The new accounting software, “SunPlus,” has been implemented at the Northern Asia-Pacific Division (NSD) of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in March 2005. The General Conference (GC) SunPlus team and a staff member from the East Central African Division visited the NSD to setup the new software and train the NSD accounting team between February 14 to March 18.
The old system, “Sun Accounting,” was based on DOS and had been used more than 15 years. Now the new software which is more sophisticated has been already implemented at the GC and some other Divisions. SunPlus operates in the Windows system creating three dimensional or multilateral accounting structures which is a totally different concept from the old system which only had two dimensions to work in. It can provide more detailed accounting information for financial managers. Also the SunPlus software can be switched into many languages including English, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and others.

Mr. Ray Wahlen, director of the SunPlus of the GC, said “The SunPlus is not just for accounting but strengthens financial management and analysis. The new program is very flexible. Treasurers, associate treasures, and auditors can entered into it on their desk to get easily analytic reports which include items which they are interested in. It also can be customized”.

During the software education, the Japan Union Conference accounting staff stayed at the NSD to begin implimenting the new software. The NSD treasury department will help the Unions and institutions in the Division territory to implement the new accounting system in the near future. “Although it takes time to introduce this system, I hope that all our church organizations including divisions and union conferences will use the innovative and standardized program which does an efficient and effective job of accounting and financial management,” said Mr. Wahlen.