COA Solutions Awards & Accreditations

COA Solutions continually strives for excellence in product and service delivery with a strong focus on customer satisfaction. Our above average industry allocation on research and development ensures that we can drive our products forward in line with sector and technology requirements and demands.

We include below an outline of third party endorsements and accreditations which we hope will give you confidence in our product delivery. For example, when the new CIS scheme came along early in 2007, we ensured that we had software that operated across all our financial management modules well ahead of the deadline. We also ensured that the software was externally accredited by HMRC in time for online filing.

	Accountancy Age Award 2009 Winner COA Solutions has been awarded the title of Enterprise Software Package of the Year at the Accountancy Age Awards 2009 for its financial management system. more
	Green Hero Award Winner 2009 COA Solutions, has been honoured with a leading environmental award from The Green Organisation – A Green Hero Award presented by Professor David Bellamy. more
	Green Apple Award Winner 2008 COA Solutions, has been presented with a gold award at this year’s National Green Apple Environment Awards to honour the environmental benefits of its eBIS workflow system more
	Accountancy Age Award 2008 Finalist COA Solutions has been shortlisted in the enterprise software package of the year category. There are 4 finalists in this catagory and the winner will be announced at an award ceremony on the 12th November 2008 at Battersea Park Arena in London more
	Real FD/CBI Excellence Awards 2008 OpenAccounts has been shortlisted in the Financial Software category of the 2008 Real FD/CBI Excellence Awards. This award is voted for annually by hundreds of finance directors.
	Accountancy Age Awards for Software Excellence COA Solutions OpenAccounts has been short-listed for this award in the Enterprise Software category every year for the last eight years! OpenAccounts won this category in 2000, 2003, 2004 and 2006.
	Business Software Satisfaction Awards - Sift Media COA Solutions won the 'paperless office' category of the Business Software Satisfaction Awards 2007 through its subsidiary Version One.

Accreditations

	Payroll Standard - OpenPeople 8.5 has been checked and meets the requirements of the published HM Revenue & Customs Pensioner Payroll Standard and the relevant sections of HM Revenue & Customs Quality Standard. It incorporates online filing capability by internet.
	OpenPeople 8.5 has been checked and meets the requirements of the published HM Revenue & Customs Payroll Standard and the relevant sections of HM Revenue & Customs Quality Standard. It incorporates online filing capability by internet. Extra Pay Frequencies are supported. Directors National Insurance is supported. Contracted-out and Net Pension Deductions are supported.
	HMRC CIS Electronic Gateway - Granted by HMRC for the successful testing of COA Solutions' CIS Electronic Gateway through Vendor Single Integrated Proving Service (VSIPS).
	ISO9001 - COA Solutions is registered to the international quality standard, ISO9001:2000. In order to retain this registration, we need to be audited by independent auditors every 6 months. Our auditors are Bureau Veritas. We passed our most recent audit inspection in January 2008 with no non-conformances.
	ICAEW Accredited Products Scheme - This scheme currently covers both OpenAccounts Version 6 (updated in 2007) and eFinancials Version 3.2.
	COA Solutions North America is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit.

Memberships

	BASDA - COA Solutions is a signatory to the BASDA Code of Practice. We have been active supporters of BASDA since its inception and currently sit on the General Council. Relevant modules of COA Solutions Smart Business Suite have been accredited for the eBIS-XML standard.
	BASDA Green Charter Member - COA Solutions is signed up to the BASDA Green Charter which sets out the following: We will take pro-active steps to increase the carbon efficiency of our own organisations such that we will be regarded as low-carbon entities We will enhance our software solutions to enable customers to become part of a carbon efficient economy We will engage in the debate around green ICT – including measurement, reporting, data requirements and standards We will work as an industry through BASDA to educate and increase awareness of green issues as they relate to ICT and particularly business software
	UCISA - COA Solutions is a corporate member of UCISA, the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association
	CFDG - COA Solutions is a corporate subscriber to CFDG, the Charity Finance Directors Group
	HFMA - As part of our commitment to the health market, we are corporate partners with HFMA, the professional finance voice of the NHS (Healthcare Financial Management Association)