Leading firms through the next generation of change™

1. Leading firms through the next generation of change™

2. Q4 2012 Webinar ACS Conversion: What We Have Learned May 10, 2013

3. Learning objectives • Learn Tips & Tricks for converting from CSA to ACS • Cover items you may want to consider not converting from CSA • Go through the next steps after conversion

4. Our Conversion Process • Used CSA to Process Payroll and Do Financial Statements (no G/L, CBS, Engagement) • Began Conversion in 2012 • Finished Conversion Jan 2013 • Trained Staff – Now have Periodic Meetings to cover any questions/issues • Found the Conversion gave us the opportunity to setup items and set processes in a standard format

5. Recommended Strategy For Converting • Payroll Only Clients First • Clients you use CSA to just do the Tax Return (Trial Balance Only Clients) • Clients you do Financials for (Start with easier clients first) • Clients with more complex Financials • Clients you use CBS or Engagement CS for

6. Recommended Strategy For Converting • Payroll Only Clients First • Clients you use CSA to just do the Tax Return (Trial Balance Only Clients) • Clients you do Financials for (Start with easier clients first) • Clients with more complex Financials • Clients you use CBS or Engagement CS for

7. What we chose to NOT CONVERT • Payroll Earnings Data – We converted employee demographics and input the YTD Earnings • Financial Statements – The only ones you may want to convert is very detailed formats you created in CSA • Accounting related Transaction and Balances – We re-imported Trial Balances from QB • Essentially we did not convert anything that once converted did not allow us to make changes and clean-up our data

8. Our Conversion Process - Payroll • Changed employee ID’s in CSA to not include symbols • Removed Salary Amounts from inactive departments on Employees • Re-queued the checks for WebEmployee after changing Employee ID’s • Did not convert Vendors – ACS has the Payroll Vendors and we re-setup our Garnishment, etc. Vendors • Had a Client (not Template Client) setup with default payroll items for 401K, Caf. Plans to map our existing items to (ACS Tracks Tax Treatment of Certain Items) • After Conversion – Setup our Payroll Check Layout, Report Profiles, Entered Earnings Data and customized Batch Data Entry Screen.

9. Our Conversion Process - Accounting • Did Not Convert Transactions or Balances • Converted Chart of Accounts • Made sure our COA in ACS and QB were matching • Re-imported Trial Balances from QB and imported for comparative statements • Re-Setup our Financials – Most Clients are Setup using the same template Financials

10. What Is Your Plan? • Engagement CS or CBS Clients? • What do you replace CBS with? • Is Workpapers CS ready to replace Engagement CS? • Training the Firm – If you don’t get trained on ACS – 1. Don’t Complain about the System 2. It’s setup and organized totally different than CS • Thomson Training Options • RootWorks Training? The Inevitable Truth is that CSA will cease to exist (Date unknown as of now), if ACS is your planned replacement, a thought out Plan is Highly Recommended What is not recommended is waiting until you are forced to make the conversion.

11. Leading firms through the next generation of change™