Benefits
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Invoice amounts appear in receivables in one of two ways:
- As funds collected as a pre-payment or at the point of sale
- As a result of a sales order (in such case traditional receivable process are then applied to the outstanding balances
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Invoices created withing the system are categorized as one of the following:
- An inventory purchase
- A miscellaneous purchase Journals may be memorized within the system and reused
- Each type of report allows comparisons to a previous period, previouse year (same period), year-to-date, and previous year (same year-to-date)
- Sales tax reports and inquiries may be generated on all taxable, non-taxable, exempt or trade-in items for all dates locations
Key Features
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Accounts Receivable
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New Payments
- Payments that are made on open invoices are entered into the accounts receivable area of the tool
- Payment methods and check numbers are recorded, as well as the collected amount, discount amounts (if taken), and balance due
- The ability to sort line items by due dates and past due dates is also possible
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Aging Inquiries and Reports
- The aging inquiry functionality of the tool enables users to calculate appropriate past due amounts from set invoices dates and due dates
- Aging amounts must fall into one of five user-defined and distinct aging periods
- Accounts receivable aging reports may also be generated by invoice date or due date to display, print or export this information
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Trial Balance Inquiry
- A transaction inquiry may be generated to view trial balances on individual sales orders and invoices.
- This information may be viewed by location for all open sales orders or invoices, or for sales orders and invoices created within a specified period of time
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Printing
- Closing check lists, bank deposits, daily sales journals, sales summaries, profit analysis reports and accounts receivable aging reports may be printed or exported to PDF or a word document.
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New Payments
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Accounts Payable
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Entering Invoices
- New invoices are easily created for both new and existing vendors
- Using sophisticated search algorithms, the tool populates new invoices with all existing vendor information.
- This information can be easily updated,and the changes are reflected through the rest of the system.
- Inventory purchases are reconciled with receivings and the expense distribution is created based on the general ledger account for inventory.
- Miscellaneous purchases are entered with the appropriate general ledger expense accounts to define the distribution for the invoice.
- If the vendor has a pre-defined general ledger account, then it becomes the default account for the invocie, reducing time manual data entry.
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Paying Invoices
- Payment of invoices within the system may be broken into batches or check runs
- Invoices may be manually marked to create a batch, or automatically selected according to pre-defined criteria such as by discount or by due date
- Vendor credits may be manually applied on a case-by-case basis, or automatically applied to any outstanding invoice
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Entering Invoices
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Bank Statement Reconciliation
- The bank reconciliation area of the tool automates the bank statement reconciliation process
- Deposits generated from the point of sale or the accounts receivable payment are separated into deposit groups such as cash and check, credit cards and finance transactions
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General Ledger
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Chart of Accounts
- The chart of accounts capabilities within the tool are broken into accounts and classes
- While accounts describe the transaction, class group the transaction based on the location or business entity, such as a store or warehouse location.
- Both accounts and classes support up to five levels of sub-structure
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Automatic Journal
The following journals are automatically generated and posted by the tool:
- Sales
- Purchase
- Cash Disbursement
- Bank Reconciliation.
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Bank Reconciliation
Journals reflect discrepancies between the bank statement and the bank statement reconciliation, as well as any applicable bank fees
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Manual Journal
Manual Journals may be made to the general ledger at any time A journal may be defined such that it will be automatically reversed at the start of the next accounting period
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Financial Reporting
General ledger reporting capabilities within the tool generate two primary types of reports:
- Profit/Loss Statements
- Balance Sheets
Other options within both reports allow comparison of individual account values based on:- percent of row
- percent of column
- percent of income
- percent of expense
- dollars change
- percent of change
- percent of year-to-date where appropriate
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Chart of Accounts
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Sales Tax Reporting
High-level and detailed information is displayed on each transaction