US 20040143522A1
(19) United States
(12) Patent Application Publication (io) Pub. No.: US 2004/0143522 Al
Wall et al. (43) Pub. Date: Jul. 22,2004
(54) SYSTEM, COMPUTER PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR WEB-ENABLED ACCOUNTING
(76) Inventors: George Henry Wall, Toronto (CA);
Andrew Marshall Wall, Toronto (CA);
Jerome Samuel Henshall, Collingwood
(CA); David Franklin Bolivar, Toronto
(CA)
Correspondence Address:
MILLER THOMPSON, LLP
20 QUEEN STREET WEST, SUITE 2500
TORONTO, ON M5H 3S1 (CA)
(21) Appl. No.: 10/345,246
(22) Filed: Jan. 16, 2003
Publication Classification (51) Int. CI.7 G06F 17 60
A system, computer product and method for providing a set of documents reconciled in accordance with business rules via the Internet is provided. The system, computer product and method of the present invention enables web-based bookkeeping in particular. A client provides a plurality of business documents to the operator of a web server. The business documents are provided electronically or in the form of scanned images the documents or via data entry interfaces. The web server includes a series of tools that enable the business documents to be converted into reconciled books such that access to supporting documents is readily available in accordance with a series of business rules.