Accounting Today: A suggestion for Microsoft!

Microsoft often touts the capabilities of Excel, especially to the accounting and financial community. If they really wanted to show how robust and capable it was, they would distribute a copy of AFP5 along with the Office application. This trial balance software really shows off what you can accomplish with Excel.

Accounting Today: Another Great Review for AFP!

Installing AFP4 is a snap, and client set-up is fast and easy. The software comes with a well-written manual, and each worksheet contains instructions at the top of the page on how to use the specific sheet. ...you'll be pleasantly surprised at how robust and feature-rich this trial balance application is.

CGA Magazine Reviews Accounting For Practitioners and Caseware: Both are Winners!

Setting up files in AFP is quick and easy. You enter the base data about the client, the accounting period, and the type of engagement into the designated cells, and choose your file name and location before running the save routine from the AFP Menu. The information entered is used in creating document headings, as well as CGA-specific engagement and representation letters and accountants' communications. Navigation is straightforward and you are given the option of using Excel's standard tabbed interface or hiding the tabs and going with the AFP menu.

CA Magazine looks at working paper software

It is amazing how many accountants, especially small practitioners, still manually prepare most of their working papers, using a word processor to generate financial statements. Tempting as it is to dismiss the reluctance to embrace technology as a resistance to change, the reality is many have spent lots of time and money on productivity promises in the past and have little or nothing to show for it. The good news is working-paper software has evolved dramatically over the past few years and you no longer need be a programmer to adapt the software to your specific requirements..

Pendock looks for the 'wow factor'

A Toronto software firm that specializes in Microsoft Excel-based products has gained the quiet respect of professional accountants across Canada who have purchased, and are using, its bilingual Accounting for Practitioners trial balance and working paper program.

Managing By the Numbers Comes of Age

Financial statements for most small business owners are historical documents. What they live and die by is their cash flow and most small to medium accounting software solutions have been sadly lacking in the area of cash flow reporting and forecasting. But that situation is changing dramatically.

Accounting For Practitioners is Excel-Based. 4 1/2 Star Rating

Accounting for Practitioners Version 4 (AFP) from Pendock Mallorn Ltd. (800-567-4500; www.pendock.com) is an Excel-based system for preparing trial balance and lead sheet information quickly and easily. Using the Excel interface, the workbook provided is a highly customized workbook that uses Visual Basic to supercharge the normal Excel environment. To say that this is merely a spreadsheet would greatly understate the power and flexibility of the system.

Pendock Mallorn's AFP taps power of Excel.

Pendock Mallorn has released a major upgrade to its client engagement software - Accounting For Practitioners (AFP) - that uses a model approach, combined with the power of Excel.

Financial Forecasting - Today's Crystal Ball Is Digital.

There's a software package to fit every company's Budget. Here's what to keep in mind when selecting one. Brian Smith, financial controller of Reuven Meat Products Ltd. in Paris, Ontario still recalls the days of doing cash flows with pencil and paper. But a few years ago, the CA made the switch to a financial forecasting software package. "It's great," he says. "It saves me a lot of time when I have to do projections for the bank."

Financial Forecasting - It's All About Teamwork

PFP Modula looks at the future

Pendock Mallorn's financial forecasting model, Pro-forma Plus (PFP) has a long and successful track record as a complete financial forecasting solution for accounting professionals who need to prepare budgets and bank-ready forecasts.