May User Group Wrap Up
Caseware Cloud User Group 5th May
Key learnings:
- Adding clients to Caseware Cloud so you can interact with them within this secure platform
- Assigning contacts to multiple entities (good for businesses with multiple entities)
- Contact permission levels – how to set them & what access this provides
- Communicating with clients through Caseware Cloud, making file transfers more seamless and with greater security
Next month’s topic June 2, 2020: What are the most common FAQs asked of the Customer Support Team about Cloud?
- Understanding Storage limits
- Deleting unwanted parent files
- Understanding which files on Caseware Cloud have been locked down post completion
- Requesting backups of Caseware Cloud from Caseware Support
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Caseware Audit System User Group 12th May
Key learnings:
- Planning and creating placeholders
- Inserting client documentation into placeholders – ‘Placeholders’ filter
- Referencing to placeholders
Placeholder FAQ link: Link to FAQ
Next month’s topic June 9, 2020: An overview of Xtend & some tips & tricks
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Caseware IDEA User Group – 19th May
Topic: Caseware Accounting Packages (CAP) Import – How To and Tips & Tricks
Key learnings:
- Using Cloud import utility to create the file to bring in
- Demonstration of CAP in action
- How to download a utility from Passport
More information:
To download CAP and Cloud Import Utility for your version of Caseware IDEA, use the following links:
(Note: earlier versions of Caseware IDEA do not have CAP functionality)
Next month’s topic June 16, 2020: How to automate in IDEA without scripting
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Caseware Financial Reporting User Group – 26th May
Topic: Year end close and roll forward in Financials & Latest on AASB 16 content included in Financials.
Key learnings:
- Overview of Year End close function.
- “Prepping” the engagement file for Roll forward- best practices.
- Year End close Process.
- Year End close and Roll forward of Consolidation files.
- AASB 16 Content Update in Financials.
AASB 16 Related & Useful links:
https://support.caseware.com.au/portal/kb/articles/what-s-new
https://support.caseware.com.au/portal/kb/articles/staff-update-guide
https://support.caseware.com.au/portal/kb/articles/financialsifrs-17-release-video