Known Issues in
Amicus Accounting
Applies to: Amicus Accounting Release 2006.02
Amicus Accounting
(Small Firm Edition) Release ASF-ACC-2006-02
Updated: April 24, 2007
This document
lists outstanding known issues in the specified current builds of Amicus
Accounting. They are grouped together by topic. Within each section, issues are
sorted by number, highest to lowest.
Contents
- Time
- Trust
- Billing
- Receipts
- Accounts
Payable
- General
Ledger
- Reports
- Start Up
- Miscellaneous
- Windows
Vista
- Integration
with Amicus Attorney
Time
11074—You may post transactions dated prior to the Client Matter’s open date, and no warning is shown.
Trust
11080—If the current date is in the new fiscal year but the previous fiscal year is still open (because year-end processing has not yet been done), you may post trust receipts using the current date. Then, if you post trust transfer to pay A/R in the previous year, the balance of the trust will include these receipts.
Billing
15095 (New Posting)—If Amicus Accounting has been
reinstalled on your file server and your backup restored, the Reprint Bills
function might not work.
WORKAROUND: At the Server, move the \RTF folder from \AmicusAccounting to \AmicusAccounting\bills.
13629—In
the A/R Reminder Statements function, neither of the Detailed Statement options
at the bottom of the dialog are selected by default, and the Statement that
will be generated in that case is not useful.
WORKAROUND: Select one of the Detailed
Statement options.
13627—If a printer is not set up and connected properly at your workstation, draft bills cannot be displayed.
13616—When you create draft or final bills, the bills might not appear in other tabs of the Create Bills dialog until you close and reopen the dialog.
13615—If you split a bill between a task-based Client Matter and a non-task-based Client Matter, the bill created for the non-task-based Client Matter shows 0 as the total, and the A/R Expenses in the Client’s subledgers are not updated.
13611—In the Bill Multiple Clients tab of the Billing > Create Bills function, clicking the Create Draft Bills button (or Create Final Bills button) will not create any bills unless you first change the Client/Matter option away from All (Matters), and then back to All (Matters).
12117—Bills
that were run with the “New Invoices For Each Client” option
selected in the Bill Multiple Clients tab of the Create Bills function cannot
be printed by the Reprint Bills function .
WORKAROUND: Using Microsoft Word, open
and print the RTF format bills located in the \bills\RTF\<year><month>
subfolder of the folder where Amicus Accounting is installed.
11554—If
you select one of the Split Bill to Multiple Parties options in Client Matter
Details, a billing run of multiple Client Matters will not include both the
“parent” Client Matter and the “child” Client Matters
to which its bills are to be split. Charges posted against the
“child” Client Matters will not be included in the bill.
WORKAROUND: Run another bill for the
“child” Client Matters.
11424—If there are multiple clients listed in the Draft Bills tab
of the Create Bills dialog, and your cursor is on the last client, then when
you switch to another tab and return to the Draft Bills tab, only that last
client is shown in the list.
WORKAROUND: Scroll up in the list to see the other clients.
Receipts
13610—In the Receipts > A/R Write-offs function, if you click in the Description field after entering a value in the Fee Amount or Expense Amount fields, the rightmost digit in the amount is truncated.
12863—If
your firm charges tax on fees or expenses, then when you receive payment from
the Client, the tax portion of the receipt is not automatically posted to the
Tax Billed/Collected G/L account. (This issue also applies to receiving payment
for billed expenses if taxes were charged to the Client.)
WORKAROUND: In order to account for tax
properly, post the fee portion of the payment first, and then post a separate
entry for the tax portion by selecting the appropriate G/L account for taxes.
Finally, to remove the balance representing the tax portion of the bill in the
Client's A/R balance, post an A/R write off.
Accounts Payable
13704 (New
Posting)—In Accounts Payable > Invoice Entry, clicking on the
Client No. selector might cause the application to appear to hang.
WORKAROUND: Press the Client No.
selector a few more times.
13625—If a printer is not set up and connected properly at your workstation, some reports might not be displayed properly.
General Ledger
12966—From the Unprinted Audits function, only User No. 1 can print audits for other users. Other Users can only print their own audits from this function.
Reports
13608 (New
Posting)—Print preview of the Accounts Payable > Vendor
Transactions Listing might show asterisks in place of amounts.
WORKAROUND: Add a printer to the
computer.
13014—If multiple clients are selected for a report preview (e.g. in the Billing > Pre-Bills function), you must click on the Exit icon in the print preview toolbar to move on to the next client, and must continue until all clients have been viewed.
12121—If you right-click on a report in the Reports module, non-functional Microsoft Internet Explorer options appear in the shortcut menu.
Maintenance
13702—Whenever an automatic backup is run from the prompt that
appears at login, any backups more than 5 days old are automatically deleted.
WORKAROUND: If you wish to ensure that
older backups are kept, periodically copy them to CD or another folder.
Start Up
14385—If you deleted and added users before attempting to apply the License Key from Gavel & Gown, a message might appear, saying that the license is for fewer users than you have, and you will be unable to apply the license. For assistance, call Technical Support.
12347—When adding or editing a User Group, disabling access to a
function in one module does not automatically disable access to it in all
modules where it appears.
WORKAROUND: To completely disable a
Group’s access to a particular function (e.g. Account Inquiry), disable
access to the function in all relevant modules.
Windows Vista
14424 (Newly
Revised)—The Amicus Accounting Online Help might not work under
Vista.
WORKAROUND: Copy AmicusAccountingHelp.chm from the Accounting\AmicusAccounting folder on the Amicus CD to the Desktop on
your computer—double-click the icon on your Desktop to run Help directly.
14422 (Newly Revised)—The
Amicus Accounting Check For Updates function in Amicus Accounting 2006.01.01
might not work under Vista.
WORKAROUND: To check for updates:
1. Right-click on the Amicus Accounting icon on
your Desktop.
2. Choose Properties > Compatibility.
3. Select the "Run this program in
compatibility mode for:" checkbox and choose “Windows XP Service
Pack 2” in the dropdown list.
4. Click OK.
5. Launch Amicus Accounting, and choose Check For Updates from the Help menu.
N18—If you install Amicus Accounting in the Program Files folder
under Vista, it will not work properly.
WORKAROUND: In order to run under Vista,
Amicus Accounting must be moved to another location, such as the default install location - [drive]:\AmicusAccounting.
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