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Tools that Accounting can provide to help
Project Managers
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Suggestions for Saved Searches:•Project Manager Is Me•Organization Is Mine
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VisionReviews
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•Project Review•Vendor Review•Invoice Review
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• The Project Review can be used to review project numbers (at Cost and/or at Billing). The drill down displays supporting detail.
• The Project Review follows the users security role which will determine if they can see labor at cost.
• Tabs available for the Project Review are: Cost, Billing, Accounts Receivable, Purchasing and Inventory
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For Project Review to Include Unposted Labor
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Vendor ReviewUse the Vendor Review
to view information about vouchers posted
to a consultant or contractor
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On the project managers role, use this saved search for Vendor
Record Level Access
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Find the Vendor Review under Accounting/Accounts Payable/Vendor
Review (access to Vendor Review will also need to be added to the project managers
security role)
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Invoice Review
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• The Invoice Review is sorted by Client – all projects for one client with open invoices will show in the list.
• You can click on Status and display by All, Paid in Full or Unpaid.
• You can select invoices by period or date range.
• You can view detail, preview the invoice or enter comments.
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InvoiceApproval
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The Invoice Approval feature allows you to efficiently move draft invoices through the submittal, rejection, approval, and acceptance stages to produce final invoices. Electronic alerts are sent automatically to the appropriate employees to notify them that the next action in the approval process is ready for them to complete. You can enter approval comments for invoices that can be shared easily with others.
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• In Invoice Approval – all invoices to be approved can be seen on one screen
• In Interactive Approval – invoices will be selected by project; the approver can see the tabs available in billing (labor/expense/units)
• Both allow the approver to toggle to the project info center and project review
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With additional Security Rights,
project managers can Update the
Fee Percent Complete in Interactive
Invoice Approval
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See Pending Invoice Approvals
in Navigator too – the orange sunburst shows how
many need approving
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Vision Dashparts
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To Add A System DashpartClick the drop down arrow by Configure; Name the dashpart and select the dashpart from the Dash Part Type drop down arrow
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To Add Projects
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Adding Alerts to the Dashboard lets the project manager know as soon as a timesheet
or expense report has been submitted.
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Add My Reports – make accessing saved reports quick for the project managers
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The Project Visualization is a graphical representation of key metrics for your projects, such as job-to-date revenue, billing, accounts receivable, profit, or
spent amounts. The Project Visualization is available if your firm uses Vision
Accounting and Customer Relationship Management (CRM).
Visualization Dashboards
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•Select a project report – set the options•SAVE THE OPTIONS as a favorite
Creating a Visualization Dashboard
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Setting up the Project Report
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Preview the Report
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Save Your Search Criteria
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Save the Report as a Favorite
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Select Visualization Reporting
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The Scroll Bars Allow You To Change The Metric Values
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Create the Dashpart
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Using the Scroll Bars
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The Scroll Bars are primarily used for the
Reporting Option rather than the
Dashboard Option
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Hover over a project box to see the tips
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Right Click on a Project to bring up the Menu Options
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• From this menu, you can run any of the reports you selected on the drill down tab•You can magnify or demagnify
a project
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VisionTips &Tricks
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Vision Tip #1The Vendor “Paid This Year” field on the accounting tab updates when payments are processed not when vouchers are posted.
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Vision Tip #2
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The Project Detail Report can be sorted by Billing Status (selected on the General
Tab). You can run a report to see the labor hours and amounts that have been
written off.
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Note: Any billing items that have been Modified before Writing Off
(example – to add a comment indicating who initiated the write off) will show with a Billing Status of M not X.
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You can create a Bad Debt Write Off Report by using the General Ledger Account Analysis Report -
Vision Tip #3
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Vision Tip #4
By using the record access tab/record level view field, you can limit the Clients that an employee will see. Example - only the clients on certain projects.
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If you’re having trouble importing credit card
charges into Vision – copy and paste into Notepad and then import (as a .txt file).
Vision Tip #5
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Second Quarter User Group Meetings:Hawaii June 9, 2015
San Antonio June 16, 2015Houston June 17, 2015
Baton Rouge June 23, 2015
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