Acclivity, which specializes in small business accounting software, has launched AccountEdge 2014, a new version of its small business accounting software for Mac OS X and Windows. According to Scott Davisson, Acclivity co-founder, new features include:

° Departmental accounting — you can set up and track departments, then allocate transaction line items to one department or multiple departments.

° Product variations — you can create variations for an items and then create properties for each variation like sizes, colors, sizes etc., giving you the ability to track and sell your items with much greater detail and precision.

° AccountEdge Cloud — enables employees and sub-contractors to complete a growing list of accounting tasks that sync back to AccountEdge desktop.  They can enter sales, invoices, orders and quotes and capture activity slips and time sheets from any web enabled device on any platform including Mac OS X, iOS, Android, or Windows.

° Combine duplicate or similar items into one. Simply select an item and combine it with a second item, merging all of the item history, purchases, sales and values into one.

° Improved jobs reporting — filter your job reports to span fiscal years. Include financial information on job reports from the previous, current, or next fiscal year.

° AccountEdge mobile updates — there’s support for larger file syncs and refreshes data faster than ever before.

° Rerun integration — Rerun gives customers or clients an online payment method for recurring subscription or membership billing and can be integrated into the best desktop accounting apps on the market, including AccountEdge.

AccountEdge Pro is available from the AccountEdge website (http://www.accountedge.com) and from Apple Specialists throughout the U.S. It has a list retail price of US$299.