Financial Management Software for Distributors

Accolent ERP provides powerful financial management tools and integrations

Accolent ERP Financial Management Software

The Accolent ERP financial management software system includes a comprehensive GAAP-compliant accounting system. In addition, the financial management software also provides financial tools for managing balance sheets, income statements and financial period closings, cash management, cost accounting, financial forecasting, budgeting and financial statement data analytics.

Accolent ERP Accounting System

The Accolent ERP accounting system is fully integrated with the Accolent ERP database. It automatically posts all ERP transactions in real-time to the GL (General Ledger) and tracks the financial impact of ongoing business operations including:

  • Taking orders and then invoicing and billing customers
  • Receiving returned goods and issuing credit memos
  • Receiving payments for customers and customer deposits
  • Placing and then receiving purchase orders
  • Reconciling vendor invoices to PO Receipts and then paying vendors
  • Updating inventory costing on every transaction
  • Posting transactions to the GL
  • Maintaining transaction histories and audit trails

Capabilities of Accolent ERP Financial Management Software

Accolent ERP Cloud-based software provides the full end-to-end functionality for wholesale distribution, light manufacturing, and service business, covering both core accounting and broader financial management software tools. The financial management software delivers the following capabilities:

  • Full multi-entity, multi-department, GL Chart of Accounts
  • Fully configurable Financial Statements
  • Streamlined Financial Period Closings
  • Real-time, auditable, GAAP-compliant, GL postings
  • Default GL allocations allow for automated GL postings, with the ability for the user to override defaults with the right permissions
  • Revenue and Expense recognition and tracking
  • Complete Inventory costing and tracking
  • Purchase Order receiving with Container Tracking and full Landed Costs
  • Fixed Assets register and tracking
  • Full Cash Management including Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and Bank Reconciliation
  • Integrated payroll processing
  • Fully integrated receipt of payments by Credit Card, ACH
  • Integrated AP Automation and vendor payments
  • Integrated Business Intelligence and Data Analytics capabilities for financial forecasting and financial planning and analysis
  • GL Account-level budgeting

Financial Statements

Accolent ERP financial management software’s Chart of Accounts permits unlimited GL Accounts and allows user-defined financial statements by Warehouse by Department. Consolidate multiple GL Accounts into an Account Group and consolidate multiple Account Groups into Account Sub-Types. All Account Sub-Types have positional awareness based on standard GAAP financial statement reporting.

Financial Forecasting and Budgeting

For financial planning and analysis, the system allows the creation of detailed budgets by GL Account by Warehouse by Department. Accolent ERP is fully integrated with Phocas Software’s Business Intelligence and Data Analytics tools. With these tools, users can create demand planning forecasts and analyze performance against budgets. Users can also create rolling forecasts as needed to capture changing economic conditions.

Powerful Integrations

From taking payments by credit card or ACH, remotely or in-person, to creating AP Payment files and paying vendors, to integrated Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, Financial Statements and Budgeting, to online sales tax, to payroll processing, Accolent ERP financial management software maintains seamless API integrations with other industry-leading solutions. Together with these powerful integrations, Accolent ERP is complete financial management software.

Industries

Optimized for wholesale distribution across a number of vertical industries: auto parts, building materials, chemicals, fasteners, food & beverage, industrial, jan/san, restaurant supply and more

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Features of Accolent ERP Financial Management Software 

  • Secure Access to Accounting Information– You can set access rights by Role to limit access to sensitive accounting information to appropriate personnel only
  • Complete Integrated GL Chart of Accounts – Create unlimited GL Accounts specified by Warehouse by Department
  • Immediate GL Posting of All Accounting Transactions – All accounting transactions immediately post automatically to the GL when the transaction is saved
  • Default GL Allocations – For efficiency, default allocations are set up for all transactions but may be overridden by the user with permissions
  • Audit Trail– All transactions are completely auditable and traceable in the system
  • Full Drill-Down– All transactions can be traced back to each underlying transaction (e.g., payment discount given on a specific payment on a specific invoice)
  • Financial Statements– Create multi-entity financial statements. Group GL Accounts (e.g., Checking Accout) by Account Group (e.g., Cash Accounts) by Sub-Account Type (e.g., Current Assets) by Account Type (e.g., Assets) to create GAAP-compliant Financial Statements by Warehouse by Department
  • Revenue Recognition– Complete revenue and expense recognition and tracking
  • Bank Accounts – Supports multiple Bank Accounts with easy reconciliation of actual cash in bank to balance sheet and cash accounts
  • Comprehensive Cash Management– Full support for AR, AP and Bank Reconciliation and cash requirements planning
  • Integration with 3rd party payroll– Accolent ERP has linked with multiple Payroll Processors to take a single integrated GL posting for each aggregated payroll payment
  • Integrated Payment Receipt Methods – Accolent ERP integrated payments takes credit card, ACH payments in-person or remotely
  • Integrated AP Automation– Accolent ERP integrated AP Automation allows management of vendor payments to save time and money on AP processing
  • Integrated BI and Data Analytics– Accolent ERP is integrated with Phocas Software a leading business intelligence and data analytics provider
  • Multi-currency– Supports for multiple currency transactions

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