With enhancements to the employee self-service function as well as other core functions, this new version will save human resources professionals and employees' valuable time and effort.

ACCPAC HR Series keeps a company's staff up to date with a comprehensive framework for organizing, streamlining, and automating benefits and administration processes. Powerful and flexible, ACCPAC HR Series helps to accurately and efficiently manage human resources and employee benefits responsibilities with real-time data available through your company intranet.

New features of ACCPAC HR Series 6.5 include:

Open Enrollment Capability: Now, employees can enroll for their own benefits on their own time, right from their own computer. This feature, part of the Employee Self-Service module, will save HR administrators from getting bogged down in time-consuming paperwork.

Updated Employee Self-Service: Employees can now request time off through the ACCPAC HR Series Employee Self-Service module. Managers can view and approve the time-off requests online. If managers want to see all requests from their direct reports at once, a new "My Team" tab allows them to do so.

Expanded and Improved Reporting: HR administrators can now produce the following reports through the HR Series Report Wizard:

• New Beneficiary Report: Produces a list of an employee's beneficiaries and their percentages for life and retirement plans.
  
• The Remittance Report: Now supports consolidated billing.

New OSHA Forms: OSHA incident tracking and reporting is now capable of producing OSHA forms 300, 300A, and 301.

Updated COBRA Administration. The ACCPAC HR Series COBRA module has been updated to comply with the latest regulations, so that companies can quickly produce the proper notices and letters required by law. Additional improvements to the COBRA module now make it easier to mix Active and COBRA Active Coverage-a need that may arise when an employee is divorced from his or her spouse.

Expanded Employee Selection Criteria . The Report, Employee Correspondence, and Batch Enrollment Wizards now allow users to filter employees by Hire Date, Termination Date, Next Review Date, Benefit Plans, Pay Period, and Self-Service Status.

Improved Help System: Customers will now find more detailed information about the uses and capabilities of the tools available in ACCPAC HR Series.

More Powerful Importing: The Quickstart Import utility can now import employees' review histories, making it easier than ever to centralize all your employee data.

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