Road Ahead Month-End Procedures Planning & Budgeting Tips - - PDF document

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10/23/2018 Road Ahead Month-End Procedures Planning & Budgeting Tips & Tricks 1 10/23/2018 Focus on Basics Hosting Add-ons New Features Retired Versions 2019 Release Features Bank Reconciliation


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 Road Ahead  Month-End Procedures  Planning & Budgeting  Tips & Tricks

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 Focus on Basics  Hosting  Add-ons  New Features  Retired Versions  2019 Release Features  Bank Reconciliation  Voiding Checks  Receivables Aging “Cleanup”  Payables Aging “Cleanup”  Journal Entries  Balance Sheet Validation  Reports  Closing Date

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 Bank Reconciliation

  • General
  • Tips
  • Reports
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 Voiding Checks

  • Old checks

 Current period  After period close

  • Current check
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 Receivables Aging “Cleanup”

  • Journal entry

 With/without customer  Dates  Matching

  • Credit memo

 Dates  Matching

  • Customer prepayments
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 Payables Aging “Cleanup”

  • Journal entry

 With/without vendor  Dates  Matching

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 Journal Entries

  • Basic
  • Reversing
  • Recurring
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 Validate Balance Sheet Balances

  • Assets
  • Liabilities
  • Net assets/equity
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 Generating and Customizing Reports

  • Filters
  • Memorize
  • Summarize report
  • Process multiple reports
  • Export and/or email reports
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 Setting the Closing Date

  • How
  • Why
  • When

 Audit Trail

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 General  Editing  Reports  Forecasting  Company Snapshot  General

  • Accounts utilized

 Profit and loss  Balance sheet  Class tracking

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 General

  • Create in company menu

 Planning & budgeting  Set up budgets

 Choose the fiscal year and accounts  Create from scratch or using prior year actual data

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 Editing a Budget

  • Printing first
  • Amounts

 Reports Utilized

  • Standard
  • Customized reports
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 Forecasting

  • General

 Predictions and “what ifs”  Base off of prior year amounts or create from scratch  Class

  • Reports
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 Company Snapshot

  • Company
  • Payments
  • Customer
  • Customizing features
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 Benefits

  • Reduction of manual data entry
  • Simple Set-up
  • Makes bank reconciliations easier and faster

 Preferences  Account Numbers  User Setup and Restrictions  Find  Memorized Transactions  Class Tracking  Job Costing  Backups  Clean-up Utilities

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  • Preferences

 Accounting  Reports and graphs

  • Account Numbers
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 User Setup and Restrictions

  • Add a user
  • Restrict a user
  • Edit a user
  • Recommendations
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 Find Feature

  • General
  • Examples
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 Memorized Transactions

  • Examples
  • Edit
  • Group
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 Class Tracking

  • Uses
  • Setup
  • Reports
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 Job Costing

  • Uses
  • Setup
  • Reports
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 Backups

  • Regular -- qbb
  • Accountant’s copy – qbx, qba, qby
  • Portable – qbm
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 Clean Up Utilities

  • Archive
  • Rebuild
  • Condense
  • Create new company
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Christina M Binagi Vrakas CPAs + Advisors 445 S. Moorland Road, Suite 400 Brookfield, WI 53005 (262) 798-7652 cbinagi@vrakascpas.com www.vrakascpas.com

Further Questions? Please Contact Us!

Mary Ellen Michaelson Vrakas CPAs + Advisors 445 S. Moorland Road, Suite 400 Brookfield, WI 53005 (262) 798-7636 mmichaelson@vrakascpas.com www.vrakascpas.com