Accountancy Age - Best Practice supplement 2 December 2004 

"Ultra reliable with loyal user base. Overall rating 84%

Although VT Accounts is used by only 10% of practices surveyed, its overall performance ratings were impressive. And one of its most outstanding features was the lack of business-critical failures during the last two years - the only product to achieve this. In turn, its reliability was rated higher than any of the other products - 4.5 out of 5 compared to the average score of 4.2. Performance (4.2), ease of use (4) and initial service (4.1) all scored slightly above the average in comparison to its competitors. Its recommendation score was second only to Iris - 90% of users would recommend the VT Accounts product, and the combination of reliability and sturdy performance meant that 98% of users had no plans to change to other software."

Accountancy Age 1 November 2001 

"The ICAEW's IT Faculty has this week released its annual survey of IT usage…

The independent survey this year looked into how software performed in five major areas: accounts production, personal taxation, payroll, time and fees and corporate taxation. It targeted almost 800 institute software users, ranging from Big Five firms to sole practitioners, in a bid to produce a scientific overview of the market.

The report shows accountants in practice that are in the process of selecting software, as well as existing software users, which providers are performing well and which are not.

IRIS and VT Accounts were found to provide the best accounts production software. Although it is unfair to compare the two products, because, although both carry out similar functions, they target different markets. IRIS offerings are more expensive and aimed at firms of 15 staff or more with larger systems, while VT is highly rated among users of smaller systems."

Accountancy December 2001 page 66

"The survey covered six main applications areas: accounts production, …

Iris emerged as the most commonly used [accounts production] package, and most highly rated package overall, just beating VT Accounts.  However, the latter came out on top in terms of reliability and ease of use, and had the lowest reported rate of business critical failures (just 2%).  VT Accounts was the only accounts production package all of its users would be happy to recommend."