Reporting

Omni Accounts is sold inclusive of a fully spec’d report writer and in excess of 250 preconfigured reports as standard.

Omni Accounts reporting capabilities offers you two aspects to reporting.  The first aspect is the ability to create spreadsheets (Grids) within Omni Accounts.  Gridding offers you the functionality of a typical spreadsheet, that being, it offers you the ability to move columns around, resize columns, sort columns into alphabetical and ascending and descending order, add or remove columns and save up to 5 different layouts per grid.  It also allows you to build hierarchies of data as well as export your information to MS Excel.

The second aspect to Omni Accounts report Writer is in the form of Omni Accounts actual Report Writer.  The Report Writer draws reports from Omni Account’s Report Library of over 250 different preconfigured reports.  The Report Writer offers you the ability to manipulate these preconfigured reports, the ability to group data as well as the ability to set various parameters and apply filters to the data.  The most difficult aspect is deciding what data you would like to see appearing on the report.

Should you require the ability to generate a pivot table within Omni Accounts or the ability to create a graphical representation of a report, Omni includes an Advanced Data Analysis tool which can provide this functionality.  Within the Advanced Data Analysis Tool, grouped fields will become columns; fields containing alphanumeric data will become rows and fields containing numeric data which can be totaled will become data.

Date Driven

Omni Accounts is a completely date-driven system.  This means that all processes are governed by the date entered into the system.

A financial year, like a calendar year is divided into periods, similar to months.  This allows owners, managers, investors and other similar stakeholders to compare the company’s current performance to past periods and annual figures.

In terms of month and year-end procedures, Omni Accounts offers a very user-friendly and intuitive month and year-end procedure.

Essentially what happens when processing a month or year-end in Omni Accounts, is that Omni Accounts makes your current Financial Period/Year your previous Period/Year and your next Financial Period/Year becomes your current Financial Period/Year.

Likewise the system archives your current budgets and brings your future budgets into the current period/year.

Because the Year End needs to be processed in order to continue to process, Year-End Adjustments provided by your accountant can be entered into the system via the Year-End Adjustment Mode and this can happen after the Year-End has been completed.

Adjustments entered in Year-End Adjustment Mode are flagged as Year-End Adjustments.  This means that you can print Financial Year-End Reports either inclusive or exclusive of the adjustments received from your accountants which you have entered under Year-End Adjustment Mode.

Importing and exporting data

You are able to import and export Stock Items, Customer and Supplier Accounts from one Omni Company and import them into another Omni Company.  This would mostly be used if you want to export just one set of account files for example Stock Items.

Omni Accounts also allows you to import the data above via a CSV file through MS Excel.  Once you have managed to export your data from your old accounting system, Excel offers you the ability to conduct any house-keeping which may be necessary, before you import this data into Omni Accounts.

Automation

In the event that you are running a mobile sales force and require synchronization and movement of data between Omni Accounts and their Hand-Held Devices or you require specific reports to be run automatically at specific times of the month or you require synchronization and the movement of data between your website and Omni Accounts, Omni Accounts Automation can provide you with the functionality you require.

With Omni Automation, it is possible to “call” Omni Accounts with several command line parameters in order to perform specific tasks and automate these with an “auto-parameter”.

Multiple Branch Accounting

Allows you to create multiple branch addresses which can then be attached to warehouses and used for inter-warehouse transfer documents.

Within the Nominal Ledger, you will be able to stipulate whether an account belongs to a particular branch or to the Head Office.  You will then be able to draw reports for the particular branch or for the company as a whole.  Likewise you will be able to assign each branch its own VAT number should that be required.