The product

Everything Murgese does

Twenty-three modules, all of them in the software today rather than on a roadmap. Between them they cover what a UK firm normally buys as five products: the bookkeeping, the accounts production, the corporation tax, the Self Assessment returns and the practice management. This page is the map; each module is described in full on the page it belongs to, and what the software does not do is set out just as plainly on the status page.

What it looks like

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The practice dashboard, with every client's work in one place.
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The same software running one company.
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The VAT return
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The CIS monthly return
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Profit and loss by site

Click any screen to see it full size. All demo data: the companies and the figures are invented. Walk through four of them

In detail

Five pages cover the accounting and the tax

The rest of the product has a page of its own, listed underneath. Every module below links to the place it is described in full, with the list of what it does and what it will not do.

Bookkeeping

The ledger underneath everything, the documents that come in and go out, the bank they settle through, and the records arriving from clients.

Double-entry ledger · Sales, purchases and payment runs · Bank import, rules and reconciliation · Records coming in from clients

VAT, CIS and tax

The two returns a UK contractor files most often, and the corporation tax computation built from the accounts rather than typed beside them.

VAT returns, the margin and retail schemes, and partial exemption · CIS deductions, CIS300 and statements · Corporation tax and the CT600

Year end and the record behind it

Statutory accounts from the same ledger you have worked in all year, leases and deferred tax under FRS 102 as amended, charity funds, and the registers and trail that support them.

Statutory accounts, FRS 105 and FRS 102 1A · Charity accounts and the SORP · Fixed assets, registers and the audit trail · Leases under FRS 102 as amended · Deferred tax and the Section 1A tax note

Self Assessment and MTD for income tax

The personal return and the partnership return built from the same books as the accounts, and the quarterly cycle for Making Tax Digital.

Self Assessment and the partnership return · Making Tax Digital for income tax

Projects, tracking and currency

Contracts run to a budget, a second label on a posting for the property or site it belongs to, and invoices, bills and bank accounts in another currency.

Multi-currency, with the ledger still in sterling · Projects: contracts to a budget, variations and retention · Tracking by property, site or department

All twenty-three

Every module, and where it is described

Five of these have a page of their own because they answer a question people arrive with rather than a question about bookkeeping: reporting, running a practice, moving your history, licensing, and where the software runs.

01 Double-entry ledger Double entry underneath everything else, built so that two screens cannot disagree. 02 Sales, purchases and payment runs The day to day paperwork, with the parts that usually need a workaround built in. 03 Bank import, rules and reconciliation Getting the bank right is most of bookkeeping, so this is where the effort went. 04 Multi-currency, with the ledger still in sterling Invoices, bills and bank accounts in another currency, converted once, so nothing after the journal has to know a currency was involved. 05 Projects: contracts to a budget, variations and retention Contracts and sites run to a price and a cost budget, with an overrun visible while it is happening rather than in the final account. 06 Tracking by property, site or department A second label on a posting beside the account, carried into a profit and loss with a column for each one. 07 VAT returns, the margin and retail schemes, and partial exemption The nine boxes, with the awkward cases treated as ordinary rather than exceptional: flat rate, cash accounting, the reverse charges, partial exemption, and the margin and retail schemes. 08 CIS deductions, CIS300 and statements Written for a practice that does construction every month, not once a year. 09 Statutory accounts, FRS 105 and FRS 102 1A Statutory accounts from the same ledger you have worked in all year. 10 Charity accounts and the SORP Fund accounting done properly, because almost every firm has charity clients and most software treats them as an afterthought. 11 Corporation tax and the CT600 The computation built from the accounts, with the reliefs that a small company actually meets. 12 Self Assessment and the partnership return The personal tax return built from the same books, rather than bought separately and typed into twice. 13 Making Tax Digital for income tax The quarterly cycle, built and working, with nothing sent to HMRC until the credentials arrive. 14 Fixed assets, registers and the audit trail The records behind the figures, kept so that a year later somebody can still see what happened. 15 Reports, traced to the entry A library grouped the way an accountant looks for things, on one engine, so two reports of the same figure cannot disagree, and laid out your way without a layout ever being able to move a figure. 16 Records coming in from clients A client sends their papers to an address and they arrive in the right client's records, without anybody dragging an attachment out of Outlook. Both editions read a bill and take records by email; the practice keeps the client-by-client chasing on top. 17 Practice management, jobs and billing The job board, deadlines, records received, approvals, time, work in progress, billing, and thirteen reports on the firm itself. Practice edition. 18 Migration, and checking against a filed period The two features that exist because a preparer has to check the software before trusting it. 19 Licensing and the partner programme How a firm resells it, and what happens when somebody stops paying. 20 Where it runs, and where your data lives Windows, one machine or a small office network, and what a Mac or a tablet can reach. 21 Leases under FRS 102 as amended The leases a company holds as lessee, on its balance sheet, from one schedule per lease. 22 Deferred tax and the Section 1A tax note Deferred tax worked out from the computation you have posted, and the tax note small companies now need. 23 Anti-money laundering, in the Practice edition The firm's record under the Money Laundering Regulations 2017, beside the books it already keeps for each client: risk, due diligence, evidence, checks, the MLRO's log and an inspection pack.

And what it does not do

Not yet HMRC recognised, for Making Tax Digital for VAT or for the CT600. Companies House filing tested only against our own harness. It has never met the Companies House service, and the test account for it has not yet been applied for. Bank feeds built but never yet connected to a provider. No payroll calculation, and none planned. No audit functionality, and none planned (the audit trail is a different thing and it is there). No full annual cycle run alongside another package yet. The status page keeps that list current, and says what is being worked on.

See it on your own books

Request the installer and the manual. Thirty days from the day you create your books, with no licence key and no card.

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