Until recently I produced accounts for my clients using an old accounting software package ( which is easy to use) and then simply lifted the trial balance and manually entered the figures into the 'Working Trial Balance' within Caseware accounts. This has served me well for quite some time. However, it is obviously more efficient to produce a Trial Balance using Excel spreadsheets and (hopefully) at the click of a button, automatically uplift the figures into Caseware. There's a trade-off, initially, in that using Excel may take longer than using my antiquated accounting package; on the other hand feeding the figures manually into Caseware takes around 30 minutes, instead of a few second( I would hope). Do we have any Caseware users who have gone down this path? How would I most easily go about doing this? Any tips?
Thanks.
STEPHEN DODSON
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Caseware
I used Caseware in South Africa. One of the add-ins was a fully useable accounting add-in with management account reporting
My understanding is in any case that you can use it as a bookkeeping program albeit limited compared to Pastel and Accpac
worth remembering
that CASEWARE is particularly good at importing data, whether that is a TB, or a set of transactions, and via its mapping functionality reanalysing chart of accounts to the caseware format. Excel is one possible import, but it can take many others. When I used to use caseware I regularly captured client TBs from many different ledger applications, and imported them to CASEWARE.
For those of a nervous disposition I think that the CASEWARE suppliers used to be a good source of information/help. http://www.credencesoftware.co.uk/