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Furthering Your Knowledge
Of
Accounting and Purchasing
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Class Purpose
  • Intended for the person who is very familiar with LGC’s Flexgen Accounting and Purchasing software.
  • Also beneficial for someone who is fairly new to the software.
  • Demonstrate how to get more information out of the Accounting software
  • Learn how your office will benefit from Accrual Accounting
  • Ensure your vendors are properly configured for 1099’s, now instead of later.


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Accounting Reports
  • Statement of Revenue
  • Statement of Expenditures
  • Summary Financial Statement
  • Journals
  • Forecasted Amendment Report
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Statement of Revenue
  • Aids in determining the money collected or received by your entity compared to your estimated budget collections
  • Used for budgeting purposes when considering how to budget for next year
  • Compare Standard vs. Summarized
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Statements of Revenue
Standard and Summarized
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Statement of Revenue
Reading the Report
  • Original Estimate and Amended budgeted amounts
  • Total Estimated Budget
  • Year-to-Date Realized
  • Percent Realized
  • Unrealized
  • Current Revenue




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Statement of Revenue
Differences
  • Detailed report includes Cost Centers and Sub Objects
  • Summarized report groups Cost Centers and Sub Objects under the function
  • Summarized Provides a quick view of the totals collected for a specific revenue account disregarding the detail breakdown that exists as a result of the use of Cost Centers or Sub Objects
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Statement of Expenditures
  • Helpful in controlling the expenses incurred on a daily, monthly, and annual basis
  • Three varieties of the report
    • Standard
    • Summarized
    • By Object
  • Very useful when budgeting
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Statement of Expenditures
Reading the Report
  • Original Appropriations and Amendments
  • Total Appropriations
  • YTD Expenditures and YTD Encumbrances
  • Unencumbered Balance and Percent Used
  • Current Month Expenditures and Encumbrances
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Statement of Expenditures
Differences
  • Standard contains all detail information
    • Includes Cost Centers and Sub-Objects
  • Summarized groups items by function and object
  • By Object reports on specific object or objects entered
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Summary Financial Statement
  • Provides revenue and expenditure information per fund without the unnecessary detail provided by a Statement of Revenue or a Statement of Expenditures
  • Format of the report is simple, making it easier to read and understand
  • A great report to provide to your elected officials
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Journals
  • Groups information by type
  • Group information based on the entry type used to create the accounting entry
  • Some Entries are created automatically
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Forecasted Amendment Report
  • Good report for planning budget amendments as the end of year approaches
  • Located in Budget Reports
  • Note the Beginning Fiscal Year Report box
    • Software Assumes you are preparing for next year’s budget.
    • Enter the ending year of the Fiscal Year with which you are working



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Forecasted Amendment Report
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Accrual Accounting
  • Defined
    • Helps to accurately report expenditures when incurred (at the time of invoice creation)
  • How it works
    • Creates an Accounts Payable entry for each invoice entered
    • Offsets the expenditure assigned with and invoice to accounts payable.
  • Benefits
    • Timelier reporting of incurred expenditures
    • Accurate accounts payable balance


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Accrual Accounting
Sample Reports
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Managing Vendors for 1099’s
  • Why discuss now?
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Determining 1099 Vendors
  • 1099 Vendor Report
    • Current vendors configured for 1099’s
    • If no tax identification information (SS# or Tax #), not correctly configured
    • Should require all possible 1099 vendors to complete Request for Taxpayer Identification Number and Certification (form W-9)
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Determine 1099 Vendors
  • Current Vendors not flagged as 1099
    • No easy way to determine
    • Invoice History Listing by Vendor Number
      • Must manually identify
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Properly Configured 1099 Vendor
  • Most are Individuals
  • Most types are Non-Employee Compensation
  • Must have either the Vendor SSN or Tax Number
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Controlling 1099 Payout
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Furthering Your Knowledge
Of
Accounting and Purchasing
  • Thanks for Attending
  • LGC’s
  • Resource 2006
  • Class is now over!