Customer testimonials:
"Allergan is an American pharmaceutical company quoted on the stock exchange with subsidiaries in several European countries. The European financial centre is based in Germany. In 2002 we decided to start working with CaseWare. Our reports to the US have to take into account US-GAAP and also have to respect the various country-specific European requirements. It is very tricky to link all that. In Belgium the requirements are quite demanding. CaseWare and WinAcc passed this difficult test. It is very easy to switch from US-GAAP to Belgian standards for tax inspections.
We used to work with an expensive accountancy firm in every country, each creating its own journal entries. That resulted in different formats that always turned out to be incompatible during consolidation, so we had to re-enter everything. There was also no history. We did not know where the various accountancy firms got their figures. CaseWare makes things easy for you. It gives you everything in one complete file and you can see the entire flow from the very beginning right to the declaration with links to all forms.
All you need to do is load the figures into US-GAAP. These are then automatically converted according to Belgian standards and the annual accounts are also provided in the language you prefer. It does not matter which package you are working with. With WinAcc you can determine what you want and how you want it. You can fill in the declaration forms directly. They are included as standard. You can also perform tax calculations, create the annual report from a template, write invitations to the general meeting, etc. The system also offers huge advantages during personnel changes. Because it is so transparent, the handover can be done efficiently.
Actually, you don't have to be an 'expert' to work with WinAcc. WinAcc provides a help function and a number of checks. It has built-in flags that bring a number of issues to your attention. Updates are fast and can easily be downloaded via the Internet.
I am very satisfied with the support I received from PragmaTools during the implementation phase. Their involvement means huge added value.
The conversion to CaseWare WinAcc was the best thing that could have happened to Allergan. We now have a perfectly integrated, gigantic database. WinAcc simplified our internal and external reporting, saved us an awful lot of time and considerably reduced our GA (general administration expenses). Smaller organisations - subsidiaries of foreign companies - also have a lot to gain with WinAcc. I often see companies in other countries waste so much of their precious time..."
Jan Peters, Allergan Director Finance Central European Area and CaseWare ambassador
