andXerox Network systems (XNS).

CONTACT: Fuji Xerox, International Sanno Bldg., 3-3-5 Akasakaginato-ku,Tokyo 107

CHINA GETS DOWN TO PC EXPORTS —China is getting ready toexport personal computers to the world market in abig way. According to apublishedreport, the Chinese Computer Development Corp. (CCDC) exportedabout1,100unitsof its IBM PC/AT-compatible PC, the Great-Wall 286, during September andNovember of1987.Thenumber issmallbutthecompany hasgained major customersin the U.S., Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia. CCDC will export more PCs this

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MINOLTA ENTERS PC MARKETlQKYO (NB) — Osaka-based Japanese camera maker Minolta will release two

types of IBM PC-compatible personal computers in Emope and the U.S. in February.The PCW-2 andthe PCW-3 have an 8086 CPU, and some business programs are

bundled with the machines.'Ihey area Japanese word processingprogram, an Englishtypewriting program, a scheduler, and a calcuhtor. The PCW-2 has two 5-inch FDDs,and thePCW-3 hasa5-inch FDD and a20 megabyte hard disk.'Ihey arepricedaround

$3,590.CONTACT: Minolta Camera, Osaka Kokusai Bldg., 7-30 Yasudo-chogiigashi-ku,Osaka-shi 541

SUSHI BYTESPHOENIX TECHNOLOGIES IN TOKYO — Phoenix Technologies, Ma, USA,will set up a chip design center in Tokyo. The company will design IBM-compatiblecomputers and provide a consulting service. It is also expected that the company willset up the design centers in Korea and Taiwan.CRAY JAPAN AND TOSHIBA —The American subsidiary of supercomputer firCmy Japanand Toshibahaveofficially agreed tocooIeratean sales of Cray computersin Japan. In the agreement, Toshiba will bundle Cray's supercomputers with variousJapanese computers and peripheral equipment to meet the demands of Japanese

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Simply Accounting: Macintosh Accounting From BedfordProgram Requirementsand Size

Simply Accounting Pmgmm:4093K Help File: 7K. File Size: requires at least 800K of on-line storage .'Ihe program needs 1 megabyte of memory and thenewer 128K ROMs to run (a Mac Plus or better). Up to5000 GL accounts can becreated using a 4 digit design.

$20 million dolhrs is the maximum account balancevalue it can handle. Suggested Retail Price is $449.Updates are$89/year which includesprogram enhance-ments and tax tables for the payroll module. The pro-gram is not copy pmtected.Who's it For?

Bedford's new accounting pmgram, Simply Ac-counting is a late entry into the increasingly crowdedaccounting market for Macintosh. Itis a low end single-user accounting system for small business. The targetmarket for this product is small business accounting.Simply Accounting will be competing with the likes ofIn House Accountant (GL, AR, AP -$200), Back toBasics (GL, AR, AP $328), and Accounting Inc. (GL,AR, AP, Inv. $439) While it is a powerful pmgram, itlacks some useful features such aspasswordprotection,and a graphing capability.

Simply Accounting features fully integrated GL,

AP, AR, Inventory, Payroll and Job Costing modules,all on one disk. All balances are constantly updated asentries are made.Reports canbe sent to theprinteror thesaeen, which facilitates error chechng. The job cost-ing module gives theability tobreakoutpmject, depart-ment or pmfit centers.

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The program puts the Mac interface to good use.Dataentry is smoothandintuitive. Error handlingisrea-sonably good with the entry controls pmvided. Forexample, the dateentry controlsgive warning if the dateof entry is changed by more than one week. If the datemoves pasta signiTicant accounting date it also sends awarning message to the screen.

Most fieldswhere there is a finit set of entry optionshave apop up, scrolling window which allows a "point-and-click" for the appmpriate entry. These scrollingwindow also supports the armw keys on the newer Mackeyboards.

'Ihe ability to split journal entriesbetween upto 255

ledger accountsisavailable. This feature is designed forthose month-enders who take out $2,000 in petty cash,and then need todislznse itover ahundiedor so expenseitems.

Two minor complaints against lhe pmgram werefound with respect todataentry. A keyboard equivalentofPosting wouldspeeddataentry. Thereisan argumentthatenors willbe noticed if the user has to dosomethingdifferent to Post an entry (Le. pick up the mouseandclick) but theicalityisthat switching tothemouseslowsdownentryconsidembly. Another improvementwouldbe the ability to cancel a report roquest with a "Com-mand-Period" as is available in a number of Macdatalzlses. This is especially useful with reports re-quested in emorthat nike a while to compile.

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PerformanceBedford has taken the same

approach on this version as their ': " y

PC program where much of the 'data is loaded into RAM. This m akes theprogram run very fast. ::

Because the basic Mac it can run e:

on has a megabyte of memory, it ' "has more capacity than the PCwhich is limited to 640K RAM.Correspondingly, the capacity of .accounts is aboutdouble that of thePC version.

The program allows the user to:,'„save whenever they wish, in addi- .tion, it will save whenever an entryis posted and when the program is,closed. This pl'ovldes reasonablygood protection against losses 'within sessions of data entry.Ready or Not. The Set Up

Setup is fairly straight forwardexcept that the "Ready - NotReady" method of compiling the

program to integrate all the Jour-nals is a little confusing. Bedford'sapproach is unique here in that it •allows historical data to be enteredand balancedbefore the progmm

becomes integrated.The "Ready - " ..

Not Ready" feature protects dataintegrity, once Ready is set, itis notpossible to alter GL Account bal- I" :ances, though it is still possible to, .add moreGL accounts andrename

existing ones. It is a good idea to „read through this section a coupleof times before launching intoyour conversion.

Six starter templates are pro-vided on disk. They cover a goodrange of GL account options so

that with a few modifications,most small business can be set upwithout having to enter everythingfrom scratch. Using the existingtemplates has the added benefit ofhaving the integration accountsaheady determined. This, fortu-nately, is not a complex task if itbecomes necessary.

The program uses four digitnumbers for the chart of accounts.'Ihere are preset ranges whichinust be used for Assets, Liabili-ties, Equity, Revenue and Expenseaccounts. These cannot bechanged. Eachsetof accounts is

limited to 1000 accounts. So al-though the pmgram can poten-

tially handle 5000 accounts only1000ofthem may be any onesetofaccounts such as Expenses. This should not be a limita-tion for most small businesses, but it may be a consid-eration for unusual cases.Receivables and Payables

The program employs the open invoice method forboth receivables and payables. 'Ihere is no option forbalance forward invoicing however customer or vendorinvoices that are fully paid may be either purged or re-tainetL The documentationclaims that Ihe program canhandle 2,000 customers or vendors with transachonslimited only by available memory. 'Ihe aging periodscan be defined by the user. This is a worthwhile addi-t ion, avoiding the limitation of the standard 3~ 9 0

days. The program can beused in conjunction with amanual invoicing or chequesystem, or by printing oncustom computer forms.Inventory

The Inventory module uses the average weightedcost methodandcanreport on a margin or a mark-upbasis. It updates Som the Receivables and Payablesmodules, anice feature for small retailers. Aix:orthng tothedocumentation, itcan handle upto 10,000inventoryitemLJob Cost

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veprojects canbein use atany one time. 'Ihereportsoducedareforrevenue and expense by pmject,andy may be detailed or suinmary. The profpam will notduceseparatebalancesheetsby thesedivisions,onlychedule of revenues and expenses.yrollSee the Payroll survey in accompanying article forail on Simply Accounting's Payrollports and PrintingAshortcomingof thispfogramisthatitlacksabatch

ode for printing cheques. Each item must be proc-sed and printed individually. This apprtwtch doeslowforboth manualandcomputergeneratedcheques

ments.

but this is a double edged sword. Itsa nice feature with the potential tocreate havoc, because printing acheque doesn't affect the journalentry. It is conceivable to print outtwo or more of the same cheque.

Another missing feature is theability to print out statements andinvoices on plain paper, the usermust buy additional forms, whichare readily available, but it would anice feature to be able to design andprint custom invoices and state-

Reports are limited in their flexi-biTity. In designing reports, it is anice addition to be able to choosefonts, but the program doesn't giveaccess to different font sizes. Thescreen font and the printer font mayalso be different. One slick additionis the ability to suppress zen bal-ance accounts f'rom reports.

There is no budgeting feature toSimply Accounting. 'Ihe program

will not retain last years figures ei-ther. 'nte current month and year todate do not appear on the same re-port. Fortunately, it is fairly easy toprint reports ftom different periods.The program does have exportingcapabilities for any of i ts reportswhich can be easily sent to spread-sheets and text files. This is a nicefeature to spruce up the programssomewhat limited reporting func-tions.

An audit trail is also availablefrom the General Journal Report.Documentation

Simply Accounting comes witha very professional looking threering binder Users Guide and ac-

counting manual complete withsection divider tabs. The majorshortcoming of the manual is thatthe tutorial section is skimpy. Itmoves off into other areas beforegiving a comprehensive feel for the'program.'Iherestof the manualsuf-fers Bom a simplistic approach insome areas.Itassumes thateveryone isa Mac novice,and doesn'tmention keyboard shortcuts ordouble clichng where they wouldbe appropriate. At one point in theUser's Guide they go so far as tosuggestreturningto the Finder toopen a new file instead of using the"Close" and -Open" menu optionsunder the File menu.

The manual includes a limitedthough useful accounting manual. The intention is notto teach accounting, but rather bring the user up to thelevel of understanding necessary to use the programcorrectly. Some may still require the services of anaccountant in setting up their books.

The documentation also suffers from a short index.For example, the seemingly relevant item of Posting"is not indexed. Another helpful feature would havebeen to print the chapter headlines on the tabs whichdivide the sections rather than just using numbers. Thenumber "3" doesn't tell very much, but "Tutorial"might.The 'Tips"sections ofthe manualcouM be sepa-

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SupportBedford offers telephone support, (customer paysthe long distance charges if fmm out of town) by sub-scription for $60 per hour. Payroll tables and programupdates are available for $89 a year. Bedford willreplacedefective disksforfree.We Missed You...

The lack of password protection seemsmajor. Evenone or two levels would be useful in a small business toprotect sensitive information regarding payroll, etc.Why they left it out is a mystery since passwordprotec-tio'n is available for the PC version, although it was

apparently complex to use. Bedford seems to havethrown the baby out with thebath waterby not includingit here. Not having automatic posting for recurringentries such as rent or lease payments is another bigoversight by Bedford. A graphing capability, while notyet a standard feature in accounting programs on the

Mac, is certainly a missed feature here in Simply Ac-counting. Finally, a plain paper option for statementsand invoices would be a great addition, for those whodon't want to spend mare on custom forms.

Bedford has come up with a slick and polished lowend accounting solution for the Mac. It is easy touseand

rated out more effectively, sometimes the main body oftext runs into the tips, and doesn't seem to make sense,a different font would have helped, or perhaps a divid-ing box, (see pg 5-13 of the User's Guide)

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Survey of Canadian Payroll Softwaret s it worthwhile to put your company's payroll onyour office PC? The banks and some accountantsmay tell you no. We attempt here to give a survey ofyour best options available running onboth MS-DOSmachines and Macintoshes. In setting up our compari-

son table, we found in many cases we were comparingapples to orangesand to avoid an extremely clutteredand unreidable table, we opted for a more simplifiedrating scale: one (/) means that theprogramsupportsthe feature, two (//) if it does it well andthee (/// )if it excels in some way.Product Positioning

Each of these pmgrams of course has its ownmarket niche. ACCPACis designed for the user whore-quires the flexibility an capability provided by its userdefinable formulas for earnings and non-statutory de-ductions. Itis targeted to a medium sized business withalarge numberof employees possibly requiring jobcostor departmental ielxlting. It is also well suited to non-profit organizationswith a large number of employees.

Bedford onboth thePC andMac is designed for thesmall owner managedbusinesswith a small numberofemployees whorequiresdistribution o thepayrollcoststo jobs.

Both MacPayromand Paytime fit into the middleothe spectrum. They have more flexibility in definingeaiiungs and deductions than Bedford but lack thecapitbility of user defmed formulas as in ACCPAC.Paytme is a dBase II program and MacPayroll iswritten in a Mac datttbase pmgram called Omnis 3.Conespondingly bothprogramspay aprice i speed ofscreenrefreshandreport updating.

Another middle-the-roaderisAccounting Mas-ter. This is a standalone product with many powerfulfeatiires. Accounting Master is positioned as aproductto handle larger payiolls without the complexities ofACCPAC. It writes directly to the ACCPAC generalledger.

cate cheques in the event of errors in printing. Thisbrings up animportant accounting difference betweenthe programs. Only ACCPAC provides anaudit trailwhich would identify that multiple cheques have been

BEDFORD: MAC AND PCBedford's software does about the same thing on

both the Mac and the PC, so the price differentialbetween the programs seems a little steep. Whateverhappened toeconomiesof scale? Thepackageis aslickproduct in both incaniations. The manuals are welldone, if a little thin in, the tutorial sections.

Bedford on both machines is weak in reportingfunctions. It doesnot give a monthly payroll summaryreport and a report which calculates the remittance tothe Government. The information is posted to theGeneral Ledgerandisavailable but it doesnotcome outin a specifically named report as in the other programs.

All the programs will print T4s for employees.Bedford however, does not produce an employerssummary of T4s. Neither does it total the earnings and

deductions so that a summary can be prepared fromsystem information. These shortcomings in Bedford'spayroll portion suggest that it is not a good choice as astand alone payroll program. If, however, Bedford wasacquired for IheGeneral Ledger or other functions, andthe choice is between a manual payroll and usingBedford, Bedford's is better than nothing. The infor-mation is all there, it just isn't always labelled as such

. and sometimes takes a bit of work to get it out.One of the major differences i the operation of the

systems is that Bedfonl requires the user to print thechequeand stubimmohately after entry of eachpayrollrecord. This creates a situation of having to enter andprint, enter and print. If the number of employees is

All the programs allow for the printing of dupli-

PAVHME

small, this will not bemuch problem, in larger compa-nies, this approach would be very time consuming. Allthe other programstake a batch modeapproach to thepayroll process. The data entry person would enter alarge number of time sheets in one session. The entire

cheque run can then be run in one batch.MACPAYROLLMacPayroll doesagoodjob of generating ahealthy

supply of reports. The documentation is decent, al-though a good tutorial, beyond the on-disk samplewould probably lower the learning curve. One nicety isthat they have a free usersupport line andmoreoftenthan not you can get either the company president or thehead programmer on the phone. The program is a littleslow in getting screens and reports up, a function ofbeing written in thedatabaselanguage Omnis 3. Onceyou get it all in therethough, it canprint outa payrol infairly short order. Advancescan be done either indi-vidually, or with a global command for a group ofemployees. Year-to-date totals on individual'employ-ees cannot be altered except by posting reversing en-tries, which leaves anaudit trail. The softwarehas someslick error checks including the ability to detect bogus

Social Insurance Numbers. This is possible because theninthSIN number isa check sum.MacPayroll's worst characteristic doesn't have

anything to do with its accounting abilities. It isugly...Omnis ugly. This is a characteristic that wouldnot show up asmuch in a PC version, but it standsoutagainst other Mac programswhich allow much moreflexibility with fonts andscreenrepresentations.

If you can get past the look of it, it has beauty,especially at the newpricing just announcedby Altec.As of February 1, theprogram will retail for $149. Thecompany also intends to release a fully functioningheeware version which will do 1-5 employees.

An important accounting concern with Paytime isthat the year-to-date information for any employee canbe altered and no audit trail report is generated by thesystem. Otherwise theprogram operates asstated. It isreasonably flexible in itsearningsanddeductions. Thedocumentation could be improved by expanding theindex and introducing a tutorial. A search through theindex moreoften drawsablank than asource of furtherinformation. More on screen help would also facilitatematters. Data entry is clumsy in Paytime. It is oftennecessary to pressRETURN to move the cursor througha screen in which no data was to be entered. ACCOUNTING MASTER

Accounting Master bears some resemblance toanother payroll program called Journal Master whichdeparted last year. Accounting Master hasmany im-proved features, including a liberation horn using cus-tom forms. It will now let you use plain paper to printcheque stubs. As mentioned previously, the programwill write directly to ACCPAC general ledger files. Itdoes this for Client Strategist as well, another popularaccounting program.

A full set of reports combined with a large degree

of f lexibility in both deductions and earnings typesmake this a stand out program. The program allows forall three types of entering for both earnings and deduc-tions:

I) a manual entry, where theamount is typed in ateach session,

2) an auto entry, where a fixed amount is entered inadvance andrecurs at each payroll

3) a formula entry, wheretheamount of thededuc-tion is a percentage of someearnings number.

In addition, a manual override is avaihble for anyrecumng or formula entry.

Your accountant may still grumble, but they aremore likely to grumble approvingly at the way Ac-

counting Master deals with altering accountbalanceLAlthough it is possible to alter year to date earningsnumbers, this feature is only accessible to the highestlevel of password control. It still allows you to printmultiple versions of a cheque, but this is a trade off, of

more user flexability versuslower accounting controls.ACCPACACCPAC is very complex . Setting up the system

for the first time is not for the faint of heart. Advanceplanning, the manual and strong nerves are the key to asuccessful approach to setting up the ACCPAC payrolLOnce set up, the program is not difficult to use andthings go in smoothly. Data entry is fast and can bespeededup by the useofrecumng time sheets. Addingnew employees to the system goes very fast if jobclassifications are set up for employees with similarearnings anddeduction types.

Information can begenerated for job costing, sec-tions and departments. It may sound like a lot to theaverage small businessbut twenty earnings categoriescan prove tobe a limitation to somemid-sized compa-nies. More importantly, only twelve non-statutory de-ductions areavailable. ACCPAC doesnot include the

employersportion of thepaymll costs in itsjob costingor section reporting, an imporumt oversight.THE BANK WhatabouttheBank you saysThecostsrunaround

a dollar per personper payroll, so you figure it out if itis worth it for your company. On the plusside is thatsomeoneelsetakes care of updates, changesin govern-ment regulationsand even getting the moneyinto youremployees accounts. You also don't have to worryabout exphining payroll inequities tocurious employ-ees-only yourbankerknows for me. On the negativeside is that the bankscharges can run up fast with a largepayroll, you have to get the information to them hrtherin advance than if you where to do it in house, they getto sit on your government contributions for a wholemonth before remitting it - they pocket the interest, notyou. With a medium sized payroll, this loss of interestalone could be enough to rationalize the cost of most ofthe payroll pmgrams mentioned here. Banks can' talways calculate the earnings and deductions as youspecify and there are limits to the job costing informa-tion that can be obtained.And the Envelope Please...

All of the programs represent good value for themoney. Whether thattranslates intoabetterbuy than thebank or a manual systemdepends onyour company.With the range and uniformly good quality productsavailable, your computer can provide a good option forpayroll processing.

For a complex payroll, ACCPAC stands above therest. If itdoes notinclude all therequired features it maybe possible to obtain a modification. Paytime would besuitable for a small to medium sized business withouttoo many complex earnings and deductions. Account-ing Master offers a professional and easier to set upalternative to ACCPAC with the added bonus of inte-gration. MacPayroll is a good solution for the "Macin-

tosh Office". It is priced very reasonably andpmvidesa good variety of reports. Bedford is most suitable foruse fora very small payroll or if youbought it to handlethe restof you books and wish to maximize yourinvestment.

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