 | Bank Reconciliation now sorts transactions by date (except for the ‘balance
forward’ transaction, which is always first); this was requested by the Law
Society’s Monitoring Unit; |
| also in Bank Reconciliation there is a new option to archive rather than delete
matched transactions; the archived transactions may be viewed as "historical"
items in Cashbook Enquiry; |
| a new program Transaction Search to help find that elusive transaction on the
matter ledger, client ledger or nominal ledger; you may enter any set of characters which
could appear in the transaction record (such as narrative, date, amount, etc.) – see
the revised user manual for more details; |
| a new program List Action Dates which lists all matters with an entry in the
Action Date field, in date order; |
| a new program Matter Transactions Enquiry, which is similar to Matter Account
Enquiry except that in addition to current transactions, it also lists the historical
entries (billed disbursements) for the matter, as well as the transaction narratives; |
| the despool program may now be accessed from the Miscellaneous Options menu, as well as
by entering despool at the main menu (as before); |
| a new screen input for program Export Details to allow the selection of which
details to export to ASCII text files for importing into a spreadsheet, word processor or
database; |
| in data entry, ctrl+left arrow will move the cursor one word to the left; |
| a new "enquiries only" menu for use by non accounts staff; this may be
accessed by running the DOS batch program looker (or, in Windows 95, looker95)
– if you wish to use this option, please phone for details of how to install it; |
| it is now possible to post a transaction that would take a client account overdrawn; a
new system parameter switches this facility on and off – this is only intended for
use if this situation actually occurred so the system represents what really occurred (it
has been added at the request of the Law Society’s Compliance Monitoring Unit); |
| List All Client Ledger Transactions now has an option to list only the client
interest payments; |
| in all transaction enquiry programs, including Bank Reconciliation, pressing the
Home key in the "Option" prompt will return to the first screenful of
transactions; |
| the Bills Analysis report now lists the billed time, billed disbursements, total
bill value, number of bills and average per bill, and number of matters and average per
matter in each category; it is also possible to select this report just for Legal Aid
bills, non-Legal Aid bills, or all bills, over the selected period; |
| Client Account Reconciliation now has an option to omit matters where the client
account balance is zero; it also prints, at the end of the report, a grand total of all
client money held; |
| a new program Detailed Matter Listing, which is similar to Matter Search
but lists the client name, address, phone and fax numbers and comments, and the matter
description, action date and comments for all selected matters; |
| correction of an error in Client to Office Transfer whereby the program reported
a credit on disbursement account even if the transfer was to pay a bill – whoops,
sorry! |
| a new program Close Matter, which allows a closure or completion date to be
entered for a matter – this has no accounting effect and does not inhibit the posting
of any transactions; it merely allows closed matters to be omitted from or identified on
certain reports; |
| yet another new program Legal Aid Work Analysis, which is similar to Bills
Analysis except that it only includes Legal Aid matters and only includes bills for
matters with a date of closure between the selected dates; |
| Matter Maintenance now requires the input of a matter opening date, which
defaults to today’s date – note that if you amend an old matter an opened date
will now be required; |
| a new report Opened Matters Listing, which lists all matters opened between
selected dates by analysis code A, analysis code B or client; |
| another new report Matter Balances Listing showing the balances on the bills,
disbursements, client ledger and work-in-progress accounts, as well as the date of the
last movement on the matter; |
| a bug which did not allow a cashbook to be deleted has been corrected in Maintain
Cashbook Details; this program also has the option to remove archived cashbook
transactions (see above). |
| the report Opened Matters Listing has been changed to Opened/Closed Matters
List and it now (not surprisingly) provides the ability to list either matters opened
or matters closed between selected dates and by category; |
| the ability in Nominal to Disbursement Transfer to enter a negative amount to
allow transfers from a matter’s disbursements to a nominal ledger account; |
| the ability in Maintain Nominal Accounts to set a budget for a nominal ledger
account and a new program Budget Variance Report to report on actuals, budgets and
variances; |
| a new program Maintain Standing Orders to enable you to set up regular payments
and receipts, which are automatically posted by Day End Processing; another new
program Print Standing Orders lists all regular payments and receipts; |
| Matter Search and Detailed Matter List now have the option to omit
matters that have been closed; |
| Matter Search also provides the ability to find matters by description or
narrative; |
| the printed report for Matter Transactions Enquiry now also shows the analysis
codes and the nominal interest; |
| Exception Report now includes the option to report on client account nominal
interest values; |
| an optional feature (available at an additional cost) has been added to provide a link
to Amicus Attorney so that client and matter details may be exported to Amicus
Attorney and time sheets may be imported from Amicus Attorney. |
| a new report Matters With No Transactions to list all matters that have no
transactions on any account (client account, matter ledger or work-in-progress). |
| Unpaid Bills Enquiry now gives an indication if there are funds on client
account for the matter. |
