BTAccounting from Cardamel Consulting and BuildTopia combines BuildTopia’s on-demand sales, service and production management tools with Microsoft Business Solutions-Solomon® to facilitate complete business process management from sales contract to purchase orders, closing and beyond.

BTAccounting will support several ‘degrees’ of integration, ranging from simply transferring approved purchase order data from BuildTopia for check runs, to serving as a comprehensive workflow platform where your operations and accounting systems communicate and react with each other in real time. Cardamel Consulting will help you decide on the best approach for your organization.

The first phase of BTAccounting is now available and uses the LinkTopia data exchange interface and pre-configured export and import routines. This will help you:

• Import approved purchase orders as payment vouchers to the Accounts Payable system so you can reduce manual entry and tighten cost control
• Know the lot number and cost code for every approved purchase order brought into the accounting system so you can reconcile job cost and track profitability by lot, model and option
• Track your vendors’ Workman’s Compensation and General Liability Insurance expiration dates so you can keep non-compliant vendors off your jobs

Future phases of BTAccounting will merge your operating and financial systems in real time. This will help you:

• Adopt best practices for internal controls and procedures
• Control the payables process, including:
  - Lien Waivers
  - Joint checks
  - Retention and partial payments
  - Centralized cash management
• Track and analyze budget variances by lot, model and option
• View all budget revisions from the original budget to current estimate at complete
• Simplify vendor management
• Manage loan draws (per invoice or percent complete)
• Forecast cash flow based on customer deposits and your construction schedule
• Automate inter-company transactions and maintain multi-company independence for easy reconciliation and 1099 creation.
• BTAccounting will include thorough documentation of daily entry and processing and period-end procedures. Cardamel Consulting with assist you with:

  - Optimizing your business processes
  - Converting data from other systems
  - Making critical decisions during implementation
  - Keeping your implementation project on track and budget.