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                                                               EXHIBIT 10(a)
                                    Form of

                               KOGER EQUITY, INC.

                             RESTRICTED STOCK AWARD

         This is a restricted stock award (the "Award") granted by action of
the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of Koger Equity, Inc. (the
"Company") to __________________ (the "Executive and/or Director") under the
Company's 1998 Equity and Cash Incentive Plan (the "Plan") on March 5, 1999, to
be effective May 1, 1999, and the grant was ratified by the Board of Directors
of the Company on May 20, 1999. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth
below and the additional terms and conditions set forth in the Plan, the
Executive and/or Director is granted _______ shares of Koger Equity, Inc.
common stock (the "Shares").

         Until a Share becomes vested, it will be nontransferable and
forfeitable. Vesting will be determined as follows:

         (1)      All the Shares will become vested as of December 31, 1999 (the
"Determination Date"), if for the year ending on the Determination Date, the
Company achieves a per common share increase in funds from operations of 10.6%
or greater.

         (2)      Fifty percent of the Shares will become vested as of the
Determination Date if, for the year ending on the Determination Date, the
Company achieves a per common share increase in funds from operation of at
least 8% but less than 10.6%.

         (3)      All the Shares will become vested immediately if a Change of
Control (as defined in Exhibit A hereof) occurs on or before the Determination
Date.

All Shares that do not become vested on or before the Determination Date will
be forfeited as of that Date, and the Executive and/or Director will have no
further rights to or interest in such Shares.

         Prior to the Determination Date the certificates representing the
Shares will be held by the Corporate Secretary during which time the Executive
and/or Director will be entitled to vote, and receive dividends and any other
distributions with respect to the Shares.

                                              Koger Equity, Inc.
                                              By: /s/ W. Lawrence Jenkins
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                                                  W. Lawrence Jenkins
                                                  Vice President Administration
                                                  and Corporate Secretary



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                                   EXHIBIT A

"Change of Control" means the occurrence of any of the following events:

                  (1)      any Person becomes the owner, directly or indirectly,
         of more than 25% of the Company's Common Stock; or

                  (2)      individuals who, on the Effective Date constitute the
         Board of Directors of the Company (the "Continuing Directors") cease
         for any reason to constitute at least 75% of such Board (a "Board
         Change"); provided, however, that an individual becoming a director
         after the Effective Date whose election or nomination for election by
         the Company's shareholders, was approved by a vote of at least 75% of
         the Continuing Directors will be treated for this purpose as a
         Continuing Director, but excluding from treatment as a Continuing
         Director any such individual whose initial assumption of office occurs
         as a result of (i) either an actual or threatened election contest (as
         such terms are used in Rule 14a-11 of Regulation 14A promulgated under
         the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act")) or other
         actual or threatened solicitation of proxies or consents by or on
         behalf of a Person other than the Board or (ii) any acquisition,
         merger, reorganization or consolidation or other transaction to which
         the Company is a party and which contemplates a Board Change; or

                  (3)      there is executed an agreement of acquisition, merger
         ,reorganization, consolidation or other transaction which contemplates
         either (i) that all or substantially all of the business and/or assets
         of the Company will be owned or controlled by a Person or Persons
         other than the Persons owning or controlling such business and assets
         on the Effective Date or (ii) that a Board Change will occur,
         provided, however, that if such agreement requires, as a condition
         precedent, approval by the Company's shareholders, a Change of Control
         will not be deemed to have occurred until such approval has been
         obtained.

For purposes of this definition the following terms have the meanings set forth
below:

         "Common Stock" means the then outstanding Common Stock of the Company
plus, for purposes of determining the stock ownership of any Person, the number
of unissued shares of Common Stock that such Person has the right to acquire
(whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of
time) upon the exercise of conversion rights, exchange rights, warrants or
options or otherwise; provided, however, that the term Common Stock will not
include shares of preferred stock or convertible debt or options or warrants to
acquire shares of Common Stock (including any shares of Common Stock issued or
issuable upon the conversion or exercise thereof) to the extent that the Board
of Directors of the Company expressly so determines in any future transaction.



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         A Person will be deemed to be the "owner" of any Common Stock of which
the Person would be the "beneficial owner," as such term is defined in Rule
13d-3 promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Exchange
Act.

         "Person" will have the meaning used in Section 13(d) of the Exchange
Act, except that "Person" will not include (i) the Executive, an Executive
Related Party, or any group of which the Executive or an Executive Related
Party is a member, (ii) the Company or a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company
or (iii) an employee benefit plan (or related trust) of the Company or of a
wholly owned subsidiary.

         An "Executive Related Party" will mean any affiliate or associate of
the Executive other than the Company or a subsidiary of the Company. The terms
"affiliate" and "associate" will have the meanings ascribed in Rule 12b-2 under
the Exchange Act. The term "registrant" in the definition of "associate" means,
in this case, the Company.



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