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For 14 years Cougar Mountain Software has been producing award-winning accounting software. ACTPlus packages are wide-spread within the industry and are the choice of discriminating CPAs and accountants.
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?

Cougar Mountain's ACTPlus is a fully-integrated affordably-priced, accounting and financial management software package for businesses. It delivers unparalleled flexibility and strength. ACTPlus includes 9 modules: General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Purchase Order, Payroll, Order Entry, Inventory, Check Reconciliation, and LYNX Import/Export.
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

With true multi-company capability, you can track different companies, subsidiaries, or departments separately, and still generate consolidated financial reports for the entire organization.
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.

Input each entry only once! ACTPlus is fully integrated, so an entry in Accounts Payable automatically posts to General Ledger, without having to handle the same entry twice!
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

With the cash requirement tracking in Accounts Payable, you can confidently manage your cash flow with up-to-the-minute reports on current payables, past-due payables, early payment discounts, and future payables.
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

Define and produce custom reports that meet all your requirements, including all standard accounting reports including income statements and balance sheets.
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.

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Modules of ACTPlus

General Ledger

Overview

General Ledger is the heart and soul of ACTPlus. All other modules post directly to General Ledger. View your total financial picture with up-to-the-minute reports. ACTPlus' General Ledger is the tool for complete financial management.
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
In addition, you can design your own custom reports with a report writer that is included with the software.
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Accounts Receivable

Overview

With Accounts Receivable, no receivable will ever slip through your fingers again. Accounts Receivable manages all outstanding receivables with user-defined aging period, dunning notices, and collections statements. You can set up credit limits for specified customers and ensure payment.
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
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Accounts Payable

Overview

Accounts Payable is a full-featured payable management system that tracks expenditures from invoice to check reconciliation. It easily manages your organization's check writing and check reconciliation. Accounts Payable makes cash management easy and ensures that you never pay too early or too late.
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

Look up information about any vendor including outstanding invoices, paid checks or master information from one screen.
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
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Purchase Order

Overview

Purchase Order helps manage purchases from the time you decide to buy something until you process an invoice for payment.
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

User-defined, plain paper, or laser PO forms
Expected Receipts of Products
Open Purchase Orders
Late Receipts
Vendor Performance
Inventory Labels
Item History Report
PO History Report
Receiving Report
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Payroll

Overview

Control your greatest expense easily and accurately. ACTPlus' Payroll offers the flexibility to match your payroll requirements exactly, no matter how unusual they seem. With user-defined tax tables and calculations, you can efficiently manage payroll processing.
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

Maintain necessary employee data to create a variety of 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
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Order Entry

Overview

Order Entry is a comprehensive sales module. With separate shipping and billing addresses, you can easily handle the most complex orders. Order Entry maintains all sales history so you can track cost, profit, and sales.
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
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Inventory

Overview

Control your inventory overhead with purchase date and sale date. Establish min/max values for each inventory item. Automatically order inventory when the min value is realized. Set up primary and secondary vendors that are organized by economic order quantities.
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
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Check Reconciliation

Overview

Check Reconciliation is a powerful self-audit module that reconciles bank statements with actual checks. Many businesses with limited Accounts Payable needs actually use Check Reconciliation for handling payables. Check Reconciliation prints checks, processes hand-written checks, and prints check registers.
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
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LYNX Import/Export

LYNX is a powerful ASCII file convertor that translates data from an external ASCII source, such as a database or a spreadsheet, and imports it into Cougar Mountain files. LYNX also exports data from Cougar Mountain files for use by another software package.
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