Relate Company Secretary from Relate Software was successfully launched in 2002 and has already attracted over 700 firms as customers.

Relate Company Secretary is designed to reduce the burden of compliance. With recent changes in legislation and stricter enforcement of existing regulations. Relate Company Secretary can help both accountants in practice and industry to provide this important function, with an easy to use compliance software package.

Relate Company Secretary will instantly produce resolutions, minutes and forms automatically for clients or business. The Compliance Diary will automatically list all events such as Annual Returns, Accounts and AGM's due. Using the Event Wizard, the software will generate all documentation surrounding an event such as the Appointment of an officer.

The package has an excellent alert screen, which will highlight all returns that are falling dues for your clients. It automatically roles on the dates when you complete a return and it also calculates late filing fees and penalties and will show the total dues for each return.

If you are unsure of a companies next annual return date you can simply click on a button with the software and it will automatically do an online search and retrieve the companies next annual return date from the CRO’s database and compare that with what you have in your own database.

Relate are constantly updating the product with latest compliance requirements and are always first with new updates.

Republic of Ireland Information
Relate Company Secretary will allow accountants to electronically lodge Annual Returns on behalf of their client without the need for the client's signature. The Return will be lodged immediately and a receipt notice will issue within minutes from the CRO. Relate filed the first ever electronic B1 to the CRO and 63% of all E-filed returns are lodged by firms using Relate.

As the CRO continues with its policy of “going online” Relate will keep its clients updated with any new development. With the arrival of Relate Accounts Production should the CRO begin to accept accounts in XBRL relate will be there with the relevant update to allow users to lodge accounts electronically.