A Review of
MAS 500
By J. Carlton Collins, CPA

MAS 500’s Core Modules and Sub Modules:  

To help you understand how to evaluate an accounting software product's list of modules, please refer to these two documents:

Carlton's Guide to Accounting Software Modules
Carlton's Checklist of the 90 Most Popular Modules

  1. General Ledger

    a. Cash Management

    b. Allocations

  2. Accounts Payable

    a. Purchase Order

  3. Accounts Receivable

    a. Sales Order

  4. Inventory Management

    a. Inventory Replenishment

  5. HR Management

    a. Employee Attendance

    b. Recruiting

    c. Employee Self Service

    d. SalesLogix-Sales
    e. SalesLogix-Support

    f. SalesLogix-Partner

  6. Payroll Management

  7. Project Accounting

MAS 500’s Advanced Modules:

  1. Fixed Asset Accounting

  2. Multicurrency Management

  3. Fixed Asset Inventory

  4. Advanced Consolidations

  5. Advanced Kitting

  6. Sales Management

  7. Support Management

  8. Advanced Manufacturing

  9. Advanced Planning & Scheduling

  10. Engineering Change Management

  11. Estimating

  12. Light Manufacturing

  13. MRP

  14. Product Configurator

  15. Shop Floor Control

  16. Project Management for Manufacturers

  17. Alerts

  18. Enterprise Office

  19. Microsoft Project Link

MAS 500’s E-Commerce Modules:

  1. eOrder

  2. eSalesforce

  3. eCustomer

  4. eExecutive

  5. eTimeSheets

MAS 500’s Development Tool Modules:

  1. Customizer
    33. Application Framework
    34. Source Code
    35. Application Programming Interfaces

MAS 500's Missing Modules

MAS 500 has all of the core modules you would expect. It also contains several that you wouldn't expect like eTimeSheets and a link to Microsoft Project. There really are no significant modules missing from this product. 

However, sophisticated users would be forced to rely on third party applications to fill the following needs:

EDI
Warehouse Management
Retainage, AIA Billing

 

 

 

 

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