CPAs Increasingly Spurn Payroll Outsourcing in Favor of Best Software's Abra Suite.Business Editors RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 26, 2001 Best Software, Inc., developer of award-winning Abra(R) HR/payroll and FAS(TM) fixed asset solutions, announced today that PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) A data encryption program from PGP Corporation, Palo Alto, CA (www.pgp.com). Published as freeware in 1991 and widely used around the world for encrypting e-mail messages and securing files, PGP is available for commercial use and as freeware for Valuation Group and the Private Industry Council of Butte County Butte County can refer to any of the following:
"Both companies illustrate the movement away from traditional payroll outsourcing to the more robust new breed of payroll solutions like Abra Suite," said Susan Wanier, CPA (Computer Press Association, Landing, NJ) An earlier membership organization founded in 1983 that promoted excellence in computer journalism. Its annual awards honored outstanding examples in print, broadcast and electronic media. The CPA disbanded in 2000. and owner of Wanier Software Solutions, a leading Abra reseller. "When certified accounting professionals can legitimately prove a positive ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). , the decision to implement a similar solution really changes from `if,' to `when'." PGP Valuation Group, a Sacramento-based real estate appraisal Real estate appraisal An estimate of the value of property using various methods. firm, significantly reduced its payroll processing costs by nearly $8,000 - not only in service bureau fees, but also in staff time - year-over-year by moving to Abra Payroll(R). The company had been using a competing payroll service bureau A payroll service bureau is an accounting business whose main focus is the preparation of payroll for other businesses. Such firms are often run by Certified Public Accountants, though a typical payroll processing company will refer to itself as a service bureau rather than a CPA , but switched to Abra due to unresponsive customer service and growing expenses for unbundled payroll services. As a result, PGP has reduced its volume of reissued payroll checks by 95 percent and now benefits from integrated payroll and accounting systems. "Outsourcing payroll to service bureaus often involves losing control of your data," said Cheryl Mandich, CPA and chief financial officer for PGP. "And, when they make mistakes, it usually takes several months for them to be corrected. For businesses like ours, that is unacceptable." The Private Industry Council of Butte County (PIC), a non-profit agency that provides employment and training services to help individuals enter or re-enter re·en·ter also re-en·ter v. re·en·tered, re·en·ter·ing, re·en·ters v.tr. 1. To enter or come in to again. 2. To record again on a list or ledger. v.intr. the workforce, continually ran across payroll calculation errors, missed deadlines and problems on the part of its service bureau in integrating with its accounting software. "Abra Payroll helped reduce our payroll processing from two days to only two hours per pay period," said Kim Elam, CPA and controller for PIC. "This time savings allows me to spend additional time on more strategic decision-making based on Abra's detailed reports and cost analyses of our 600 employees." About Abra More than 15,000 companies in financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , healthcare and manufacturing, among many other industries, use award-winning Abra solutions. Best's "Abra, Anywhere" strategy is to provide customers with a comprehensive portfolio of desktop, client/server and Internet-based offerings that meets their specific access requirements. Abra Enterprise(TM), Abra Online(TM) and Abra Suite solutions automate and reduce HR/payroll and benefits administration costs and are based on technologies that are easy to adopt and use. They are designed to meet the changing access, scalability and feature needs of growing businesses, while providing similar capabilities and benefits of up-market solutions. About Best Software Best Software, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Sage Group plc, is a leading provider of solutions which help organizations transform the way they manage their human capital and fixed assets fixed assets npl → activo sg fijo fixed assets npl → immobilisations fpl fixed assets fix npl → . With more than 50,000 customers throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , it develops scalable, cost-effective solutions which complement core financial management systems and support the full spectrum of Microsoft platforms, including Windows(R) 95, Windows 98, Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. (R), Windows 2000 and BackOffice(R). For further information, call 800/368-2499, send an email to vacustserve@bestsoftware.com, or access our Web site at www.bestsoftware.com. Best, Best Software, the Best logo, Abra, Abra Payroll and Abra Suite are registered trademarks, and Abra Enterprise and Abra Online are trademarks, of Best Software. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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