Department/Area: GL/Accounts Receivable/Budget
SYSTEM MUST HAVES
MET? (Place a 0, 1, or 2 in the box next to each item to indicate how the vendor meets the requirement.)
0 = No
1 = Yes - with difficulty
2 = Yes
Note: All items in list for each category determined to be required and not rankable
General Ledger
  Flexible GL account structure (including alphanumeric) to tract by various elements (desire >=5) and to drill down
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  Ability to control posting to a GL account by module
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  For reporting, way to link together related account numbers
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  Ability to terminate and reopen inactive GL accounts
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  Friendly method to manage and report FASB116/117/124 etc.
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  Ability to efficiently process recurring journal entries and reversals--accts remain same but amounts and descriptions may change
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  Ability to perform data query & drill down in a transparent manner into multiple data sources
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  On-line interface for processing (entries, approvals), Macintosh support
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  Accept and send data to all other modules (internally and third party) (gl, registration, other) seamlessly in real time--an integrated system
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  More flexibility and ease of use in any GL field selection/defining for reporting/querying
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  Interface to support posting of interdepartmental charging for functions such as printing, telecom, post office, book store, catering, food service, lodging in an automated way.
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  Fiscal agent for writing checks as separate tax entities
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  Ability to perform accounting functions for multiple fiscal entities
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  Ability to track (from purchase to disposal) fixed assets and depreciation
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  Account reconciliation, interface with banks in real time and batch
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  Friendly interface for non-accounting users for variance analysis etc (Macintosh support)
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  Custom report writer that enables extraction of desired fields
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  Be able to export/import and merge data to/with other applications
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  Provide support for all govt mandated requirements/reporting (990(T), 1099, 1042, 941, 1098(T,E))
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  GL field level validation across all modules and fiscal periods at point of data entry
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  Prepost reporting for error identification and summary of the entry
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  Ability to process multiple time periods simultaneously
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  To have solid audit trail for all accounting transactions
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  Ability to post totals or balances from subsidiary to the general ledger resulting in details being stored in the sublevel
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  Quickly review history for at least 7 years
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  Flexible and easy GL closing and balance forwarding, multiple times
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  Ability to have site assigned numbers as opposed to auto-assigned
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  Report by non-fiscal year periods
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  Ability to compare budget to actual in data entry process, by line item and groups of line items
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Allocation
  Ability to automatically allocate expenses (e.g., overhead) prior to printing the financial statements.
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  Ability to use a formula or percentage to compute the required allocation of expenses to various cost centers.
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  Ability to define allocations for major groups of data
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  Ability to have the system maintain department totals and allocate from them.
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  Ability to have allocations performed by the system as the transactions are entered.
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Accounts Receivable
  Invoicing (ability to adjust), subsidiary ledger, including recurring invoices
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  Ability for aging reporting with reminder tickler system, ability to generate collection letters and labels
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  Production of sales orders that in some cases drive invoicing
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  Web-based invoicing and payment of invoices (sending links via email for external viewing) and integration of web-based retail sales
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  Ability to charge late fees or interest by customer type
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  Maintain separate accounting entities within AR
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  Multilevel user access (permissions)
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  Forms/invoices that fully customizable including logos, font sizes, etc
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  Import/export capability from external applications such as bank lock box
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  Comment field both on the screen and in reports
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  Multilevel (by customer ) set up with subprojects or jobs and the ability to deliniate customer types
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  Print forms or reports by single or multiple customers, with various output options (e.g., fax and email)
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Budgeting
  Ability to accommodate a zero-based and activity-based budget approach
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  Budget for non-fiscal period and for multi-years
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  On-line reporting that is available to budget manager for inputing and comparison to historical budget
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  Able to do modeling at account code level, place to store explanatory notes
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  Ability to differentiate budget types/categories (e.g., capital
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  Ability to spread annual budget amounts to months, quarters
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  Budget wages, salaries, and benefits according to current run rate and open position
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  Reporting rollups by departments and responsible persons
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  On-line buget approval process, budget adjustments with audit trail
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  Ability to budget and report according to key indicators (FTE, FTE/depart, number of SS, revenue by major,etc)
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  Budget at balance sheet level
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Reporting
  On cost and market value
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  Ad hoc query/reporting capability
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  Web-based reporting capability to enable remote report generation
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Other
  Vendor support, online documentation, technical bulletins, training
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  Appropriate security such as permissions strength and flexibility. Must be manageable by appropriate persons, preferably by departmental staff
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  Tie in of permissions records with ldap database
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  Easy to maintain administratively
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  Site selectable data migration
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  Work order processing capability
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Additional Functionality--minimally tell us 'yes' or 'no'
  Fixed Assests/Depreciation
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  Account reconcilation
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  Pledge receivable module, including ability to satisfy FASB requirements
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  Grant accounting
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  Invoicing
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  E-commerce
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  Work Order Processing
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  Unitized endowment tracking and support
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DEMO TOP RANKED IN PART BY SHOWING THE FOLLOWING
No specific requests