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The Ledger Lowdown: Vendor Tax ID Woes
Hey blog readers! We are often asked why Accounts Payable users are not able to update a vendor tax ID, so I thought this would be a helpful topic to talk about today. Beginning in The Financial Edge version 7.70 we implemented personal information security...
Make it Feel Like Home: The FE Home Page
Do you run the same saved reports and queries daily, weekly, or monthly? Save yourself time by adding links to them on your Home page. This simple process will help streamline your regular tasks by accessing common FE reports and queries, websites, or...
Need to Record Handwritten Checks?
If you handwrite a check to a vendor, how do you record the payment and reflect the invoice as paid? Record a manual check. The manual check allows you to enter the payment and select the invoice(s) paid by the handwritten check. Before you can record...
The Ledger Lowdown: Invoice Errors....No Problem
What do you do if you realize an invoice has the incorrect amount or distribution? Don't worry; you can fix it even if it's posted. The way you correct the issue depends on whether the invoice is posted, unposted, paid, or unpaid. Here are the...
To Void or Purge...That is the Question
It's inevitable, no matter how careful you are, at some point you'll have to correct a check. The question is should you void or purge. What's the difference? Well, voiding cancels the check, leaving it available to view in the bank register...
The Ledger Lowdown: Commingling Revenues and Expenses
Do you need to show offsetting sales with sales returns on your Income Statement? Whatever the reason to net revenues and expenses, you can do this by adjusting your Visual Chart Organizer (VCO). Just to give you a heads up, the process to adjust the...
Improve Your Data's Quality and Consistency
A list of procedures and rules can improve your data's consistency and quality, and save you time and effort when entering data, preparing reports, and reconciling. I recommend compiling the procedures and rules to create a policies and procedures...
The Ledger Lowdown: Top Questions for May '09
Each month we keep track of the top questions you ask. This FAQs list includes GL, AP, AR, CR, FA, and general FE questions. To see the FAQs broken out by individual module, review The Financial Edge FAQs on our website. Here are the top FE questions...
The Ledger Lowdown: Get it in Balance
Nothing is more frustrating than when you run your Balance Sheet and the bottom line is out-of-balance . So here you are with an out of balance Balance Sheet that you need to have to your board in an hour, or, even worse, an hour ago. What should you...
Meet Ms. Queue
Do you run the same reports and queries everyday or every week? Would you like to hire an assistant to just run these reports so you can focus on more important things? FE has your assistant waiting. Please meet Ms. Accounting Queue: Ms. Queue is proficient...
Reconciliation Recommendations
At some point we all need to perform the dreaded reconciliation process. It can go smoothly, especially if you reconcile on a regular basis, or can be a headache if you don't reconcile regularly and have inconsistent data entry. The Transaction Business...
Is it Okay to Cancel Out of Posting, Copying, or Reversing a Batch?
Do you ever notice your workstation task manager shows The Financial Edge is not responding? Just because it shows not responding on your workstation doesn't mean that FE has stopped working. Many times the process is still running on the server....
The Ledger Lowdown: Get the Discounts You Deserve
When you purchase an item using credit or on account, you enter into a contract and agree to pay off the balance by a specific date, which is usually set by the vendor. Sometimes you even get a discount if you pay the balance early. I'm sure you're...
Got Backup?
Natural disasters, power outages, and hardware and network failures... Oh My! These things can happen at any time and could lead to unrecoverable data loss. Losing just one day's worth of data can be devastating to any organization, but if you back...
The Ledger Lowdown: Top Questions for April '09
Each month we keep track of the top questions you ask. This FAQs list includes GL, AP, AR, CR, FA, and general FE questions. To see the FAQs broken out by individual module, review The Financial Edge FAQs on our website. Here are the top FE questions...
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