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The import is accomplished by running Start | Newvoews 2.0 | NV1 Import (just as you did with the books you mentioned above.)
After the books have been imported they can be used in single-user mode, or offered through a server.
Bob Halpin
>Re: Adjust time delay
>Posted by: DGlezos (110.218.228.216.cpe.axion.ca)
>Date: June 29, 2005 02:32PM
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>Have you not found that the export to Excel for printing is very limited in that >Excel does not recognize the numbers as such but as characters so you can’t really >work “downstream” mathematically?Can you explain that problem a bit more? In every test I’ve concocted, numbers arrive in Excel as numbers, not text. So I’m curious about where this is happening to you.
Bob Halpin
The “Pay Account” function is not available on reports.
It is on the menu when you are on the table of AP accounts (NewViews/Account/Accounts Payable).
Bob
Yes.
All employee earnings accounts have the settings “Subject to tax/ei/cpp/etc.” and all deduction accounts have the settings “Reduces tax/ei/cpp/etc.”
These replace the arcane E= codes in NV1 which offered extremely limited control over the effect of a given earning or deduction on subsequent calculations.
In your case, you would
– set the vacation pay earned accounts to “Subject to tax/ei/cpp” to “yes”
– set the vacation pay withheld (accrued) accounts to “Reduced tax/cpp/ei) to “no”
– set the vacation pay paid accounts to “Subject to tax/cpp/ei” to “no”.
Bob
Oh, I get it.
When you do (Menu) Window -> Default Setup, the existing windows are destroyed. If the number of windows that are being destroyed is over 10 (I think) then you get that progress indicator and the word dependants appears there.
Bob
Henry,
I seriously doubt if it’s legal to take deductions on an employee’s check for moneys that they have not actually been paid (accrued vacation pay in this instance.)
Yes, it might be “nice” to be able to write a “straight check” to an employee for their vacation pay, but being nice, and following CRA rules/laws are often two different things.
Bob Halpin
From Henry Mah, 07-03-05 11:13:
… I did notice that it deleted 13 depandants [sic].
It did what?
Bob Halpin
The anchor date is the simplest thing in NV2, and seemingly the most difficult to explain.
Let’s take a weekly payroll situation. Fine, the payroll is weekly, and in most years there are 52 pay periods. But, different employers with weekly payrolls will have the pay periods start/end on differnt days of the week. Some will have the pay period run Saturday to Friday, others will run from Monday to Sunday. There are seven possible start/end combinations here.
All (and I mean ALL) the anchor date is for is to tell NV2 payroll which of those seven start/end days that particular weekly payroll is based on. If your weekly payroll rund Sunday to Saturday then the anchor date would be ANY Saturday – you would enter it once, and never have to touch it again.
Now that that date is set, NV2 payroll can figure out the pay-period start and end dates for any pay period in any year. There will be no overlap and no gaps between pay-periods (which would alway’s be the result if the start and end dates were left to manual entry.)
Why do we care so much about the start and end dates?
Well, for Canadian employers, the Record of Employment is an important document that must be produced whenever an employee is terminated. On that report, the employer must report the earnings by pay-period – which has nothing to do with the check dates. So, NV2 payroll is kinda picky about the pay-period dates.
From the NV2 On-Line Manual, Payroll Payroll Terms and Definitions.NewViews Payroll calculates the begin and end dates of your pay periods based on a year and a pay period number. To do this, it must know the ending date of one of your pay periods, and from this date it can calculate the dates of any other pay period.
For example, you have a weekly payroll, and your pay periods run from Monday to Sunday each week. For the pay period end anchor date, you would enter the date of any Sunday, such as December 26, 2004.
Now that NewViews payroll knows you operate a weekly payroll, and your pay periods end on Sunday, it is able to calculate the begin and dates of any pay period in the past or future. For example, the 1st pay-period in 2005 would start on Monday December 27, 2004 and end on Sunday January 2, 2005.
NOTE: You only need to set the anchor date once. Once it has been set, all other pay period dates can be calculated based on this date
Now your questions:Q. When I set the Anchor date, I still had to manually enter the PP’s before I could run Payrun. In fact I had to enter All the PP’s for each Process listed.
A. The Payruns with no dates set were those imported from NV1 – and in NV1 there was *no* record of the pay period dates. Hense, after the import, those dates were blank.
Q. When setting the Anchor Date are you asking for the 1st PP date of just the PP date for than payrun
A. A stated above – *any* pay-period end date will do.
Q. Let’s say from nv1 there are 8 Rec Gen cheques for only 7 PP’s. How would you enter the PP dates for each? Can you use the same PP for two dates?
A. Pay-period dates don’t have anything to do with Rec Gen remittances. I really don’t know how to answer the rest of the question.
Bob Halpin
Gary,
1st, I’d suggest you start a new thread for this. Otherwise the post would probably be missed by most users here.
But really you should call customer support – whatever it is could probably be resolved a lot faster in “real time”.
Bob Halpin
The menu command Print -> Statements is available on the table of Accounts Receivable accounts. (Go to NewViews/Account/Accounts Receivable.) Anywhere on the blue accounts table, issue the command, or mark a block of accounts first.
Bob
Q. Is there a way to Append a printed report in the same fashion as was availabable in NV1?
A. No, but this is something that could be added. The only caveat is that a separate sheet would be required as the column layout of the appended report may be totally different from the 1st, so the results would be messy.
Q. Is it possible to specify which sheet on an existing file the report will be printed to?
A. No, but anything is possible down the road.
Q. I am trying to figure out a way to preserve all the formatting each time I send a report to a file.
A. The next build will include the option to specify a ‘template’ for printing reports (all tables, actually.) The template will (of course) not be able to control the column contents, but it will allow you to specify the fonts for the title rows, column titles, and the body of the report. And it will give you control over H/V centering and page margins.
1st, I’ll paste in an explanation from the qwpage web site
(www.qwpage.com -> NV2 For Windows -> Upgrade Pricing)
Q: I’m not clear on how many licenses I need.
A: The NV2 license permits a single user to access any number of databases (sets of books) on a single computer system at one time.
If more than one user wishes to access the same database at the same time, then multiple licenses are required. (e.g. If 3 different users wish to access the same database at the same time, 4 licenses (3 users + 1 server) will be required.).
If more than one user wishes to use NV2 at the same time, each running a different computer, then multiple licenses are required. (e.g. If 3 different users wish to access three different databases at the same time (in single user mode), 3 licenses will be required.)
I’ll state it again slightly differently.Basically, you require 1 licence for each machine you will run NV2 on. With that licence you can open any number of books (concurrently) located on any system you can ‘see’ in Windows explorer (ie: you local drives and any shared drives on a LAN.) With each licence you can also connect to any number of NV2 servers and open any number of books concurrently through those servers.
Books accessed through a server may be opened concurrently by other users as well.
It’s totally up to you.
However, the 1st example you give implies that you are running in single-user mode, ie: the user is directly opening the books on a shared drive on another computer – there is no NewViews server program in the mix. In this case the user would require access to the data.
To operate in multi-user mode your presumption is correct – the individual users do not require any direct access (rights) to the drive/folder the books are stored in. Only the server needs access to the files.
I hope that answers you question, but feel free to ask again if I simply confused things further.
Bob Halpin
Yes, it must be tough.
We really have no way of providing anything but full-blown versions.
The largest component of the installation by far is the on-line manual (which is under constant revision.) It’s just under 30 Mb, and unfortunately the bulk of that file’s contents are images that don’t compress very much.
The only thing I can add to provide some relief is the fact that the updates will become further apart.
Bob Halpin
