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F.A.Q.

General

Run the Purge routine to clean out the sample data. "Most" will zap everything except the system and users tables. "Some" will also leave vendor, customers, items, and the chart of accounts.
Add the fiscal periods for the current, prior and following year. Ensure that the dates match their current fiscal periods.
Create a chart of accounts. Your customer should already have the structure for this from their accountant. If not, get their accountant's help for this. Groups may be replicated, so set up a complete chart of accounts for one entity and use the replicate option for others. (If you are not going to be using the GL module, set up just the accounts required by the other modules you will be using. Those will be found in the general parameters option and in the item file.)
Set up each job if tracking job costing information is desired.

General Ledger

Create your entities and cost-centers (if you are using them.)
Set up their beginning balances. Do this by creating a GL batch and enter the last period of the prior year as the batch period. This assumes that you're starting at the beginning of the year. If starting in mid-year, they may enter the balances as of the prior period.
Run a trial balance to make sure that everything is in balance.
Set up budget categories for the accounts that they wish to track.
Set up budgeted amounts for each account. This is a fairly tedious process, and budgeting can wait until everything else is underway.

Accounts Receivable

Set up the customer file.
Set up the current balances for each customer. There are two approaches that are usually taken here. One is to enter the each invoice using the original invoice date and the current invoice balance as the original amount. This will provide accurate aging reports from the very beginning but requires a considerable amount of data entry to get going. The other approach is to enter only one dummy invoice per customer, with the amount being the customer's current balance. If you choose this method, it will be 90 days before the aging report becomes meaningful.
Run an aging report to ensure correctness of the customer balances.

Accounts Payable

Set up the vendor file.
Enter each outstanding invoice and the current balance on each.
Run an aging report to ensure correctness of the customer balances.
If using laser checks on blank check stock, set the LASER CHECKS field in the SYS table to True.

Order Entry

Set up the customer file.
Set up ship-to addresses.
If your customer will be using the laser forms for invoices, orders and quotes, select the "plain paper forms" option in the System Defaults option in the Admin module.
Set up the item file. Besides actual inventory, they will also want to add non-inventory items like shipping charges, setup charges, etc.
Create records for each of the sales staff
Create records for each taxing authority (sales tax).

Inventory/Purchasing

Set up the item file.
Set up the vendor file.
If your customer chooses to use the multiple inventory location option, select that in the System Defaults option in the Admin module.
If you will be using the BOM feature, set up the "kits."
Enter the beginning on-hand quantities by entering receipts for those quantities for each item/location.

Payroll

Set up the tax tables for federal, state and local taxes.
Set up the table of pay types. (The defaults may be sufficient.)
Add all deductions and employer contributions to the the master adjustment file.
Add each employee to the employee table and enter the taxes and deductions for each.

Fixed Assets