Spring is here according to the calendar. Although, with snow on the ground in many parts of the country, it may not feel like it. The arrival of spring prompts many of us to start thinking about doing some spring cleaning. Included in your spring cleaning should be a review of your financial information. Here are a few things to think about cleaning up.
When entering transactions, it’s easy to enter, as new, the name of a customer or vendor that may already exist in your database. This creates a duplicate of that name and may make it difficult to find transactions related to that name. Having duplicate names also skews the numbers, when performing analysis of the business you’ve conducted with that person or company. In CenterPoint, you can easily go into setup and combine duplicate entries, making it easier to find transactions for that name.
Another example is one that I recently completed with my own personal data. Since I started keeping my personal records in our software (November 1987), I have had separate accounts (subaccounts) for electricity and gas under a utilities account. After over thirty years, (apparently, I’m a slow learner) I realized I have never looked at my utility costs at that level, so I combined the two accounts into a single utilities account I called “gas and electric”. Not a big deal, but it makes my data a little cleaner.
Of course, it’s also the end of a calendar quarter, and that’s always a good time to take a look at how your actual business is doing compared to the budget you created for the year. (You did create a budget, didn’t you?) Also, it’s good timing to check inventory that you have on hand against the information in your accounting program.
I’m sure you can think of a number of other things that can be done as part of your spring (data) cleaning.
Support has been discontinued for Champion Controller and Red Wing Windows Accounting Series. Therefore, there is no phone support or product updates available, and the software is no longer being sold to new customers. If you are using Champion Controller Payroll, there will be no tax table updates for 2018. Red Wing Software has new technology products with special pricing available for Champion Controller and Red Wing Windows Accounting Series users. Please contact a sales representative for more information at 800-732-9464.
We are pleased to offer our Red Wing Software customers an opportunity to learn more about CenterPoint via an online Virtual Classroom. The Virtual Classroom provides you with in-depth information and explanations that allow you to learn more about CenterPoint from any location where you can access the internet (high-speed internet connection recommended). The training sessions in the Virtual Classroom are presented live by one of our CenterPoint experts and are also recorded and sent to you so you can refer to the information afterwards (with or without attending the actual session).
You can view and register for available live sessions by clicking one of the links below.
CenterPoint Accounting - Setup & Features
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
9:30 am – 11:30 am CST
$59.00
CenterPoint Accounting - Chart of Accounts & Fixed Assets
Thursday, April 12, 2018
2:30 pm – 4:30 pm CST
$59.00
CenterPoint Accounting - Inventory Setup & Processes
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
2:30 pm – 4:30 pm CST
$59.00
Click here to register for these sessions.
A data importing tool is now available for all CenterPoint Accounting and Payroll products. The CenterPoint Data Importer is an easy-to-use, free tool, included in CenterPoint, that can be used to import a wide variety of data from outside systems into CenterPoint. Data that can be imported using the CenterPoint Data Importer includes: customer records, accounts receivable transactions, general journal entries, employee records, and more. The data must come from a comma delimited (.CSV) file, and users map the fields accordingly. The CenterPoint Data Importer is installed as a custom option. Current customers can install the option by either following the instructions at this link, or by contacting support.