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The business accounting software from Legler Systems Company is updated with a number of new features with seven of the most significant software enhancements described below. These new software features are designed to improve user productivity and provide real-time management information (dashboards) for better decision making and customer service in 2010.
Real-time Bar Chart Dashboards and List Dashboards are displayed at the bottom of each application menu for user reference of key metrics. Up to four different real-time dashboards can be displayed and setup for each user, so that each user can predefine a specific dashboard or view all dashboards by using function keys F5/F6.
a. Bar Chart Dashboard (No. 1) is a bar chart by day for 15 days. If function key F4 is pressed, the bar chart is changed to show 15 months (x-axis).
b. Bar Chart Dashboard (No. 2) is a bar chart by day for 15 days of only large transactions (such as invoices over a predefined dollar limit). The dollar limit amount that defines large transactions is specified for each user in procedure DB08. If function key F4 is pressed, the bar chart is changed to show 15 months (x-axis).
c. List Dashboard (No. 3) is a list of the ten latest (most recent) transactions.
d. List Dashboard (No. 4) is a list of the ten oldest transactions, such as unpaid invoices in the AR System and AP System and open orders in the OE System and PO System.
To support real-time dashboards, two new fields (Dashboard-ID and Dollar-Limit) have been added to the DB08 entry screen in the Database Control System. Also, the large screen (80x50) feature implemented in Version 9.0 is required to display real-time Bar Chart Dashboards and List Dashboards.
A new report window is automatically opened when '92W' is the suffix of a print file (e.g. c:\newrpt.92W) defined in procedure '92'. Additionally, if the print file is defined as a regular disk file (e.g. c:\test.rpt), then when '92W' is entered as the procedure number on any menu screen, the report (as stored in c:\test.rpt) is displayed in a new separate report window.
Procedures '92W' and '92V' function the same, except '92W' displays the report in a separate report window, while '92V' displays the report in the original window. Either way, a report can be viewed without physically printing it. To print the report, press function key F9.
Using the new '92W' option allows the user to view a report at the same time other online transactions can be performed in the original window. The separate report window can be closed at any time without affecting the original window.
The accounting software is updated to support multiple sales tax rates for the same county as Code Definition Records (DB01 with a code-type of 'TX' and code-no equal to the county ID), where the comments field defines the effective from-to dates of the sales tax rate change for a county (DATES:20090501-20290501). The sales tax rate is stored in the Control-no field. The Rpt-Seqno field is used to identify multiple sales tax codes for the same county ID.
Any change in the state sales tax rate is easily implemented without having to change individual customer master records.
The standard password security check has been strengthened by displaying warning messsage W914 for a weak password when the 'PW' procedure is used to change a user's password. A user password should be more than 4 letters, numbers and special characters or a combination thereof.
When using the '#' lookup character, the search text prompt at the bottom of the screen has been expanded from 12 to 16 characters. To support this change, 14 copy members have been revised. Also, the search text prompt for procedures ML06, AP17, OE14, CR13 and FA13 have been expanded to 16 characters.
The Purchase Order System menu has been expanded with 3 new purchase order procedures:
a. PO02 - Enter Vendor Master Record (identical to AP01),
b. PO12 - Print Purchase History Report and
c. PO17 - Inquire PO History by Month.
All computer procedures that automatically create General Journal Records in the General Ledger System now set the source-code field to the procedure ID (e.g. AP09) that created the General Journal Record for audit purposes.
MORE INFORMATION:
Additional information on the basic accounting software features is described in the Accounting Software Summary document.
To receive additional information on the online business accounting software, including a detailed list of Version 10.0 enhancements, please e-mail Bill Legler in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.