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Accounting Power

Score8.7 out of 10

21 Reviews and Ratings

What is Accounting Power?

Accounting Power is an accounting system sold to professional accountants, that aims to enable users to control every aspect of an accounting practice and can overcome the challenges imposed by accounting systems that are sold directly to clients.

in addition, Accounting Power includes capabilities for write-up and trial balance work and tools to create customizable financials, along with A/P, A/R, job costing, and inventory. Users can manage clients and their fiscal health from its dashboard.

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Accounting Power Homepage
Bill management
CAS Dashboard
CFO Dashboard
Pertinent Print Financials
Trial balance worksheet
Write-up

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Top Performing Features

  • Single sign-on capability

    The software system supports a centralized authentication mechanism allowing the user to access multiple systems with a single, centrally managed password.

    Category average: 8.8

  • Bank reconciliation

    The software connects to a company’s financial institutions in order to reconcile accounting records with checking, savings and credit card accounts. Often month and year closing capabilities are included.

    Category average: 8.5

  • Role-based user permissions

    Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.

    Category average: 8.8

Areas for Improvement

  • Dashboards

    Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Multi-division support

    The software is flexible and supports bookkeeping practices along multiple dimensions such as locations, branches or products.

    Category average: 8.6

  • API for custom integration

    An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.

    Category average: 8

Accounting Power--the really good, a little bad, and no ugly

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our firm provides bookkeeping and bill payment services to a range of clients throughout the U.S. It is used for all clients we provide these services to and to clients who want to do their own bookkeeping but want us to be there. It allows us to work with a variety of clients across the U.S. in a real-time manner. The information it provides allows us to provide higher services.

Pros

  • Simple layout
  • Logical menu and format
  • Flexibility in designing reports
  • Department/location accounting

Cons

  • CPA firm's client interface for delivery of bills to pay
  • Better ACH payment options for bill payment
  • Additional layer of department/location allocation
  • Invoicing option in mobile app

Return on Investment

  • Allowed for standardized processes
  • Improved efficiency in disbursement processing
  • Bank feed is easily broken
  • ACH payment options are not well established

Alternatives Considered

QuickBooks Online

Other Software Used

QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Self-Employed, QuickBooks Desktop Premier

Usability