BASDA approval for EMU Compliance Accreditation |
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The Business Application Software Developer's Association announced in February 2001 the appointment of Patrick O'Beirne of System Modelling as a BASDA approved tester of application software against the BASDA EMU standard.
The second level of the BASDA standard covers account and base currency conversion to the euro, and the ability to support IEP and Euro transactions before and after the changeover.
Source http://www.basda.org/ The BASDA EMU Accreditation page
BASDA have published a booklet entitled "The Euro and UK Business in 2002" to highlight the impact of the euro from 1/1/2002 on businesses trading with the euro-zone . This is freely available on the website http://www.basda.org/downloads/
BASDA Tel: 01494 677699 Fax: 01494 681894
PACKAGES TESTED
The following packages have now been certified for BASDA EMU Accreditation by Systems Modelling, the second approved tester for certifying application software against the BASDA EMU standards.
| Package Name | Accreditation Date | Company Name |
| SquareSum Dream v2.10 | 30th Jan 2001 | SquareSum plc |
| Exchequer Enterprise v4.3x | 30th Jan 2001 | Exchequer Software Ltd. |
| TAS Books Accounting Plus | April 2001 | TAS (now part of the Sage Group) |
| Sybiz Vision | Sept. 2001 | Sybiz |
| OpenAccounts | Nov. 2001 | OpenAccounts |
The SML test cases are designed to highlight errors and adjustments expected to arise in the transitional period for accounting software that is adapted for the euro. They cover the "price accordion" effects, detecting the use of inverse rates, rounding, truncation, accounting with master and detail records, and account and base conversion in the transition scenario. The specific test data for any given base currency uses sensitive data points that are most likely to give rise to differences in conversion and rounding.
We place particular stress on the communications from the vendor to the customer, whether it be in documentation, training, actual conversion factories, or helpline support. The better prepared the users are, the more accurately their expectations will match the results, and the least amount of time is wasted explaining non-material differences in a post-conversion audit.
There is only a short time frame left for company conversions, and we see an increasingly obvious trend for users to leave the conversion to the last minute. The more efficient and well-justified the conversion process is, the more smoothly their customers, suppliers, auditors, and employees will experience the changeover. This can only be of benefit to the success of the entire euro project in the eurozone.
Patrick O'Beirne
Managing Director
Systems Modelling Ltd.
Index to euro-related pages in this web site
Euro Index - the general
euro index page which briefly describes the following:
Euro Conversion FAQ - answers questions
on the technological challenges of euro transition
Articles on EMU, the euro, I.T.
and Information Systems
Euro software
links : symbol, converters, calculators
Javascript euro conversion calculator by Pim van Mun
Frequently Asked Questions on EMU, economics, and the euro and web rings
National Euro information links
largely historical but including UK
General Euro web
links non-country-specific web sites and the European Commission
Euro-Papers,
magazines, and other documents Glossary Euro-papers, Publications
Our course / seminar outline We provide consultancy on how to efficiently and
accurately convert business and information systems to the
euro. Also see Patrick O'Beirne's speaking engagements on the euro
BASDA Accreditation for euro conversion and
our Euro Certification Testing services
provided subject to the terms and conditions below.