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| 17th March 2010 – DRIVEing Baker Tilly |
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| Relate Software are delighted to announce that Baker Tilly in Hong Kong have entered into a contract to implement DRIVE. The deal was struck appropriately on St. Patricks Day and will involve a 200 user implementation over the coming months. |
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| 12th March 2010 – CPA Tax Conference Dublin |
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| Relate Software were delighted to sponsor a prize of a Digital Notepad. The winner of the prize was won by Tax Senior of McInerney Saunders. |
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| 26th February 2010 – Relate 1st to Release 2009 Personal Tax Update |
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| Relate Software are delighted to announce the release of the 2009 Tax update to our users ahead of time so that users could create returns and start work on organising their database. Relate received the Revenue Schema in early January and got out update out in record time. |
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| 13th January 2010 - CAI Annual Technology Seminar 2010 |
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| Relate Software were delighted to host the CAI Annual Technology Seminar for the 6th year running. The three days were attended by over 500 accountants at the new Chartered headquarters on Pearse Street. The seminar is becoming one of the largest attended CAI events on the calendar. |
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| 5th November 2009 – Relate Sign DRIVE Distribution Agreement for Malaysia |
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| Relate Software are delighted to announce they have entered into a distribution agreement with P2P Solutions. |
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| 13th October 2009 -Best Practice Management Software 2009 |
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Relate Software and its flagship product DRIVE have won the prestigious award for “Best Practice Management Software” at The Software Satisfaction Awards 2009 held at the Royal Courts of Justice in London last night.
This highly coveted industry award based on views of customers rather than a judging panel had 8,151 votes for 100 products from 72 software suppliers. The award highlights the success of Relate in the accountancy market and it is the second year running that Relate has won the award.
“We were overwhelmed by the level of support from our customers and would like to thank them once again for their votes. We are delighted to have won the award in our category. The award highlights the fact that our customers believe that DRIVE is the best combined CRM, Practice Management and Document Management solution available on the market today”. |
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| 23rd August 2009 - Relate Software Offers KeepITsafe online backup to customers |
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Dublin-based online backup provider KeepITsafe has struck a partnership agreement with Relate Software that could see the Dublin firm significantly increase its client base.
Under the terms of the partnership arrangement, accountancy software providers Relate Software will offer KeepITsafe’s online backup service to its 5,000 or so accounting customers.
Darragh Canavan, KeepITsafe’s business development manager, said the deal represented ‘‘huge potential’’ for KeepITsafe, with sales figures already looking positive since the accountancy software firm began selling the data backup service last month.
KeepITsafe has used a partnership model extensively to grow its sales, and currently has a network of 130 partners across Ireland and Britain. The firm has about 60 customers in Britain through a partnership agreement with a local firm.
A further 10 per cent or so of the firm’s clients are based in the North, after it signed a similar partnership deal with Antrim company Outsource Solutions last year.
Canavan said KeepITsafe had more than 1,400 clients in total now and hoped to break the 2,000 mark by the end of this year. Clients include the Health Service Executive and Eircom. The company recently added a number of large corporate clients, including Domino’s Pizza.
Last year, the firm signed a three-year deal with Ireland’s largest recruitment firm, CPL, and earlier this year the company completed the pilot phase of a major contract to supply its backup system to over 200 credit union branches around the country.
The company plans to expand its presence in the British market in the coming months, with Canavan saying that Britain was the one of the company’s main priorities for 2010.
He said the firm planned to grow its customer base in Britain through direct sales and intended to hire a person early next year to oversee the British arm of the business.
KeepITsafe was set up in 2003 by its current managing director Eoin Blacklock and his college friend Jonathan Crowe. Both were studying computer science at Trinity College Dublin at the time. In 2005, after their graduation, the duo officially registered the firm. KeepITsafe is entirely self-funded to date and Blacklock and Crowe retain ownership. In 2007, the company generated revenues of €600,000.Last year, turnover rose to €800,000.
Canavan said the company was on target to reach turnover of €1 million this year.
The firm employs seven staff, and has backed up more than five billion files and restored more than 40 million lost files since its establishment. |
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| 16th July 2009 - DRIVE Shortlisted - Software Satisfaction Award 2009 |
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DRIVE has been shortlisted in the Practice Management Software category in this year's Software Satisfaction Awards. - This survey is one of the largest individual pieces of business opinion research in the UK, not to mention a fantastic level of response from the software user community. The winners will be announced at the Awards Dinner on Thursday 8 October, taking place at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. |
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| 30th June 2009 - Relate Personal Tax Uptake |
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| Relate has been very busy doing over 100 presentations of Relate Personal Tax Manager to a selection of our existing clients. Our sales representatives have been booked out solidly to the point where we had to stop taking bookings. The package has been extremely well received with many firms now moved onto the system and off the ROS offline or competitive applications. |
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| 17th June 2009 - Fergus Fitzpatrick & Company Implement Tax Solution |
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We are delighted to announce that Fergus Fitzpatrick & Company have rolled out Relate Personal Tax software. "We are currently moving all of our 2007 .f11 files from our ROS directory into the central Relate tax database, we have already calculated and submitted 2008 returns through the new Relate package" says Fran Fitzpatrick - Fergus Fitzpatrick & Company
Other firms to recently implement Relate Personal Tax were Byrne McCall, Gray & Murray, O'Gorman & Company, Spain McQuillan, McCrystal Accountants. |
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| 30th May 2009 - UK Companies Act 2006 Update |
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| Relate Software was the first to update its Accounts Production product with the changes required in the UK on the implementation of the relevant sections of the Companies Act 2006 and the consequential revision of the auditing standard ISA (UK and Ireland) 700.
The company template includes the major changes required by the UK Companies Act 2006 and its delegated legislation: |
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SI 2008 No. 489 The Companies (Disclosure of Auditor Remuneration and Liability Limitation Agreements |
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SI 2008 No. 410 The Large and Medium-sized Companies and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 |
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SI 2008 No. 409 The Small Companies and Groups (Accounts and Directors' Report) Regulations 2008) |
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| UK companies with year-starts on or after 6th April 2008 (effectively those with year-ends on or after 30th April 2009) are automatically switched to the new disclosure requirements and references. Companies registered in Northern Ireland adhere to the new Act from then as well. All GB and NI companies with year-starts before 6th April 2008 will automatically continue to abide by and refer to the old legislation
For GB/NI companies with year-starts on or after 6th April 2008 the following changes are apparent in the Compliance Database:
a) No Authorised Share Capital
b) Senior Statutory Auditor with Auditor’s Status set to Statutory Auditors
c) Disclosure of directors’ interests in shares of company (or group) is now optional
d) The Political and Charitable Contribution entries are now subject to the new limits.
The company template also includes the changes required by ISA ( UK and Ireland ) 700 (Revised) including: |
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APB Bulletin 2008-4 Special Auditors' Report on Abbreviated Accounts |
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APB Bulletin 2009-2 Auditor's Reports on Financial Statements in the United Kingdom |
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The change to the new auditor’s reports is effective in the template for all periods ending on or after 5th April 2009. |
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The existing reports apply to all prior periods.
The Compliance Database for relevant companies now incorporates the following changes:
a) Senior Statutory Auditor (per UK Companies Act 2006 and the above APB Bulletins)
b) A reference to APB's Web-Site in the Auditor's Report for the Description of the Scope of an Audit or the appropriate text for the scope of the audit as prescribed is shown in the auditor’s report. Firms must decide which option they require either at firm-wide level or specific to each set of accounts.
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Material Inconsistency between the Financial Statements and the Directors’ Report |
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| 23rd April 2009 - Relate Personal Tax |
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| Relate Personal Tax Manager was launched at the Irish Taxation Institute Annual Conference. Relate Personal Tax Manager is the first and only package to use ROS web services to calculate and submit Form 11 returns. If you would like further information or a personal demonstration pleas email info@relate-software.com |
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| 13th January 2009 - ICAI Annual IT Seminar |
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| The 5th Year of the ICAI Annual IT Seminar was a great success with high attendance at Belfast, Dublin and Cork. Below are some photos of the event in Dublin's Westin Hotel. |
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| 5th January 2009 - Nadine Bentaher appointed Office Manager |
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Nadine first joined Relate as our Company Administrator and was appointed Office Manager this month.
She will be dealing with all accounts queries and other general office duties. |
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"I am looking forward to taking on the challenge of Office Manager and dealing with clients more on a day to day basis in the accounts department" -
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