Consco

{{Infobox company

| name = Consco Enterprises Inc.

| type = Public

| traded_as = {{NASDAQ was|CNSO}}

| products = Software

}}{{Short description|US software development firm}}

Consco Enterprises Inc. was a software development firm headquartered in Edison, New Jersey, United States, in the early to late 1980s.

Products

Consco's primary product dubbed Consolidation, was based on pegboard accounting principles and designed to generate complex quarterly and annual tax reports for large multi-national corporations. Pegboard systems were and are still sold nationwide by "Control o fax" in Waterloo, Iowa.

The main Consolidation product was later packaged with other Consco financial applications, such as Currency Conversion, which added functionality. The package was named Accounting Information System, or AIS.

Clients

Some AIS clients included the Ford Motor Company,{{cite journal |date=14 June 1982 |title=Major Car Maker Opts for Flexibility of General Ledger System as Standard Equipment|journal=Computerworld|volume=16|issue=24|page=108|issn=0010-4841|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ucRgVedP1QYC&dq=Consco+Enterprises&pg=RA1-PA108|accessdate=24 March 2013}} Campbell Soup Company,The Philadelphia Inquirer Financial Section Apr 26, 1984 Miles Laboratories,PR Newswire July 18, 1984 LTV Corporation,PR Newswire July 16, 1984 Owens-Illinois,PR Newswire May 31, 1984 Texaco,PR Newswire November 14, 1984 Pennzoil,PR Newswire May 13, 1986 The Tennessee Valley Authority and Cummins Engine Company.

Consco's shares were traded on NASDAQ under the symbol CNSO. An unrelated company, CNS Response, now uses that symbol. In 1988, the company sold its product line to Computer Associates.{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-6375772.html |title= Consco sells product line to Computer Associates. (Consco Enterprises Inc., Computer Associates International Inc.) |date= May 26, 1988 |work=press release |accessdate=27 December 2009}}{{dead link|date=February 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} In May 1984, Seymour Altucher was the company's chairman.

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