BNA Fixed Assets in and outs
October 30, 2023

BNA Fixed Assets in and outs

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Bloomberg Tax Advantage

We use Bloomberg Fixed Assets for GAAP, Fed and State Tax depreciation.
Within their software there are countless options to describe an asset, organize, and manage users with a complete audit trail by asset.
Their reporting is top notch as you can export to PDF or excel using many report options but
even better, they have an Excel Add-On where you can create your own reports and then download the data as often as you need.
This allows different users to have different reports in different excel files for property tax, income tax, GAAP audits, etc. for the time period they desire by a simple download button.
We store all our documents with their software for easy retrieval by us and our auditors who we give access to our system on a limited basis.
They also offer ASC 842 software for leases which comes with the fixed asset software.
There are options to have multiple companies, or you can use one company with multiple divisions.
For reporting online, they allow 5 sections to customize your report by whatever field you choose (Asset Type, Location, Branch, Dep. GL, etc. The software as a whole is very user friendly but can be as complicated as you want.

  • Reporting
  • User friendly
  • Filter and Sorting
  • Better outlay of the depreciation section, rather see periods vertically, then horizontally. The periods are difficult to move through when you need to see many months in the past or vice-versa.
  • Would love to see an ability to mandate certain fields when creating an asset as every company is different.
  • Would love to see each field have the ability to have it's own pick list, and the pick list that does exist needs to be larger to allow for a longer list rather than just 8-10, then the rest are hidden so you have to move to section 2 to see that continuing list.
  • Allowed for very smooth audits
  • User friendly, allows for documentation to be stored, very useful
  • Good audit trail to see what happened.

Do you think Bloomberg Tax delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Bloomberg Tax's feature set?

Yes

Did Bloomberg Tax live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Bloomberg Tax go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Bloomberg Tax again?

Yes

The fixed asset software is very advanced for software in general,
but it is limited to accounting (GAAP and Tax) fixed assets.

Would love to see a more IT user friendly software allowing IT personnel to use a gun to scan the servers and computers, etc.
This wouldn't necessarily be a fixed asset as many computer items are too small dollar wise, but it would be a useful feature for IT and accounting to track IT assets by locatoin, user, departmetn, etc. and would be company wide.
Another software needed is for company contracts with an ability to send out emails for notifications that a given contract is coming due.
Obviously, this would be for contracts and leases but is also useful for accounting and would involve the whole company as there are contracts for rentals, equipment, service maintenance agreements, capital leases, IT contracts, etc.

Bloomberg Tax Feature Ratings

Sales and Use Taxes
8
Geolocation for Tax Assessment
8
Tax Data Reporting
10
Compliance Administration Management
8