Features of Bengel Accounting Software.

Basic features

General ledger

• Open general ledger accounts, account classes and groups

• Record journal entries and budget entries

• Generate ledger accounts detailed enquiries with drill down reports

• Make journal enquiries with an option to view journal entries

• Closes the fiscal year and brings forward retained earnings

• Record depriciation entries on period based

• Make journal entries with corresponding entry in supplier / customer account

• Filter General Ledger reports by dimensions

• Quick entries (preset GL transactions) in bank deposit/payment, journal entry and supplier invoice/credit

• Ability to enter a back dated transaction.

Cash and Bank

• Open Bank and Petty Cash Accounts

• Record payments, deposit and withdrawals in related accounts

• Various currencies can be added and foreign currency translation is also done

• Record bank enquiries and reports

• Prepare bank accounts reconciliation

• Transactions can be made void and reprinted

Sales and Accounts Receivables

• Open Customer Accounts and Customer Branches

• Make Sales Areas, Sales Types, Sales Groups, Salesman Groups

• Make Sales Groups for grouping Customer Branches

• Prepare Sales Quotations (with inquiry and creating of Sales Orders)

• Prepare Sales Orders and Goods Delivery Notes

• Prepare Customer Invoices and Credit Notes

• Make Batch Invoicing for more than one delivery order.

• All of the Sales documents are completely editable and printable

• Point of sales definitions for better handling of cash sales

• Customer Payments and Allocations

• Company logos can be attached to sales documents

• Dimensions can be selected for Sales Delivery and Invoices

• Shipping Costs and Legal Text can be added to Invoices

Purchase and Accounts Payable

• Open Supplier accounts

• Make Purchase Orders, Goods Receival Notes and Payment Terms

• Clearing of Goods Receival Notes

• Entry of Supplier price lists & related conversion factor into purchase prices

• Prepare Debit Notes and record Credit Notes from Suppliers

• Supplier Payments and Allocations

• Company logos can be attached on documents

• Option of attaching scanned documents with transactions

Inventory and Stocks

• Record Stock Items

• Define Item Categories and Item Locations

• Record location transfers and other adjustments

• Set re-order levels for Inventory Items

• Automatic calculation of average material cost (per unit)

• Application of standard and overhead costs, into material prices

• Quantity of Items can be measured into standard units

• Foreign codes registration for barcode scanner entry

Manufacturing

• Prepare bills of materials, Work Center inquiries and Work Order entries

• Feasibility of adding advanced production and simple assembling features

Reports

• Print, Email and Convert into PDF; all the reports

• Export the reports in MS Excel/Open Office Calc format

• Generate reports on periodic and financial years basis

• Email documents directly to customers

• Make graphical analysis (Horizontal/Vertical Bars, Dot Lines, Pies and Donuts)

• Tag and save report selections

Access levels and adaptation

• Different companies can be set-up simultaneously

• Separate financial years can be created and closed against entries

• Multi user access with different privileges

• Make backups and restore for companies

• Date Picker with week numbers for all date fields

• Simple Audit Trails

• Extensions for customizing menu tabs and applications

Advanced Features

Multi-Currency Support

• Historical Currency Rates

• Multi-Currency Bank Accounts, Customers And Suppliers

• Multi-Currency needs improvement at transaction level - For every sales transaction currency is stored in related customer data. To change this you will have to add currency in sales transaction (sales_order/debtor_trans record) and use customer setting only as default for new transaction. Beside this you will have to extend upgrade routines and standard sql database script en_US-demo/en_US-new. All the work should not take more than a couple of hours (plus tests). The same have to be done probably on purchase side.

Advanced GST/VAT handling

• GST/VAT can be selected on Customer, Supplier and Item basis

• Advanced GST/VAT report for details and outputs/inputs

Language and Calendar Support

• Multi language support with right to left support in Arabic language

Other Details

• Every document can be emailed and printed simultaneously

• PDF can be formatted for every document

• Projects, Cost Centers, Departments can be added, using Dimensions