Reckon are proud to be working with The Institute of Chartered Accountants to deliver outstanding resources, software and training for Australian Accounting professionals.

How to take advantage of special offers for Chartered Accountants

As part of the Chartered Accountant’s Member Benefits Program, we are pleased to offer you the following:

• A copy of the QuickBooks Approved Training Guide when you join as a Quicken Professional Partner.
  
  To take advantage of this offer click here. For more information about Quicken Professional Partner Membership, click here.
  
  
• 10% off Reckon Backup Professional. To take advantage of this offer go to www.reckontools.com/onlinebackup and follow the prompts to establish your account. Enter the promotion code ICAA to sign up.
  
  
• 20% off all new Quicken Elite software (excludes annual renewals). To take advantage of this offer call 1300 306 561 and mention that you are a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
  
  
• 20% off all APS software (excludes annual renewals). To take advantage of this offer call Sam Allert on 02 9965 1300 and mention that you are a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
  
  

Reckon Backup Professional

With Reckon Backup Professional you can share information with clients, business partners, tax agents, and consultants in a secure online environment, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

With Reckon Backup Professional you can:

• Safely and securely provide your clients with data files, financial reports, summary documents and other vital business documentation that can be too large for e-mails.
• Request clients upload reports, data, and documents at anytime improving your operating efficiencies
• Establish work groups with access to selected uploaded documents, making it an excellent tool for firms with multiple practice locations and staff who work remotely

QuickBooks

QuickBooks QBⁱ series has arrived. This latest release of QuickBooks is much more than just an upgrade. It’s faster, easier, more powerful. It’s simply genius. 
 
The QuickBooks QBⁱ series product utilizes an SQL database which means it can work with bigger data files, larger businesses and do it all faster than before. It also includes a brand new product QuickBooks QBⁱ series Accountants Edition which has been designed to make it easy for you to work with your client data. Features include: 

• Always on audit trail 
• QuickSwitch - allowing you to open any QuickBooks QBⁱ series data file without installing additional software 
• Financial Statement Designer - create bespoke management reports for your clients from within QuickBooks so you can really add value 
• Working Trial Balance - make journal entries on the fly and record meaningful client notes 
• The improved Accountants Copy and Dividing Date - this ensures your client can’t add transactions to a period you are reviewing 

If you would like us to come to your firm and demonstrate some key QuickBooks features, click here.

Quicken Professional Partner Program for Accounting firms

We understand that you have many different clients using all sorts of software to keep track of their business finances. To make life easier for you when working with clients who use QuickBooks, we created the Quicken Professional Partner Program for Accountants.

As a Professional Partner, your firm receives all of the latest versions of QuickBooks, Retail Point of Sale and Payroll Premier as they are released ensuring you always have the right version to use with your client’s data file. And because you will always have clients who haven’t changed software in many years, we also give you access to old versions of the software on request. That’s over $3000 worth of software.

When you join you will receive a detailed Resource Kit that is full of product information and detailed technical tips to get you started. You also receive updated resources several times throughout the year. As a Professional Partner you are entitled to reseller pricing on software allowing you to onsell to your clients at a reasonable margin.

Professional Partner membership is great for small practices and for large firms. Membership is still more cost effective than keeping one copy of QuickBooks Pro up to date so it’s ideal even if you have only one client. And because your membership allows you to open as many client files within the software as you like, large firms pay only one low annual fee.

We know you may not use QuickBooks every day so your membership includes priority technical support by phone, email and web chat to help you out when you get stuck. Any member of your staff can use the technical support. You are also entitled to a discount on training through our Quicken Training Centres which can contribute to your Training and Development requirements with the Institute.

Become a member today for $499. Click here to join.

For more information on how you and Quicken can work together click here.

Reckon Elite

Reckon Elite is committed to delivering leading-edge technology together with a competitive level of customer support that maximises the profitability of accounting and tax firms. Unlike other major players in the software industry, Reckon Elite has made quality control their primary focus so as to continue delivering high profile e-tax software product year on year. Elite currently services over 2,000 tax and accounting firms plus H&R Block (250 offices nationwide), the largest preparers of individual tax returns in Australia.

Elite was formed in early 2000 by well respected industry veterans after they became disillusioned with main stream industry software suppliers. With over 80% of the tax and accounting industry comprising of small to medium sized tax practices & accounting firms, they identified that there was a serious lack of powerful, inexpensive software solutions servicing these firms.

In March 2006 Reckon Limited announced its acquisition of the Elite business putting them in a position to offer a complete product suite and service to the accounting and tax agent industry. Elite is now focused on aligning its product range with Quicken and QuickBooks products, in order to distribute tax return preparation tools to a substantially larger customer base.

The Reckon Elite product suite includes:

• Central (Client and Practice Management)
• Tax
• Ledger
• Assets
• TimeCost
• TimeSheets
• Rental
• AdvanceDocs

Please note, all products are available on a free 14 day trial from the Reckon Elite website.

• For more information on the Reckon Elite product suite click here.

Advanced Professional Solutions (APS)

As a people led service organisation, APS is a relationship and service based organisation that moulds the right choice of software around their client’s individual practice requirements.

APS’s main focus is to identify what each client wants to achieve in their business and work with a range of APS and third party software applications to help the achievement of those goals. We make promises, we ask for the trust of clients and, importantly, we deliver.

For more information on the APS product suite click here.

Shelco

Shelco was acquired by Reckon in March 2007 to help provide better access for accountants to a range of core services and information. Shelco are company registration specialists and have been providing accountants with assistance creating and lodging documents with ASIC for 30 years.

Go to www.shelco.com.au and www.databroker.com.au for direct access to a number of ASIC’s servers allowing companies to be registered 24 hours a day online and virtually instantly. Shelco can also provide constitution updates trusts, self managed super funds and access to a range of information products such as company searches.

For more information on Shelco products and services click here.

Book a Demonstration

Different Accounting firms have different needs. That’s why we offer a face to face consultation and product demonstration for any Chartered Accountant and their firm. If you’d like to know how to get the most out of QuickBooks, want a Practice Management solution that matches your business model or just aren’t sure what’s right for you, we are happy to send someone to visit you when it’s convenient for you.

To book a free demonstration, click here.