Choose wisely with your accounting software

A lot can be gained from making the right choice when deciding on your company’s financial administration (in Finnish: taloushallinto) software. With the right choice for your company’s needs, it will not only help you reduce human errors in your calculations, but it will help you gain insights into your business that you couldn't see in paper form, for example, generating sales forecasts for the next quarter and pinpointing your least profitable service.

The tools and features of the software are not the only needs your company should be considering, but also the technical solution that the software has been built upon. The main alternatives are a stand-alone or a web-based software. There are benefits to both and there is software that is to a certain extent a combination of the two. The web-based alternatives are more a new breed of accounting applications that have become increasingly popular during the last few years.

Such a financial administration software comes from the software developer ProCountor. Its software is the market’s most comprehensive accompanied with a wide-spread network of professionals and co-operating partners. Managing financial administration is a team game: ProCountor works in close co-operation with leading professionals, supports its clients and helps develop the relationship between its clients and their accountants.

ProCountor also offers a wide variety of all the tools needed for a company’s efficient financial administration, among others billing, ledger management and bookkeeping. Sending invoices is done directly through postal services, online billing or email. Because of the event based charging, you pay for the accounting (in Finnish: kirjanpito) software according to how much you actually use it.

ProCountor Partner Programme

The ProCountor software offers companies the best possible outcome from a partnership with a skilled accounting agency. By using the same software, a company and accounting agency can better their co-operation and ease the distribution of work. Communication between parties is also better and the accounting agency can offer its client the best possible service.

The ProCountor Partner Programme enables accounting agencies to complete their service offering with ProCountor products and develop their electronic financial administration (in Finnish: taloushallinto) skills. The transition to a financial administration software is both a major benefit and a challenge, and the ProCountor Partner Programme is aimed to ease that transition and help its user in getting the most out of the software.

The ProCountor Partner Programme is open to all accounting agencies that fulfil the requirements. An accounting agency can start at the partner level from which it can develop to a certified partner and even further to an authorised partner. Each development to a new level is awarded with new benefits just as each level has its own set of requirements that need to be met to achieve it.

The ProCountor financial administration software comprises of an abundance of tools including all the basics you’ll need for your financial administration additional to a number of advanced tools. These include all tools to manage your accounting from mapping all your accounts to writing up all receipts, to managing your bookkeeping and archiving. The software also includes a comprehensive set of bank connections to take care of all you payment needs such as paying travel and expense claims, paying salaries and foreign transactions as well as receiving, managing and bookkeeping all your electronic bank statements.

ProCountor – Purchase, Sales and Payments

ProCountor is a web-based financial administration software (in Finnish: taloushallinto ohjelma) that is available for use anytime and any place. Starting to use the software is easy and fast, and you automatically receive all version updates, back-ups and the safe-keeping of all of your data. Adding new users is quick and free so the software can be taken into use for the entire company. Additionally, you receive a complimentary Helpdesk service and a comprehensive online manual.

Founded in 2001, ProCountor International Oy is now part of the Pretax Corporation as an integral part of its software business unit. ProCountor is a Finnish company that has developed the market’s most comprehensive financial administration software along with a wide-spread network of professional accounting agencies (in Finnish: tilitoimisto) and co-operating partners with over 100 member agencies.

ProCountor offers all the tools needed for efficient billing, ledger management and bookkeeping. Sending invoices is done directly through postal services, online billing or email. Because of the event based charging, you pay for the financial administration (in Finnish: taloushallinto) software according to how much you actually use it.

Included in the software is also all the necessary Finnish bank connections. A separate payment software is not necessary, all that is required is a statement to your bank informing the connection of a specific bank account to ProCountor. Payment actions support both domestic and foreign payment traffic and both a digital statement and bookkeeping is provided based on received bank statements. SEPA is also taken care of in ProCountor and it is and can be integrated with digital billing services such as Itella and Xerox Global Service, with Finnish banks such as Nordea, OP-Pohjola and Sampo, and with payment services such as Eurocard, Planmill, and ValueFrame.

Trusted partner in accounting

With any software investment, you need to consider whether your company is looking just for a vendor or a trusted partner with a mutual, long term goal to see your company succeed. A vendor will sell you the software, implement it and the rest is up to you. That’s fine for many, but in the long run the more successful companies choose providers that want to see them succeed and offer additionally efficient tools and processes that help their clients gain a competitive advantage.

Such a financial administration software (in Finnish: taloushallinto ohjelma) developer is ProCountor’s software is the market’s most comprehensive accompanied with a wide-spread network of professionals and co-operating partners. Managing financial administration (in Finnish: taloushallinto) is a team game: ProCountor works in close co-operation with leading professionals, supports its clients and helps develop the relationship between its clients and their accountants.

The software can be used by both your company and your accounting agency (in Finnish: tilitoimisto) if you have one and it has been connected to a number of relevant Finnish authorities and banks. Additional to all the domestic bank connections that have been integrated to it, the software also contains connections to other external systems such as different authorities and postal systems. With ProCountor, it’s easy to manage all data transfers to and from the system. The software has adapters for several commonly used financial administration systems, and it’s a robust tool to use with your network of partners and customers.

Comprehensive accounting software

For many companies, financial administration (in Finnish: taloushallinto) is a support function, albeit a very central one. Every company has to do its accounting on some level. Many outsource it to an accounting agency (in Finnish: tilitoimisto), but there are still actions that need to be handled internally to a certain extent, e.g. salaries and expense costs. Regardless whether your company outsources or handles accounting internally, it’s always a good idea to invest in an effective, comprehensive financial administration software.

ProCountor is such a web-based software that is available for use anytime and any place. Using the software is easy and fast, and the licence fee automatically includes all version updates, back-ups and the safe-keeping of all of your data not to mention a very knowledgeable, complimentary help desk service. Adding new users is quick and free so the software can be taken into use for the entire company.

ProCountor offers a wide variety of all the tools needed for a company’s efficient financial administration, among others billing, ledger management and bookkeeping. Sending invoices is done directly through postal services, online billing or email. Because of the event based charging, you pay for the accounting software (in Finnish: kirjanpito ohjelma) according to how much you actually use it.

ProCountor also makes the handling of online purchase payment easy. Purchase invoices can be stored manually or received automatically through online billing services or scanning services. The digital archive and efficient purchase ledger make the handling of all purchases a breeze. The software also includes support for checking, approving and paying invoices.