Cegid is a provider of enterprise software and cloud services and a major player in the digital transformation of companies. We specialize in providing solutions for the Accounting Profession, and offer suites including Cegid Expert and QuadraExpert. This year, we are an official partner of the 70th CPA industry body convention. Cegid products are developed according to our MoBiCloTM innovation policy (Mobility, Business Intelligence and the Cloud), and Cegid will present these solutions at the 70th CPA industry body convention, which, more than ever, will strongly focus on the digital transformation of accounting firms.

Digital technologies are transforming the workplace, companies have new expectations, the accounting profession is undergoing fundamental changes and cloud services are increasingly being adopted. In this context, accounting firms need to automate their processes in order to focus on more high value-added work such as consulting services for companies and entrepreneurs. The innovations we will present at the trade show will illustrate Cegid's capacity to support accounting professionals as their roles undergo profound change and they enter into the era of digital automation.

New functions: Accounting firms go digital with Cegid

During the convention, our booth will showcase our many innovations entirely dedicated to the accounting industry.

EMPLOYEE HR: Cegid's new, comprehensive payroll management system. At the 70th convention, Cegid will present its vision of payroll runs as automated, interacting, interoperable and decision-making processes. Convention attendees will discover technical, collaborative and functional innovations, giving them an integrated employee management tool that covers everything from employment contracts to payslip printing.

  • Human Forces: the collaborative human resources management tool enhances the Cegid services package that accounting firms can offer to their customers. Human Forces is a new, fully web-based service which extends the collaborative work possibilities to employees of the corporate customers of accounting firms, who also become active participants in the payroll process. Human Forces makes data acquisition quicker and easier, and automates exchanges between an SME and its accounting firm.
  • HR business intelligence: the new Business Intelligence tool designed to assist CPAs in performing their HR assignments comes with more than 80 indicators in tabular or graphical form. The tool, integrated into the payroll solution, enables CPAs to analyze and communicate HR-related information, thus adding value to the HR services they offer.
  • Labor law: the new labor law module offers more automation and heightened security for all employee-related legal obligations, including employment contracts, letters, procedures and sanctions. This module, integrated into Cegid's payroll solution, will enable CPAs to secure and automate the labor law services they offer to their corporate customers.
  • Nominative employee filing (DSN) and collective bargaining agreements: this service enables CPAs to benefit from quasi-automatic updates to payroll plans in over 35 business sectors. The updates include fully configured settings for pay and deductions, legislative and regulatory change tracking, and changes to collective bargaining agreements. Cegid's collective bargaining service also enables accounting firms to have a payroll system whose settings are pre-configured to take into account the new nominative employee filing standard for every category of pay and deductions required by law and the industry's collective bargaining agreement as well as the single, unified social welfare contributions filing ("DUCS").

Cegid Box: a new service integrated into the CPA's collaborative portal, enabling CPA firms to offer an invoice digitization solution. With a powerful Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tool that automatically inputs data from written documents, this service enables users to share documents in a secure, collaborative workspace. CPAs offering Cegid Box to their customers will ensure a seamless data collection process and will be able to provide them with automatic deadlines, keep their cash accounting up-to-date along with the key indicators for managing their cash position on their smartphones or tablets.

Expert Intelligence: the new Business Intelligence solution integrated into Cegid software is a tool for managing the CPA's activity and identifying new assignments, automatically driven by the accounting firm's database and all its customers' business data. It offers detailed, instant and comparative analyses at different levels (customers, assignments, employees, generation of accounting entries, invoicing and profitability) and graphical, ready-to-use indicators that give a comprehensive 360° view of the accounting firm.

Consulting services: At this 70th convention, Cegid will also unveil the new features of its fully web-based range dedicated to consulting assignments.

  • Management of profit sharing and collective performance bonuses: these two brand new modules enable CPAs to help their customers redefine their compensation policy so as to take advantage of the opportunities offered under the human resources section of the Macron law.
  • SUIVIclick V2: the dashboard generation application has been improved. Dashboards have a new look, new graphical themes and functionalities such as sectoral ratios, and there is also the option of creating personalized dashboards.
  • PREVexpert: the forecasting and business plan application now offers cost accounting, a functionality hitherto unavailable on the market.

Mobility: Cegid will also present new features of its mobility and cloud-to-cloud offerings:

  • the Cegid Expert On Demand mobile application enables CPAs to access their data on their smartphone,
  • the Cegid Expert Link application enables easier and contextualized access to information stored in Cegid solutions using the Office 365 e-mail service,
  • the Office 365 application for the Consulting solution range, with which users can directly personalize all their brochures and reports in Word in a dynamic, synchronized manner, and use Word to create report templates in the accounting firm's format.

Furthermore, many new accounting functionalities will be included in the innovation area, including Cegid Expert agricultural modules available in On Demand mode, financial consolidation solutions and Yourcegid Public Sector solutions that are likely to be of interest to CPAs as part of their assignments relating to the financial services and consulting assignments they provide to local authorities.

Supporting the digital transition of CPA firms and measuring progress

Cegid will host a "Solutions workshop" entitled "Smartphones, BI, paperless operations ... find out how digital technologies can enrich your life". An interactive journey illustrates a CEO's expectations and the practical solutions that a CPA can offer on all fronts, including financial consulting, using technological innovations to boost the CPA firm's productivity and foster its growth. The solutions workshop will be held on Thursday October 1 from 11:00 AM to 12 noon and from 4:00-5:00 pm.

At the 70th CPA industry body convention, Cegid and La Profession Comptable magazine jointly announce the publication of the "Survey on the Digital transformation of CPAs. As an extension of the "Cloud survey" measuring the maturity level and rate of adoption of the cloud among French CPAs, the "Survey on the Digital transformation of CPAs" will this time focus on the practices and technological choices made by accounting firms in response to the latest challenges of their industry, in particular in relation to digitization, business intelligence, collaborative tools, consulting and customer relations.

*1st edition of the "Survey on the Digital Transformation of CPAs". Cegid and La Profession Comptable magazine surveyed 425 people from June 15-24, 2015.

About Cegid - www.cegid.fr

Cegid is a leading player in the digital transformation of companies, providing cloud services and enterprise software to private companies and public entities alike.

Cegid addresses the management needs of companies and public entities of all sizes in the fields of finance, taxation and human resources, and offers industry-specific solutions to companies in the manufacturing, trade, services and retail sectors as well as to the accounting profession. Based on MoBiCloTM, its technological concept combining Mobility, Business Intelligence and the Cloud, Cegid's innovation strategy integrates the new ways in which people use software.

Cegid is an international group with more than 2,000 employees, 27 locations in France, and 15 subsidiaries and offices worldwide. Cegid serves more than 120,000 clients and 400,000 users, including over 120,000 in SaaS mode. In 2014, its revenues totaled €267 million. Cegid is listed on Euronext Paris.

Details of Cegid product lines can be found on our site: www.cegid.fr (in French)
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