Referring someone is easy. Simply urge them to contact us at (913) 312-8999 or via email at info@mas-ss.com. We thank you for your support and for putting your trust in us.

These road maps can be helpful and will direct most end of month/year processes however some companies have unique business processes that require additional steps. MAS Software Solutions can help you create a personalized checklist specific to your unique needs. Many of our clients have already taken advantage of using a personalized checklist and have found this to be very helpful. We encourage you to use these tools and please contact us if you need any assistance along the way.

• Confirm all transactions are entered and posted
• Run inventory negative tier report/adjustment if using Fifo/Lifo, Lot/Serial. (Inventory/Period End)
• Post Recurring Journal in General Ledger
• Reconcile Bank Accounts
• Print Inventory Trial Balance Report as of the end of the month and confirm it balances with the general ledger
• Print Purchases Clearing Report and confirm it balances with the general ledger
• Print A/R Trial Balance Report or A/R Aged Invoice Report by transaction date as of the end of the month and confirm it balances with the general ledger
• Print open Sales Order Report to confirm correctness of open orders
• Print open Purchase Order Report to confirm correctness of open orders
• Reconcile prepaid and accrued accounts
• Confirm monthly difference on cash flows statement for cash
• Prepare and review monthly, quarterly, annual financial reports
• Distribution of financial reporting package
• Perform period end processing for all modules
• Perform period end processing quarterly for Payroll
• Perform period end processing annually for Material Requirements Planning

As the year end quickly comes to and end and the team at MAS Software Solutions wants to ensure you are prepared. Undoubtedly there will be a few more steps you will need to take as you close out your year. If you would like our assistance in regards to your backup database, creating a new fiscal calendar, closing out your fiscal year, or any other year end processes please give us a call.

We look forward to talking with you soon and would be happy to help you with all of your month-end and year-end needs.

A BI platform should deliver 13 capabilities that support integration, information delivery, and analysis, according to Gartner. The research firm expects to see a greater demand for tools that go beyond information delivery to “enable easier and more intuitive analysis to discover new insights.” These key features are:

1. Shared BI infrastructure
2. Microsoft Office integration
3. Metadata management
4. Search-based BI
5. Development tools
6. Online analytical processing (OLAP)
7. Collaboration
8. Interactive visualization
9. Reporting
10. Predictive modeling and data mining
11. Dashboards
12. Scorecards
13. Ad hoc query

More CIOs than ever are turning to business intelligence (BI) to make sense of all this data, according to recent surveys by research firm Gartner and CIO magazine. With BI, CIOs can pinpoint the data that will drive better business decisions and get it in the hands of the employees who can take action with it. BI is evolving to become more predictive, giving CIOs greater insight into how the business is performing now and in the future. When done right, it can help organizations discover their strengths (and capitalize on them) and ferret out their weaknesses.

Is reporting a challenge in your business? Do you use Excel? Do you spend a lot of valuable time on manual & repetitive tasks, like copying, pasting, exporting, and formatting in Excel? Is preparing timely financials a challenge in your business? Join us to learn how you can use a familiar Microsoft Excel® format to make reporting simple and get access to critical data for insightful decision making using Sage ERP MAS Intelligence.

Sage ERP MAS Intelligence has arrived in time to provide you with powerful business intelligence reporting, just as Microsoft® sends FRx® into retirement. More than an FRx replacement, Sage MAS Intelligence offers powerful and easy to use graphical financial reporting capabilities to address your needs. During this session you will:

• Be able to assess whether you need Sage ERP MAS Intelligence
• Receive an overview and demonstration of Sage ERP MAS Intelligence and its capabilities
• Understand the benefits of Sage ERP MAS Intelligence
• Have the opportunity to get your questions answered

They say seeing is believing and when it comes to Sage ERP MAS Intelligence that statement could not be more true. See for yourself how powerful this tool really is and register for this free webinar today. Click here to register.

October 20th
Introducing Sage ERP MAS Intelligence – Reports and Analysis for Sage MAS 90 and 200.

November 17th
Excel® Tips and Tricks: Organizing Your Information

December 15th
Excel® Tips and Tricks: Pivot Tables

For more information or to register for this month’s webinar click here.

However putting off improvement can be a mistake if the time is right to make a change; and if it can produce a great ROI and improve organization-wide efficiency. That’s where we come in. We have provided some of the indicators you can look for within your company to determine if the time is right to consider implementing a Bar Code Scanning Solution, or if it would not be beneficial for you at this time.

Analyzing Your Pain Points
A ‘pain point’ is an area in which your company experiences inefficiency; inaccuracy; errors; wasted time; etc. Ask yourself, and your staff the following:

• Do you struggle with inventory inaccuracy?
• Do you commonly experience shipping and receiving errors?
• Are you forced to handle and transfer the same data among multiple staff members, multiple times?
• Are you desiring or needing to find ways to save time and improve efficiency throughout your company?
• Are your customers frustrated with staff who have to physically check whether items are in stock, or who are receiving the wrong items?

If you answered yes to three or more of the questions above, it might be time to consider making a change. A bar code scanning solution can help your company improve inventory accuracy by streamlining operations and producing a greater overall efficiency across your warehouse, accounting and sales departments. With a scanning bar code for each transaction, your inventory management system is automatically updated in real-time giving your staff consistent and immediate access to the information they need. By scanning, verifying and updating information within one system you will see countless improvements throughout your company. And the best part is many bar code scanning solutions are designed to integrate directly with your accounting system. This saves you the hassle of installing or maintaining separate databases.

We hope you found this information helpful and are always available to answer any questions you may have regarding making changes and improvements within your company.

Sage MAS Intelligence benefits will include:

• Quickly identify and respond to trends using sophisticated, customizable dashboards
• Empower your staff with timely, meaningful information and trend reports
• Easily create in-depth financial, operations, customer, and vendor reports
• Efficiently view, manipulate, analyze, and distribute reports in a familiar Excel format
• Extract up-to-the-minute high level summaries, account groupings, or transaction details
• Effortlessly consolidate data from multiple companies, divisions, and databases
• Streamline customized work in Excel

Sage MAS customers on plan will be provided with a trade-in option for existing FRx licenses.  Details on this program will be provided very soon. This new add-on is more than just an FRx replacement; it’s an active dashboard with extensive reporting that can ultimately replace Crystal Reports. If it does half of what we think it can do, it won’t change the world, but it will change your world with access to business-critical information and reporting.

During the conference we spoke on “The Greatest Risk to Your Software System”, which seemed to peak a lot of interest so we’ve included a summary of this information here.

One of the greatest risks a company faces is the implementation of a new software system, because of the cost and interruption to their business. Some of you may have heard of the Pareto principle, but for those that have not it states: Roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. We use this rule to focus on system processes and procedures.

Successful businesses tend to:

• Stay up-to-date on software maintenance, and run the most current version of the software
• Use their technology to gain a competitive advantage.
• Invest in their staff with consistent training.

Take a look at the graphic above. It compares the satisfaction of companies who stay consistent with their software maintenance with those that do not. You can clearly see (in red) that the company who maintains their system is the most satisfied. However what the second graph shows below is that over time, consistent maintenance costs far less.

For those who are interested in getting more information on this topic as well as the entire conference presentation and handouts they can be downloaded here.

If you would like to schedule your upgrade please contact us and we would be happy to assist you in installing it.

“The decision to work with MAS Software Solutions was the best choice we could have made for our company. They consistently respond quickly to any questions we have, and we are confident that any recommendations they make will always be in our best interest. They were able to eliminate all of our unnecessary custom programming, improve our shipping by implementing Starship, and help us identify ways in which to better utilize our software. We feel like we got a whole new system! We now have streamlined invoicing, integrated shipping, a pick ticket option and the list goes on and on. Our invoicing used to take us two to three days and now we are able to complete it in one afternoon. The best part about working with them is that they are always available when we need them. That is huge. We really couldn’t ask for a better solution provider.”

If you feel the same way about the service we’ve provided to you, and you know of a company that is either struggling with their software system or simply needs an accounting expert, MAS Software Solutions would love the opportunity to earn their business.