Abacus: the standard for structures that have outgrown the small SME.
Complete functional coverage, consolidation, separate modules and fine-grained setup. It is the tool of companies with an in-house accounting team — and of the firms that work alongside it.
Often supporting an in-house team rather than replacing it.
Your team enters, we review and we close. That is the most common split on Abacus, and the most efficient one economically.
Returns, checking of the codes, agreement between the turnover in the accounts and the turnover declared. That agreement is the first thing a VAT audit looks at.
The payroll module is Swissdec certified. We work on the setup, the special cases and withholding tax rather than on day-to-day entry.
With several entities, the scope, the eliminations and the translation differences call for a written method. We set it once, and it serves every year.
Abacus does what it was told to do. Everything happens in the setup.
- The account definitions and the structure of the chart, often inherited and never reviewed.
- The VAT codes and the annual agreement with the declared turnover.
- The interfaces with other software, and what they write with no human check.
- The consolidation scope and the elimination entries.
- The user rights, when the same person enters and approves.
On Abacus, our value is not the data entry. It is the outside eye.
A structure equipped with Abacus already has competent people in-house. What it does not have is someone who took no part in writing the entry and can therefore challenge it. That is what we bring: the review, the agreement, the year end, and the argument to put forward when the authority asks for one.
Do we need Abacus to work with you?
No, and the reverse is true too: we will not ask you to change. The choice of Abacus is justified by size and complexity, and once it is made, it is kept.
Do you work on site or remotely?
Remotely in most cases, through access to your installation. On site when it comes to reworking a setup in depth or training a team.
Can you take on the year end only?
Yes, and it is a frequent request on Abacus. We handle the review, the closing entries, the notes and the tax package, leaving day-to-day bookkeeping to your team.
And the consolidation of a group?
We take it on, provided the scope and the method are defined in writing first. A consolidation taken over without a documented method is redone blind every year.
We also work with the other tools used in French-speaking Switzerland.
- Frequently asked questions
- Do we need Abacus to work with you?
- Do you work on site or remotely?
- Can you take on the year end only?
- Compare Swiss accounting software
And if yours is not on this list, the question is not whether we know it, but whether your data comes out of it cleanly. Tell us which one it is.
An outside eye on your accounts.
Tell us what your team already does. The estimate covers only what is left.