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American Stimulus update

In conjunction with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, new payroll updates for TRAVERSE and OSAS have been released.

These payroll updates include new Federal Married, Single and EIC tax tables and a revised 941 form.  The 941 form allows for COBRA payments made by the employer on behalf of layed-off employees to be reimbursed to the employer by reducing the federal taxes paid for each payroll. 

These modified 941 program and new tax table updates are available to OSAS or TRAVERSE users who are current on their annual software maintenance plan.  If you have not received the updates give us a call and we will get the updated programs to you.


Improve operations and cash flow with email and fax

Did you know that you can email or fax many forms within your software?  Direct deposit vouchers, customer invoices and statements as well as purchase orders and ACH vouchers can all be emailed or faxed directly from OSAS and TRAVERSE.

As long as you have faxing software and an email with an SMTP server you can set up your software to automatically email and fax.

To activate, turn on the email and faxing options in the Options and Interfaces (OSAS) or Business Rules (TRAVERSE) section.  Then in the Customer, Vendor and/or Employee set up areas define the type of document you want each to receive along with themail address or the fax number to be used for the document delivery.  You can still have a second copy to be printed for your files.


Aged Trial Balance versus Open Invoice Reports - what's the difference?

The Aged Trial Balance ages the invoices that fall within the date ranges you specify and allows you to go back to certain periods in time.  This is especially handy when reconciling invoices for the prior year a few months into the next year against the Accounts Receivable account in the General Ledger. It will even show those invoices that have subsequently been paid since the period or date that you are running the ATB for, providing the paid invoices haven't been purged yet.

In Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, the Open Invoice Report for all unpaid invoices lists all Invoices that are due before the date that you request. It does not age these invoices into the 30-60-90 day aging 'buckets'. When run for all unpaid invoices with a date far in the future, this report will list all invoices owed regardless of incorrect dates.

In summary use the Open Invoice Report to look at where you are today and the Aged Trial balance for either where you are today or where you were.




At BAS, our goal is to provide flexible, simple-to-use accounting and business management systems and support to help your organization achieve unprecedented success.

If you would like to discuss issues you're experiencing in your organization and explore how we might help—call me today!

Sincerely,



Lillian and the BAS team



Helping your accounting make $ense


April 2009

In this Issue

American Stimulus update
Improve operations and cash flow with email and fax
Aged Trial Balance versus Open Invoice Reports - what's the difference?


Just a Note...

In a time of change and economic uncertainty, we are all working harder to implement strategies to save money.  The tips offered this month are practical suggestions to benefit most everyone - and it's already in your software!  So I'll hope you'll take advantage of these free tips - and stay tuned for more to come.

If you want learn more about optimizing your business operations with TRAVERSE and OSAS software, then attend our Customer Excellence Conference in June. The training educators and sessions are top notch and the price simply can't be matched.  there are even learning labs staffed with trained technical support personnel there to address your own business software questions.  To learn more, go to http://www.basi-usa.com/events.htm - or call me at (512) 267-227 and receive a $100 discount coupon.

Until next month,
Lillian



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