A small business accounting software from Davis Software.
BS/1 Accounting is a small business accounting software providing an integrated accounting system that includes accounts payable, accounts receivable, a general ledger, inventory control, and sales analysis. The software is typically used by small to medium-sized businesses.
The Accounts Payable system tracks vendor invoices and payments.
When setting up vendors you specify the currency, thereby setting the currency for their invoices. The Open Payables Report and Accounts Payable Invoices Screen allow currency selection, so you can see how much you owe in each currency. You set up at least one bank account for each currency. The Bank Book shows transactions and balances for each bank account.
The accounts payable software assigns the (default) due date for each invoice based on the vendor’s terms. Intelligent Payment Management is facilitated by an option to ýAutoCreateý cheques for all invoices due for a selected currency. These may later be modified or deleted. Cheques can be computer printed or hand-written. The system allows reconciliation of cheques returned from the bank and tracking of void cheques.
An integrated phone dialer is available by right-clicking on vendors, invoices, or cheques.
Accounts Payable data is passed to the General Ledger software automatically via Journal Vouchers with expenses converted from foreign currency to domestic currency. You can trade globally in multiple currencies while your books remain in domestic currency.
The Accounts Receivable system tracks customer invoices and payments.
When setting up customers you specify the currency, thereby setting the currency for their invoices. The Aged Trial Balance Report and Accounts Receivable Invoices Screen allow currency selection, so you can see how much is owed to you in each currency. You set up at least one bank account for each currency. The Bank Book shows transactions and balances for each bank account.
Accounts receivable invoices are not purged when fully paid, but are instead retained for sales analysis reporting. Sales taxes are calculated automatically and are very flexible to facilitate VAT, GST, PST, HST, etc. in various countries. Accounts receivable invoices can be computer printed or hand-written. Invoices print on plain paper to facilitate faxing and to avoid the expense of pre-printed forms.
The ýopen itemý method is used to apply payments against specific invoices. Adjustments, discounts, and write-offs can be entered when entering the payment info.
An integrated phone dialer is available by right-clicking on customers, invoices, or payments.
Accounts receivable data is passed to the General Ledger software automatically via Journal Vouchers with revenues converted from foreign currency to domestic currency. You can trade globally in multiple currencies while your books remain in domestic currency.
The General Ledger system tracks budget and actual financial data to produce financial statements such as an Income Statement and Balance Sheet, the Trial Balance Report, General Ledger Report, GL Totals Screen, GL History Screen, and the Bank Book.
Data is passed to the general ledger from the AP and AR automatically via Journal Vouchers with expenses and revenues converted from foreign currency to domestic currency. You can trade globally in multiple currencies while your books remain in domestic currency.
Data is keyed directly to the general ledger via Journal Vouchers to record
Year-end closing entries for the general ledger are generated by the software.
The Inventory system tracks inventory stock levels and costing.
Inventory is received via receipts and depleted via sales. Warehouse transfers, physical count corrections, and reduction of inventory due to spoilage/breakage, theft and samples, etc. are entered via adjustments.
BS1 Accounting is a free to download small business accounting software with basic features. The full version includes free support and free updates for a one-time cost of $139.
I have been using it for almost a year now. Changed from Sage because I don’t wish to pay their subscription fee. BS/1 does all that a GL needs to do. I am an accountant by education so form is important to me. The free verision is not really the best, but it gets by, I used it for a year to see if I would like it. I plan to pay for the upgrade so I can format the reports the way I like. I would recommend it.
It is free or for more flexible system, low cost and does everything that an expensive one does for a small business. It is simple to use and takes a minumim of accounting experience to use, but is good enough for those wanting more. The journal entry takes getting used to, especially the period entry. It would be nice if it remembered what period you were in last time it was opened.
the period entry should be remembered and only need to be entered when a new period is started or you have to look back
I ran the FREE General Version for a small accounting company task. (An easy ledger )
BS1 worked well for the purpose.
BS1 however wants you to shill upgrade to the paid version. If you stumble on issues. Say you overwrite or mispost your journals, due largely as a inexperienced user, you cannot clear previous account or JV’s in error without and upgrade service. Or try restore your backups? Or in my case, and innocuous upgrade (cued by BS1) invalidates your (in my case assiduously well maintained) backups without the upgrade service.
I’d gladly buy the upgrade, it is the reason I am testing the software, but I truly feel they are trying to entrap me into a subscription.
I cannot trust that BS1 will not do the same when OR if I upgrade to a paid service.
I am looking for a reliable ledger, not some company trying to trick me into tiers of subscription.
So be well warned before you invest 100’s of hours into a scam.
Try some other product.
It is a fairly straightforward.
The JV’s can be tedious to enter. A “block input” would be better rather than line by line? Suggestion.