Accountant's Assistant Handbook

Important! Do not mark this checkbox if the client is using 
CBS PayCheck. The program converts payroll items and 
earnings information for a client using CBS PayCheck to 
CSA payroll items in CBS when the client imports data from 
the first accountant’s transfer file from Accountant’s 
Assistant into CBS. 
The employees’ payroll items and earnings information in 
CSA will be updated by each client export file that you 
retrieve into Accountant’s Assistant. 
ƒ  Include payroll items with zero amounts. Converts all payroll 
items for an employee. Otherwise, only the payroll items with 
year-to-date earnings for an employee will convert. 
ƒ  Convert transactions. When converting a CBS client, this 
checkbox should be marked so that transactions and account 
balances are converted. 
ƒ  Convert Accountant’s Utilities data. Converts data from Client 
Bookkeeping Solution Accountant’s Utilities (CBS AU). Data 
from Checkbook Solution Accountant’s Utilities (CBS for DOS) 
will not be converted. Note any localities are not converted from 
CBS AU Display UAUUL. After completing the conversion 
process, you will need to go into Accountant’s Assistant and 
(from Setup / PayCheck Tax Information / Local dialog) add any 
localities that existed in CBS AU. Also, if you have used CBS 
AU Display UAUSPMt to mark specific deductions to turn off, 
then you will need to go into Accountant’s Assistant and (from 
Setup / Miscellaneous Information / PayCheck tab) select those 
deductions in the grid provided. 
6.  Choose one of the following options: 
ƒ  Create new CSA client. Enter the WS2 client ID for the new 
CSA client. 

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Appendix B: Converting CBS Clients from WS2 to CSA 
 
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Important! If you would like to use a client ID in the CSA 
program different from the one used in WS2, prior to the first 
export of client data you or your client must change the client ID 
in the CBS program (on the Database Management tab of the 
Utilities / Administrator Utilities dialog) to match to CSA 
program. 
ƒ  Convert into current client. For this option, the client database 
must already be open in CSA. No payroll information is 
converted and only information on the General Ledger tab of the 
Client Properties dialog is overwritten. This option is meant to 
be used for an existing Payroll CS client for whom you need to 
add the General Ledger module. 
7.  Click the Convert button. Data will be converted as described in the 
Write-Up Solution II to Creative Solutions Accounting Conversion 
Guide. To view this guide, search on Converting client data from 
the index in the CSA help browser, and then select the topic called