The first tasks to complete in the Accounting CS application include entering information about your firm and setting up items your firm uses in processing data for your clients.
Note: If you are converting your information from another application, please refer to the Conversion topics.
We recommend setting up your firm information in the order listed below.
- Basic firm information (identification, address and contact information, additional contacts)
- Firm-level preferences (security preferences, data entry confirmation settings, enable/disable event tracking)
- Firm security (overview of firm security setup)
- Event tracking (method for monitoring all activities that occur within the firm database - optional)
- Sales taxes (sales taxes used by your firm to create client fees)
- Payroll automation (options to automate payroll tasks - optional)
- Payroll tracking (portlet for tracking payroll runs in real time - optional)
Payroll-related setup
- Firm banks (financial institutions used by your firm's clients)
- Firm impound bank accounts (bank accounts used by your firm for funding client payroll checks and payments to tax agents, for live payroll processing only)
- Tax agents (federal, state, and local tax agents used by your firm's clients)
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