4Q Products — FAQ's
What is the difference between the Core and Business 4th Quarter® products?
What does the multi-currency module do?
What is the optional SuperReport Pro reporting tool?
— What is the difference between the Core and Business 4th Quarter® products?
The Core product provides high-level support for Cash, GL, Chart of Accounts, Accounts Payable and Receivable, Payroll Links, and Database Administration. It provides templates for recurring transaction as well as general journal and cash transaction entry screens.
The Full product includes the same functionality as the Core product in the accounting areas. In addition it provides a business management system for the entry and tracking of customers, vendors, multilevel BOM inventory, sales and purchase orders, non-inventory sales and purchases, sales reps, sales tax
4Q's multi-currency module enables you to maintain all account balances in two currencies: your native currency and any other currency that you've entered into the system. 4Q uses a dual-currency system to record all foreign currency amounts in your own currency at current exchange rates.This enables you to:
- bill, pay, and collect funds in various other currencies
- report revenues and expenses transacted in a foreign currency in both that and your native currency.
The multi-currency module supports an unlimited number of foreign currencies, and an unlimited number of exchange rates for each currency. Each exchange rate is date and time stamped. The system will use the exchange rate in effect at the time of the entry.
SuperReport Pro is an extension that enables you to create completely custom reports using a combination of a graphical interface and a programming language. Reports can be created simply as by dragging fields into columns locations. Reports of any complexity can also be created with the embedded programming language, thus enabling you to satisfy logical conditions such as locating the clients generating the most revenue based on some criteria.
The reports that you create using SuperReports are stored in your 4Q datafile. This distinguishes SuperReports from other third party reporting tools, such as Crystal Reports. In this manner SuperReports are available to all users of the system. They are stored in, and accessed through the different area of the system just as 4Q's own reports are stored in different areas. This is to better control who can access the reports -- only those who can access the data that the reports draw upon -- and to make the reports easier to locate.
SuperReports do not modify the 4Q application, unlike reports that are created by customizing the 4Q application. This means that when you upgrade your 4Q application all your custom reports automatically move into the new version of 4Q without any effort on anyone's part.
SuperReports can be created and modified, with complete programming control, without having any access to the 4Q source code. With SuperReports Pro users of compiled 4Q system can create fully custom reports.
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