FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT. Realise the future of your business today. EFFICIENT. INTELLIGENT. AGILE.

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1 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Realise the future of your business today. EFFICIENT. INTELLIGENT. AGILE.

2 SEE YOUR BUSINESS IN A NEW WAY REALISE THE FUTURE OF YOUR BUSINESS TODAY To stay competitive in today s global economy, you need more than simple financial accountability and compliance. A powerful financial management solution is the foundation to help you improve productivity, envision success, and accelerate growth. Financial-based businesses all depend on real-time visibility, collaboration, agility, and most of all compliance in order to achieve success. As your business looks for cost-effective ways to meet customer specifications and increase the bottom line, Sage 300 provides a highly adaptable solution that allows you to expand not only your product line, but also the number of locations and services you need to effectively meet customer expectations. With Sage 300, you ll keep your costs as low as possible with a comprehensive business management solution that supports multiple technologies and operating systems to keep your total cost of ownership low. Available in multiple editions, Sage 300 gives you the opportunity to add users and adopt greater functionality as your business grows and offers built-in support for multiple languages and multicurrency transactions, so your business can comfortably reach around the globe.

3 A WORLD-CLASS APPLICATION, SAGE 300 OFFERS: Superior architecture allows you to grow with the changing size of your business, customise easily to fit special needs, and offer flexible deployment options and languages. Ultimate scalability offers extensive customisation capabilities and the ability to easily add functionality when you need to. Anytime, anywhere access provides complete access to your accounting system through a standard web browser. Ease of use with intuitive wizards and a familiar interface make configuration and navigation a breeze. Multi-currency and multi-company capabilities help you effectively meet the most demanding global requirements. Flexibility to meet the needs of your specific business is provided by an easy-to-expand solution that offers a wide range of seamlessly integrated industry-specific solutions and a strong network of local certified partners dedicated to providing you with an end-to-end business management solution. Real-time key performance indicators give you an updated overview of your financial and operational performance every time you log on. A suite of prebuilt financial and operational reports that are easy to customise with your Sage 300 data.

4 BUILD YOUR BUSINESS ON A SOLID FOUNDATION Sage 300 helps you slash the time and cost of complex accounting and financial processes by redirecting your resources toward strategic activities that keep your business thriving. With Sage 300, your business can reduce costs and boost productivity with fast and accurate financial management. Sage 300 seamlessly connects your sales and service functions for streamlined, end-to-end financial management. Make confident business decisions based on accurate, comprehensive financial information. Easily manage global accounting operations and configure for country-specific localisation. Accelerate financial processes including quotes to cash, collections, and closes. Improve leverage of receivables and build working capital. Proactively manage risks and compliance; improve visibility, transparency, and accountability. The powerful financial tools of Sage 300 help you confidently manage your company s complex finances. include full multi-currency capability, payment processing, powerful bank reconciliation and tax reporting features, flexible transaction processing options, powerful management of fiscal periods, and informative dashboards for analytical reporting. Sage 300 Financial Management helps businesses succeed by accurately presenting valuable financial information in a clear, understandable format.

5 General Ledger Sage 300 provides the flexibility to meet the current and future financial management requirements of organisations of all types and sizes. It provides a robust feature set designed to handle your most demanding budgeting and processing needs. Built into the Sage 300 General Ledger module, the Financial Reporter Tool allows you to easily create accurate financial reports, such as an Income Statement Summary, Balance Sheet, or other Excel -based reports. The Financial Reporter is a powerful reporting tool that uses Microsoft Excel to manipulate, format, graph, and print general ledger data. Configurable general ledger account setup allows adoption of unique processes and best practices. Fully compliant with GAAP, FASB, and IFRS, including full transaction threading from submodules for comprehensive data auditing. Easily manage up to ten different account segments and store up to 99 years of financial history for detailed financial reporting. Create income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements instantly with the built-in financial report writer. Built-in business intelligence optimises financial management and analytics. Easily import transactions from other applications or export data. Efficiently handle multi-currencies with full control over transactions. Organise data for multilevel reporting. G/L security functionality enables organisations to control which users can view or use certain general ledger accounts based on segment validation in G/L security settings. Set access rights for single or multisegment validation or for single or multiple account validation. G/L Consolidations The G/L Consolidations feature lets you transfer and merge General Ledger account and transaction information between separate companies and branch office locations. It is also designed to enable subsidiaries and holding companies to run across different networks and accounting databases. G/L Consolidations allows your company to define the level of detail to consolidate and provides a comprehensive audit trail. The system is available in two versions: a full version for the head office and a remote-sites version for branch offices. Automatically perform currency translations and account for any resulting gains or losses.* Consolidate all accounts or a partial set of accounts using the automatic balancing account. Effortlessly consolidate, analyse, and report on multiple business units, subsidiaries, companies, and countries within your business. Manage financials, close books, and easily report results by company for multiple companies or in a consolidated company view. Consolidate multi-currency and single-currency accounts and general ledgers with different functional currencies.* Merge multiple subsidiary accounts into a single holding company account. Allocate transactions originating in a holding company back to subsidiaries. Translate amounts from the functional or source currency in the originating ledger and specify the translation rate type.* * With Multi-currency Manager installed.

6 Multiple Language and Localisation Support When operating in different countries, you need the ability to support the local language and accounting standards such as reconciliation and taxation. Sage 300 ships with five language overlays that allow you to configure the language of the software for individual users. You receive English, Spanish, French, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese out of the box. Use local language, tax and accounting rules through Sage 300 s seamless default settings and templates. Manage accounts receivable and accounts payable and pay your employees and pay tax in the local currency using local accounting standards. Consolidate financial data from subsidiaries into the ledger of record. Ensure all entries balance in the ledger of record when exchange rates change. Transaction Analysis and Optional Fields The Optional Fields feature provides complete support for unlimited optional fields throughout all Sage 300 applications. Optional fields allow you to customise your solution to provide comprehensive reporting and analysis capabilities that meet your unique business needs. You can manage information more effectively and easily obtain necessary data that applies to your business operations and practices. Define all required information for each General Ledger account, customer, vendor, item, transaction, and transaction detail. Easily record and track data from the originating transaction all the way through to your General Ledger. Define unlimited text, amount, date, time, integer, number, and yes/no optional fields for use in all Sage 300 applications.

7 Intercompany Transactions The Intercompany Transactions functionality simplifies and significantly reduces the amount of work required to record General Ledger and Accounts Payable transactions across multiple companies. Using this functionality, you can automatically distribute your transactions to the appropriate companies and corresponding intercompany loan accounts based on relationships you define. Automatically make loan account entries for intercompany transactions and distribute invoices to as many General Ledger accounts as required. Define relationships and record transactions between originating companies, intermediate companies, and destination companies having different functional currencies.* Enter transaction references and descriptions to provide a detailed audit trail for reconciliation purposes. Handle tax computations for expensed, allocated, or recoverable taxes. Print an intercompany loan account reconciliation report to identify errors between companies. Process intercompany General Ledger journal entries and intercompany Accounts Payable invoices, debit notes, and credit notes. Process multi-currency transactions for multi-currency or single-currency intermediate and destination companies.* Multi-currency Manager Businesses that want to succeed in the world market need core financial capabilities with the flexibility and power to handle the complexities of multi-currency enterprise. The system s Multi-currency functionality provides robust multicurrency and analysis capabilities so you can optimise your international opportunities. Maintain an unlimited number of currencies and exchange rate schedules, update exchange rates daily, and post realised and unrealised gains or losses due to currency fluctuations. Quickly convert foreign currency transactions to your home currency no matter how complex your multinational business is. Seamless integration throughout to automate your workflows, no matter how many currencies your company is managing. Adherence to IFRS, FASB-52, and IAS 125 guidelines. * With Multi-currency Manager installed.

8 Accounts Payable Easily manage your cash flow, track and predict purchases, and analyse expenditures and product purchases while maintaining good vendor relationships. Sage 300 Accounts Payable provides quick access to the type of comprehensive data that allows you to analyse the past, monitor the present, and plan for the future - helping you make the right decisions today to gain a competitive edge. Automated vendor-related tasks and simplified voucher entry help you save time and reduce administrative costs. The system accommodates multiple vendor addresses, multiyear history retention, automatic payment selection, cheque printing, and more. Easily import and export data. Powerful inquiries tools help you get customised AP information fast. Automatically distribute invoices to as many general ledger expense or asset accounts you require. Set up and schedule recurring payables for invoices paid on a regular basis. Calculate tax for vendor invoices or manually distribute tax. Manage expenses using sophisticated processing capabilities, flexible credit terms, and regulationcompliant audit tracking. Accounts Receivable and National Accounts Management Effectively manage your cash flow, track and predict customer buying patterns, analyse sales, and provide a superior level of customer service. Sage 300 allows you to gain complete control of your receivables and invoicing processes and leverage automatic calculations that avoid errors and eliminate duplicate data entry. Consolidate customer receivables, statements, reporting, and credit checking across national accounts. Organise customer records quickly and easily, and create an unlimited number of ship-to locations for each customer. Assign a member of a national account a different account set than the national account. Import transactions from other applications. Easily write off small overpayments by adjusting the receipt in Adjustments. Print Aged Trial Balance, Overdue Receivables, Customer Transactions, Customer List and Statistics, and General Ledger transaction reports using sorting and selection options to focus on desired transactions. Use inquiry screens and reporting to quickly view your customer information. Quickly drill down from the customer s transactions and receipts in Customer Activity to the originating transactions and receipts. With in-product credit card and debit card processing, funds can be available faster and in timely manner, leading to improved cash flows.

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10 Payment Processing With Sage 300, you ll effectively manage your cash flow and increase sales. Sage 300 allows you to process credit card transactions quickly, easily, and efficiently on a fully Payment Card Industry (PCI)-compliant payments platform. It boosts your productivity by reducing manual reconciliation effort and improves cash flow with guaranteed payments. Store multiple credit cards or debit cards for each customer Capture pre-authorised credit card payments in Order Entry Process credit card payments in Order Entry or Accounts Receivable Record receipt entries automatically in your Sage 300 system Instantly reconcile your bank statements with your transactions System Manager Bank Reconciliation To make effective decisions in today s fast-moving business climate, you need accurate, up-to-date information on your company s cash position, as well as reliable projections of future cash balances. The System Manager module in Sage 300 comes equipped with comprehensive bank reconciliation functionality, which enables you to quickly and accurately reconcile all of your bank accounts, as well as perform bank transactions with pinpoint accuracy. com/?ref=nav

11 Document Management Effectively manage the storage, retrieval, and flow of key information in your organisation. The document management solution^ allows you to electronically capture documents, streamline business processes using defined workflows, automate the routing and distribution of all printed documents, reports, and forms. Managing processes and transactions electronically provides quantifiable ROI and the tangible benefits of greater visibility and control. The document management solution brings greater financial control to payables processing from receipt of vendor invoices to voucher entry. With this solution, you can match purchase orders, receivers and vendor invoices directly from the desktop for quick reconciliation and resolution. Fixed Assets Management Manage your fixed assets and control your costs by efficiently utilising your resources. The fixed assets management solution^ is a complete asset management solution integrated with Sage 300. This powerful solution can be used to process asset accounting transactions, including acquisition, depreciation, adjustment, disposal, merge and split. The solution offers advanced functionality to facilitate asset maintenance and lease management. Manages the WIP and transfers WIP to asset. Provides formula-based depreciation calculation. Supports depreciation projection and reversal. Fully multi-currency support for acquisition and depreciation. Schedules maintenance activity and process maintenance expense. Manages asset lease contract and billing processing. Provides complete barcode-based asset tracking facility. Provides a multi-dimensional inquiry and reporting functionality. Manages meters and SLAs for equipment maintenance. A comprehensive fixed asset inventory and tracking solution supported by a sophisticated bar code system. ^ Offered as 3rd party add-ons to Sage 300.

12 Sage CRM Good customer relationship management is one of the key elements to become a successful market leader. Integrating the front end CRM system and the back end ERP system will result in greater automation, reporting and customer connectedness across your organisation. With the increased mobility of people across the world, access to critical information is crucial for making decisions related to pricing, discounts, or placing an order for your customers. Sage CRM allows you to access your CRM information instantly on your mobile device. Enable team members to respond to the needs of partners and suppliers within one system. AR Collections Manager helps you stay on top of the AR collections process, prioritise follow-up collections calls, and flag potential risks or trends early enough to be able to take corrective action. Credit approval workflow is automated so the accounting team doesn t have to chase paperwork, the sale can close more quickly, and, again, you can shorten order-to-cash time. Stay on top of vendor discounts, keep track of special contract arrangements, and process purchasing requests and quotes. A range of preconfigured alerts and notifications to ensure managers are getting real time updates on their business KPIs as they happen. New KPI charts to help you identify and measure your organisation s successful activities for greater sales performance analysis. Access your key CRM data anywhere, anytime on any mobile device. Self-Service Business Intelligence and Analytics An innovative and self-service business intelligence solution, Sage Enterprise Intelligence # is engineered for ease of use and performance. Sage Enterprise Intelligence s intuitive web user interface and advanced features provide instant access to enterprise-wide information, quickly and securely. Immediate access to real-time enterprise information from mobile devices. Simplify and accelerate the distribution of relevant information across your organisation. Self-service, ad-hoc operational reporting with multiple templates and drag-and-drop capabilities on mobile and web Empower any user to analyse and report on financial and operational data. Strong and easier way to create ad-hoc reports based on a larger library of reporting templates. More powerful dashboard capabilities through easy-touse/create cross-functional graphical analytics with drilldown capabilities. # Sage Enterprise Intelligence is an add-on to Sage 300c.

13 Flexible Excel Based Reporting With Sage 300 Intelligence Reporting, you have access to a suite of prebuilt financial and operational reports that are easy to customise with your Sage 300 data. You can analyse and create reports, filter and aggregate data, drill down to transactions, and automatically schedule and distribute reports. Using this feature helps you spend more time focusing on analysing and interpreting your information and less time pulling the data together. Use drag-and-drop formulas to easily create and manage your financial reporting. Develop in-depth financial, operational, customer, and vendor reports. Effortlessly consolidate data from multiple companies, divisions, and databases. Graphical report designer front-end with stronger report modification or customisation in Excel

14 EFT Payments Entering payments or collections data manually in your accounting system can be time consuming, or may lead to data duplication or errors. Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) gives you the flexibility to pay your vendors or to receive payments from your customers through the submission of electronic files to your banking institution. Automatically creates EFT files required by the bank for both payments and receipts. Creates Electronic Funds Transfer files in the format required by many major banks based on the standard Sage 300 Accounts Payable payment and customer refund routines. Creates Electronic Funds Transfer files for receipts (direct debits) from customers using receipt batches. Ability to define an EFT Clearing bank account to enable bank reconciliations by EFT transfer total. Works with numerous Bank formats worldwide. User definable Bank formats and screen labels to reflect Bank terminology. Revenue and Expense Deferrals by Systronics Offer your customers multiple pricing options such as subscription, one-time payment, providing greater flexibility to attract new customers. With Revenue and Expense Deferrals, we can simply deferring revenues or expenses and make entries in your Sage 300 system for future periods, ensuring the revenues and expenses match with the delivered value. : A highly efficient and fully automated deferral accounting solution that reduces the cost of manual processing and leaves no room for human error Handles a wide range of recognition schedules, calculation methods and business needs No dependency on spreadsheets Contains comprehensive reports with in-depth coverage of general aspects of deferral accounting Revenue and expense amounts are amortised and posted to designated Deferred Revenue or Deferred Expense accounts Amortised amounts are recognised and posted back to GL upon maturity, in predefined portions, according to the amortisation terms defined in Options Purchasing Workflow Whether you want to have different levels of authorisation for a Purchase Order or you want to send notifications to individuals when an approval action is needed, Purchasing Workflow provides a sophisticated workflow engine with configurable rules, routing and approval functions. A powerful and integrated requisition system for Sage 300 that can be used for controlling procurement in any organisation, Purchasing Workflow module has an easy-to-use requisition interface creates documents that are controlled through the workflow process. It enables organisations to tightly control and manage their procurement system. With Purchasing Workflow you can submit requests for approvals through a sophisticated set of configurable rules. Add functionality to check funds available against your company s budget, add document attachments and configure buying rules. Approval routine can be simple or advanced with criteria such as group approvals, specific people, value-limits, manager referrals and so on. Offered as 3rd party add-ons to Sage 300.

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