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- Prentice Hall Professional Software has introduced FAST! Consolidations, a
- new module for accounting professionals designed to create consolidating
- and consolidated workpapers and financial statements for an unlimited
- number of subsidiaries.
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- FAST! Consolidations is an add-on module to Prentice Hall's workpaper and
- trial balance package, FAST! Advantage, released in November 1991. Both
- systems highlight a new user interface that features look-up lists,
- pull-down menus, and popup windows for easy passage throughout the
- software.
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- Users can access FAST! Consolidations directly from the FAST! Advantage
- Main Menu. Consolidations are made simple with an on-screen list. Users
- can add, replace, or delete subsidiaries individually by working from this
- list.
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- The system gives accountants the flexibility to consolidate individual
- client data within FAST! Advantage into one reporting entity. All of the
- account detail from the various subsidiaries is accessible in the new
- consolidated client's data. All FAST! Advantage system functions are
- available for the consolidated entity.
-
- "In response to requests from Prentice Hall customers, the new FAST!
- Consolidations system includes the ability to create eliminating journal
- entries at the account level," said Product Manager Suzanne Phillips.
-
- The consolidated client can be a subsidiary in a higher-level
- consolidation, providing unlimited levels of consolidation. Once
- consolidated, users can access and analyze totals using FAST! Advantage.
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- FAST! Consolidations is priced at $195 and can be purchased by contacting
- Prentice Hall Professional Software.
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- Prentice Hall Professional Software has added FASB 96 projections in the
- latest version (2.17) of its Depreciation system for IBM PC and compatible
- computers. The release also includes the ability to send detail asset
- information to The Prentice Hall Tax Advantage System.
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- The new projections option allows accounting professionals to calculate
- depreciation expenses for up to 40 years for FASB 96 purposes. Users can
- do projections for all of a client's assets, or select assets by asset
- number and/or date of acquisition. This option can also be used to project
- depreciation for financial planning purposes.
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- The system automatically prints a FASB 96 Annual Difference Report when
- users perform the option to project FASB 96. The new report shows the
- annual differences between book and federal depreciation, as well as ACE
- and AMT adjustments, in summary or for each asset.
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- In addition to summary totals, accountants can now send detail asset
- information for federal reporting purposes to Tax Advantage. Once there,
- Tax Advantage's depreciation option can be used to enter additional data,
- and then transfer the results directly to the applicable corporate, S
- corporation, or partnership return.
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- Depreciation is priced at $995 and can be purchased by contacting Prentice
- Hall Professional Software.
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- Prentice Hall Professional Software has released the first updated version
- (1.02) of Practice Advantage, the company's completely new practice
- administration system for accountants, introduced in October 1991.
- Security of firm information and more flexible billing highlight the
- features in this update.
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- Security is the major new feature in Practice Advantage Version 1.02. It
- gives accountants complete control of their CPA firm's information by
- restricting access to firm information and Practice Advantage functions.
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- With these new security features, the accountant can assign staff passwords
- and access rights to selected information. A security supervisor can be
- designated for the firm, who can then assign access rights to each staff
- person.
-
- "By restricting staff access to Practice Advantage areas, such as accounts
- receivable, only the authorized functions will appear on that person's
- Main menu, increasing productivity by reducing learning time," said Bob
- Wolff, Prentice Hall's product manager for Practice Advantage.
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- In addition, firms can turn off the ability for selected staff to: Update
- work-in-progress (WIP), see staff billing rates and computed WIP amounts
- on-screen, enter time and expense overrides, and view and print selected
- reports.
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- Furthermore, another staff member can be allowed to view and correct all
- time and expenses before posting them to WIP. Selected staff members can
- be given the ability to approve invoices as well.
-
- Greater simplicity and flexibility mark the billing enhancements included
- in Practice Advantage Version 1.02.
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- When accountants work with manual bills or billing worksheets, Practice
- Advantage now provides more options for selecting the transactions they
- want to bill. Transactions can be selected by: Engagement, Service ID,
- Service group ID, and Staff ID. Users can also select to bill all
- transactions or just those classified as time, expense, or non-WIP.
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- In another new billing feature, users can now allocate a write-up,
- write-down, or a bill amount across selected transactions. Billing of a
- client's monthly WIP is reduced to two keystrokes, plus write-up or
- write-down amounts.
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- Practice Advantage is priced from $1,595, with network upgrades starting at
- $295.
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- Prentice Hall is an industry leader in professional accounting, tax, and
- real estate management software, serving more than 12,000 customers.
- Prentice Hall Professional Software is a member of the Software and
- Information Services Division of Simon & Schuster's Professional
- Information Group. Simon & Schuster, a Paramount Communications company,
- is engaged in professional, consumer and educational publishing
- worldwide.
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- Prentice Hall Professional Software can be contacted at 2400 Lake Park
- Drive, P.O. Box 723597, Atlanta, GA 30339 or by telephone at (800)
- 241-3306, or in Atlanta at (404) 432-1996.
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