Changes in General Ledger 5.4

General Ledger 5.5 includes the following new features and improvements:

• Changes to product and edition names.

  ACCPAC Advantage Series General Ledger is now Sage Accpac ERP General Ledger.

  • The Enterprise Edition is now Sage Accpac ERP 500.
  • The Corporate Edition is now Sage Accpac ERP 200.
  • The Small Business Edition is now Sage Accpac ERP 100.
• Changes to General Ledger account groups.
  • You can now create an unlimited number of your own account groups to assign to General Ledger accounts.
  • You can change the descriptions of the standard account groups that are shipped with G/L to personalize them for your own business.
  • You can now delete account groups you created or delete any of the standard ones shipped with G/L that you are not using.
  • There is a new standard blank account group, with the description, "Unclassified Account Group", with Sort Code ZZZZZZZZZZZZ. If you do not wish to specify the account group when creating an account, you can choose this.
  • When you convert from ACCPAC Plus for DOS, if you do not select the Use Account Groups option on the G/L Conversion window, all accounts converted will have a blank account group, which is the default account group. However, the existing 16 account groups from 01 to 16 will still be created.
  • If you want to print a set of common account groups but not other account groups in reports, you can now give the same sort code to all account groups in the set, specify printing by sort code order, and then choose the sort code of that set.
  • You can sort statements by Account Sorted Group and select account groups by Sort Code Range in:
  • The G/L Print Financial Statements report, and in
  • The FR View function of the G/L Statement Designer.
• Enhancements to General Ledger reports.
  • You can now exclude accounts with no activity when printing the G/L Chart of Accounts report.
  • You can sort the following reports by the sort code of account groups when you select the option, "Select Account Groups by Sort Code Range":
    • Chart of Accounts report
    • Trial Balance report
    • Transactions Listing report
    • Source Journal report
    • Transaction Details Optional Fields report

  • The G/L Batch Listing report now includes the General Ledger Account Description, and, for a multicurrency database, if you select Functional Currency, you can also include Reference and Description details and Comments.

    This is also the case when you select the Source and Functional currency option; however, if you then select the Letter/A4 paper type, you cannot include Reference, Description, and Comments details, as those options will not be available.

• Improved consolidation in Financial Reporter.

  FR can consolidate by \\acctgroup (account group) and by \\acctgroupsort (account sorted group).

• Improvements to optional fields.
  • You can set an optional field as Required without also requiring a default value. (You must also set the Auto Insert option for the required optional field to Yes.)
  • Optional fields now appear in the list of fields displayed when you use Finders.
• Preview new year.

  You can view the year to be created on the G/L Create New Year screen.

• Automatic refresh of information on Inquiry screens.

  We have removed the Go button from the G/L Account History Inquiry, Source Currency Inquiry, and Transaction History forms. General Ledger displays results automatically when you change any input field.