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Leading firms through the next generation of change™. December 17 th. Getting Ready for Busy Season Part 1 of 2 Amy McCarty Education Services. RootWorks.com. Objectives. Learn the recommended cleanup of Practice CS, FileCabinet CS, and NetClient CS prior to tax season
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December 17th Getting Ready for Busy Season Part 1 of 2 Amy McCartyEducation Services RootWorks.com
Objectives • Learn the recommended cleanup of Practice CS, FileCabinet CS, and NetClient CS prior to tax season • Understand what to get ready for tax season • Learn the Organizer process and get all settings in place before tax season begins RootWorks.com
Cleanup of Practice CS • Clean up projects • Audit your open projects and complete/cancel/delete as necessary • Actions > Manage Projects • Clean up clients • Audit your client list and make clients inactive • Setup > Clients • Do this BEFORE your tax projects regenerate at the beginning of January or February! RootWorks.com
Cleanup of FileCabinet CS • Mark clients as Inactive • Individually update drawers: Drawer Properties • Bulk update drawers: Help > Repair > Update Drawer Status • Move Inactive Drawers to another data location/database • Create new data location/database • File > Copy Drawers to inactive location • Delete inactive drawers from active location RootWorks.com
Cleanup of NetClient CS • Delete portals of inactive clients • Delete documents of inactive clients • Admin > Utilities > Cleanup > Document Presentation RootWorks.com
Getting Ready for Tax Season • Proforma • Clients • Documents • Collations • Add Preparers not in UT13 • Verify settings proforma’d • User Preferences • Office Configuration options • Product Settings RootWorks.com
Organizer Process • Set Organizer Delivery to Paper • Setup > Client Communications • Can do in mass under Utilities > Reassign Clients • Print organizers to FileCabinet • Mark to go to NetClient CS • Push organizers to the portals • File > NetClient CS > select Changed and make connect call • Verify everything looks good on the portal • Email clients that their organizer is available RootWorks.com
Organizer Process • Organizers delivered via paper • Keep track in Practice CS • Client Custom Field setup as a checkbox • Print/Preview Client List report filtered by custom field • Use report generated out of Practice CS to print the organizers to paper from UltraTax CS RootWorks.com
Questions? RootWorks.com
Objectives • Learn the recommended cleanup of Practice CS, FileCabinet CS, and NetClient CS prior to tax season • Understand what to get ready for tax season • Learn the Organizer process and get all settings in place before tax season begins RootWorks.com
Resources on ngaf.com Resources by Product • Constant Contact • Constant Contact How To • FileCabinet CS • FileCabinet CS Implementation & Use • NetClient CS • NetClient CS Portals Setup & Use • UltraTax CS • The Complete Paperless 1040 Process Resources by Discipline • Practice Management • Client Exit Process RootWorks.com
Resources on ngaf.com Letters, Forms and Tools • Letters • Client Organizer Video Library • FileCabinet CS • Handling Inactive Clients • Integration with NetClient CS Part 1 • Integration with NetClient CS Part 2 • Integration with NetClient CS Part 3 • NetClient CS • Document Presentation Setup RootWorks.com
Getting Ready for Busy Season Part 2 • Learn some of the enhancements to 2014 UltraTax • Review the RootWorks recommended tax process • Understand the tools available to help with your processes RootWorks.com
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