CYMA (software)

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CYMA is the name of a series of accounting software packages. [1] [2]

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History

CYMA Systems' earliest software, introduced in 1980, [3] [4] was DOS-based; [5] as of 2021 most packages require either "Windows 7 or higher,", [6] Unix or Linux. Current offerings are for general accounting (payroll, accounts payable accounts receivable, General Ledger, Inventory Control), [7] or more focused packages which specialize by industry, such as Medical Practice Management or Construction Job Cost Accounting. [8] Their CYMA HR package debuted in 2009. [9] They've also repackaged some programs for non-profits. [10] [11]

The company is based in Tempe, Arizona, [12] and via various software modules "provides third-party integrations, such as: time-tracking software, backup services, direct deposit services" and "can also import common financial file types, print checks, manage electronic payments, and prepare bank deposits." [13]

Controversy

The private company's president was charged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as having "ordered a subordinate to lie to auditors about whether CYMA had actually placed a large order" with another company "said to have falsified its books from 1993 to 1997." [14]

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References

  1. ↑ "Getting Paid Is Only the Start". Accounting Today . May 27, 2016. Integrated accounting systems such as those from CYMA Systems
  2. ↑ "TaxWorks Now Includes CYMA's RedGear Accounting Software". Accounting Today . August 11, 2010. provides CYMA with an outstanding opportunity to ...
  3. ↑ "CYMA Systems, Inc". CPA Practice Advisor . September 5, 2014. since 1980
  4. ↑ "CYMA Accounting Software Celebrates 30th Anniversary". January 8, 2010.
  5. ↑ "CYMA bridge". InfoWorld . April 21, 1986. p. 10. Cyma/McGraw-Hill will bundle Paperback Software's VP-Planner spreadsheet with its new $295 Cyma Bridge, which converts data from Cyma's accounting software
  6. ↑ "CYMA Financial Management System". Accounting Software World. Retrieved March 14, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Top 100 Products". Accounting Today . December 15, 2008. Cyma IV Financial Management System
  8. ↑ "CYMA Job Cost Accounting". October 18, 2011.
  9. ↑ "Crunching people: CYMA HR". Accounting Today . December 14, 2009.
  10. ↑ Ronald A. Landskroner (2002). The Nonprofit Manager's Resource Directory.
  11. ↑ "CYMA Not-For-Profit Accounting in 2021". Predictive Analytics Today.
  12. ↑ "CYMA Systems".
  13. ↑ "CYMA Review". Finances Online. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
  14. ↑ Floyd Norris (September 29, 1999). "S.E.C. Charges 68 Companies and Individuals With Accounting Fraud". The New York Times .


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