Accountant's Assistant Handbook

Note: You should mark the CBS client checkbox in the General 
Information tab of the File / Client Properties dialog to designate the 
client as a CBS client. If the client will be using the noncalculating 
payroll features of CBS CheckWriter,
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 you should also mark the 
Non-calculating Payroll client checkbox. 
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When preparing setup information for the client in Accountant’s 
Assistant, you can set up the Bookkeeping Activity Monitor to 
instruct the client’s CBS software to automatically generate report 
information for you whenever certain trigger activities occur within 
the client’s CBS program. As the accountant, you can define which 
CBS bookkeeping events should be reported to you. The activity 
report can be sent back to you via email attachment or along with the 
client’s export information. 
 

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Accountant’s Assistant Overview 
 
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Accountant’s Assistant Handbook 
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After importing data from the accountant’s transfer file that you 
created, your client can begin processing transactions in CBS. At the 
end of each processing period, the client will create an export file of 
the company’s transactions to send to you. You use Accountant’s 
Assistant to retrieve the information from the client’s export file so 
you can review and edit the transactions before transferring them to 
CSA. 
Note: The client can export data from CBS CheckWriter, CBS 
Accounts Payable, and CBS Accounts Receivable at any interval you 
specify. However, CBS PayCheck
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 data must be exported on a 
monthly basis.  
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Regardless of how many of your clients are using CBS, you need 
only a single installation of Accountant’s Assistant. 
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Use Accountant’s Assistant to select CSA information to generate 
and create an accountant’s transfer file to send the information to 
your client. You can transmit the information for the accountant’s 
transfer file on a form of removable media, attached to an email 
message, or transmitted via private portal on a web page if running