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ACT Plus

Overview	General Ledger
Accounts Receivable	Accounts Payable
Purchase Order	Payroll
Order Entry	Inventory
Check Reconciliation	LYNX Import/Export

From the beginning, Cougar Mountain has been dedicated to providing the best value in flexible and comprehensive accounting software. Today there are over 20,000 organizations using Cougar Mountain Software!

What is ACTPlus?

ACTPlus automatically handles all the complex transactions demanded of an accounting system including inventory management, cash flow management, easy payroll, true network capability, and flexibility.

Powerful Accounting

ACTPlus supports serialized inventory, so you have itemized control over your inventory.

Easily comply with IRS tax reporting requirements. Track by cash accounting or accrual. Maintain your inventory valuation based on LIFO, FIFO, weighted average, or actual cost. Generating the information you need for your taxes will be a few keystrokes, rather than several weeks work.

Audit trails trace your activities and help you easily conform to generally accepted accounting practices.

Many powerful warning notices and blocks prevent you from committing an entry error to your general ledger.

Make your job easier.

Entries are made on-line, and account detail and balances are always available. ACTPlus lets you take a snapshot of your total financial picture with valuable up-to-the-minute reports.

On-line help is available throughout the system and "hot keys" rapidly select from option lists.

ACTPlus' powerful and comprehensive Payroll module eliminates the burdensome payroll computations that you must do each and every pay period. Taxes, benefits, and deductions are all computed automatically with complete user control on setup. Then at period end, the touch of a button prints your 941s, W-2s, W-3s, etc.

More than Accounting, ACTPlus is a powerful management tool

Manage inventory with comprehensive tracking and reporting that will give the ability to maintain only the inventory stock that you need. Never again have inventory sitting on the shelf for 6 months, costing you money and cutting into your profit margin.

Powerful Reporting Capabilities

Obtain timely, accurate, up-to-date reports for management, boards, and accountants. ACTPlus provides financial reporting by department, subsidiary, or the whole company.

Transfer data back and forth and interface easily with spreadsheets and databases.

Comply with legal obligations as well as your own service objectives for separating and reporting on each different subsidiary and company.

ACTPlus fully supports all standard reports and forms including the 941, W-2, W-3, 1099 misc., invoices, statements, purchase orders, and checks.

Overview

Design your own chart of accounts, make journal entries, enter and adjust budgets. Account details and balances are always available. Audit trails track your activities and help you confidently conform to generally accepted accounting practices. Transactions are automatically numbered for easy identification.

Custom Setup

• Create a General Ledger to exactly match your financial requirements.
• ACTPlus enables you to design your own account structure up to 15 alphanumeric characters.
• You decide how to structure your departments, cost centers, or projects to obtain the reports you need.

Easy Operations

• Define the names and number of accounts you need.
• Maintain multiple subsidiary ledgers.
• Inter-department transfers and balancing are automatically performed to keep each department, as well as the entire ledger, in balance; avoid the effort of determining when and how the ledger became unbalanced.

Cost Allocation

• Easily distribute your organization's costs from pooled accounts to specific cost centers.
• Allocation tables automatically distribute by percentage or dollars, across multiple accounts or departments according to the periods you choose.

General Ledger Reports

• Balance Sheet
• Income Statement
• Posting Audit Reproduction
• Trial Balance
• Chart of Accounts
• Audit Trail

Overview

Custom Setup

• Set up a customer list with complete customer information.
• Print a Customer Master Report to ensure entry accuracy.
• Sort your list and print it out by zip code, type field, etc.
• You can even set up different terms for different customers.

Powerful and Easy

• With aged analysis and complete customer histories, you can target your collection efforts.
• With a powerful collection code, you are prompted if a customer with an aged credit attempts to purchase again.
• Print customer labels for statements, direct mail efforts, newsletters, etc.
• Easily handles partial payments. You can apply payment to a certain invoice or oldest invoice with look up windows.

Accounts Receivable Reports

• Customer List
• Master Report
• Collection Report
• Aged Analysis Report
• Control Report
• Customer Labels

Overview

Custom Setup

• Set up up your vendor list with complete vendor information and print a Vendor Master Report to ensure entry accuracy.
• Customize check formats. Use the defaults or identify your own.

Powerful and Easy

• Automatically posts to General Ledger and Check Reconciliation.
• Expenses can be allocated across 250 different accounts by a dollar amount or by percentage.
• Add/Change-on-the-fly. Enter information only once.
• Automatically take discounts when available. Record invoices by due date and discount due date.
• Use recurring obligations for repetitive invoices such as rent or maintenance agreements.
• Select invoices to pay by due date, vendor, account number, etc.
• Easily handles partial payment.
• Complete 1099 Misc. Form integration including magnetic media.

Cash Requirements

• Maintain complete control over your cash requirements with forecasting and aged analysis.
• Cash Requirement Report provides you complete information about upcoming requirements.
• Automatically prepare payment from the Cash Requirements Report.

Accounts Payable Reports

• Cash Requirements
• Check Register
• Vendor List
• Distribution Report
• Future Liability Report
• 1099 Misc. forms or magnetic media
• Overdue Report
• Status Report
• Checks
• Master Report
• Control Report
• Prepaid Report
• Vendor Labels

Overview

Powerful and Easy

• Optional posting of commitments at user-defined stages.
• Enter information only once. All information posts directly to Accounts Payable and General Ledger.
• Add/Change-on-the-fly vendors.
• Define recurring obligations for repeat purchases.
• Create "hold" on purchase orders.
• Easily reprint PO any time from the open file or from the Purchase Order history file.
• Pre-assign Purchase Order numbers or issue at printing.
• Tracks items such as promised date vs. actual date, quoted cost vs. actual cost, etc.

Purchase Order Reports

• Expected Receipts of Products
• Open Purchase Orders
• Late Receipts
• Vendor Performance
• Inventory Labels
• Item History Report
• PO History Report
• Receiving Report

Overview

Custom Setup

• Pay employees in one payroll run or use separate runs.
• Combine multiple payment types including hourly, salary, overtime, and shifts into a single payroll run.
• Manage a large number of benefits including a cafeteria style plan.
• Exclude some earning types, such as overtime or bonuses, from benefit calculations or distribution.

Powerful and Easy

• Carry accrued vacation and sick hours forward to the new year; limited maximum amounts carry forward.
• Accrue dollar values of vacation payable and post to GL.
• Charge payroll to multiple accounts.
• Automatically post to General Ledger at the same time data posts to Payroll.
• Offers accrual payroll.
• Calculate Benefits and Deductions based on fixed amount (insurance premium), hours amount (vacation leave accrual), percentage of gross (retirement), or variable amount.
• User-defined pay period.
• User-defined earnings tax sheltering (401(k), cafeteria plans, etc.)
• Automatically posts payroll expenses to Accounts Payable (e.g. FICA payments).
• Add/Change-on-the-fly employee information.
• On-line Direct Deposit software included for the ease of paperless payroll.
• User-defined benefits and deductions for each employee.
• Additional tax withholding for any employee at the federal, state, or local levels.
• Maintains employee history for month-to-date, quarter-to-date, and year-to-date.
• Up to 66 pay rates per employee or percentage distribution of pay.

Payroll Reports

• W-2 and W-3 to form or magnetic media
• 941
• Payroll Checks
• Payroll Reports sorted by department
• Timesheets
• Payroll Check Register
• Transaction Posting Audit
• Quarterly Compensation Report
• Employee List
• Employee Earnings Report
• Employee Benefit/Deduction/Tip Report
• Employee History Report
• Taxable Wage Report

Overview

Custom Setup

• Customize your entry screen by only prompting for information that you need to order.
• Invoice formats are fully customizable to fit your invoice style.

Easy Operations

• With notepads for both customers and inventory, you can track ideas and notes. Two levels of online help keep you working.
• After the order is entered, all information is automatically posted to General Ledger, Inventory, and Accounts Receivable.
• Track back orders and special orders.
• Store and print quotes.

Order Entry Reports

• Inventory Reserved Report
• Inventory Back Order Report
• Back Order Allocation Report
• Detail History Report
• Sales Analysis Report
• Invoices
• Packing Slips

Overview

Easy Operations

• All information is brought into Inventory through Purchase Order and Accounts Payable. Ordering is automatically posted to Order Entry or Point of Sale.

Inventory Reports

• Master Report
• Physical Inventory Sheets
• Price Book Report
• Understock Report
• Overstock Report
• On Order Report
• Back Order Report
• On Hand Report
• Value Report
• Activity Report
• Movement Report
• Control Report
• Inventory Labels

Overview

Powerful and Easy

• Easily integrate Accounts Payable and Payroll to Check Reconciliation so that checks written from both modules post directly to Check Reconciliation.
• Processes hand-written checks.
• Easily convert from manual or other automated system.
• Quick transaction entries.
• Defines recurring obligations for repeat purchases.

Check Reconciliation Reports

• Check Register
• Missing Check Report
• Outstanding Check Report
• Check Report
• Deposit Report