Fall 2003 Kianoff Current Solutions Newsletter

networks used in many offices today. Think
of it like a cordless phone with its base
station, but in this case it is usually
connected to the Internet rather than the
phone system. Wireless connectivity can be
incorporated into your organization’s current
wired network easily and, assuming security
is properly set up and managed, can give
employees far greater flexibility and mobility.
With new technology comes new specs, and
in the world of wireless, the critical specs
are based on transmission types as
described in the chart below. The terms,
which you’ll see in hardware ads, denote
versions of the approved standards.
Wireless connectivity means mobility and
freedom to get more done easier. That
means the technology works better for you
and your organization.
Three Types of
Wireless Networks
Personal Wireless Network
Bluetooth works best within 50 feet of the
router with a plain line of sight (few or no
walls between the router and the wireless
device). The key to success is to have
light traffic usage and be able to secure
the wireless device (laptop, PDA, etc) as
a paired connection.
Home Wireless Network
“g” is the choice due to range and
security. With “g” you can set specific
access to only the devices you wish by
using a WEP (Wireless Equivalent Privacy
– which provides a bit-specific encryption)
or other wireless encryption method.
While “g” is the fastest, both “a” and “b”
provide adequate connectivity within 50 to
100 feet giving untethered access without
the cost or security of “g”.
Corporate Wireless Network
Because of the complexity and individual
needs of each organization, it is important
to coordinate with your hardware provider.
While “g” may be the best solution,
wireless connectivity to systems and to
the organization’s server(s) generally
requires tighter security set ups than
personal or home wireless systems.
Don’t bother looking for a connection, it’s
wireless. By the latest count, there are now an
estimated 28,000 such “hot spots” at airports,
hotels and coffee shops nationwide where just
turning on your laptop or palm pilot gives you
instant high speed connectivity. All without
wires!
Return your rental car to Hertz at any airport in
America and the attendant will wave a hand
held scanner across the vehicle identification
number, print out a receipt and send you on
your way. No waiting in lines. No counters.
Ah, the wonders of wireless.
Move next to Alabama to a warehouse just
north of Birmingham where a team of six
employees have fanned out, scanners at the
ready, to complete an annual inventory.
Moving around is easy because there are no
tangled webs of wires. In fact, no wires at all,
just the speed of light sending of signals to the
main server in the corner office.
The day of wireless is here and the potential
benefits are just starting to register. Some
examples:
• Conference room not sufficiently wired to
handle multiple computers for a quick
training session? No problem when there’s
a wireless hub. Everyone brings their laptop
with wireless cards (or desktops with a
wireless card) and the training begins.
• Office layout no longer meeting your needs
but overwhelmed by the thought of dropping
new lines and relocating outlets? Go ahead
and volunteer some folks to help you move
that desk. When your network is wireless, it
doesn’t matter how your desk is arranged.
Try It Unplugged
Wireless will change your definition of connectivity, coming soon to a business near you.
B
uy a Big Mac Combo at a McDonald’s in New York City and for just $3 more you can
get an hour on their high-speed Internet. But this pilot program has a catch: You
supply the computer. Turn on your laptop, tear open the ketchup and start checking
e-mail while you’re crunching on those still hot fries.
• Physicians frustrated because they can’t
access information on patients in the exam
or hospital room? Give them a tablet PC
and they can log into the wireless network
throughout the office or hospital. Data
communication gives them untethered
access to the system and eliminates
double entry of patient information.
This latest wave of wireless technology has
broad implications for the way companies will
conduct business in the future. In the present,
however, the biggest use of wireless is in the
home. The reach is the den, the bedroom or
the back porch and it can be done relatively
inexpensively. The industry leader, Linksys,
provides good home systems with the
wireless router (for transforming the Internet
signal to wireless) and wireless card for less
than $200. But the biggest customer is
industry.
The Technology
WiFi, short for Wireless Fidelity, is the
latest acronym added to the ever-
growing technology vocabulary. It is
the process to connect a computer,
PDA or data-enabled phone to other
computers, to the Internet or to a
wired network. The system operates
on a two-way radio signal, within a
specified bandwidth of 2.4 to 5 ghz. It
can produce speeds between 11 mbps
(Million Bits Per Second) and 54
mbps, which provides speeds
equivalent to basic wired Ethernet
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R
emember all the hype when
Windows 95 was released? It was
a revolution. Everything about
computers changed with that Microsoft
release back in 1995. The look, security,
connectivity, graphics and layouts –
absolutely everything looked and felt
completely different. But that was more
than 8 years ago. And at the speed
technology moves, that’s the Stone Age
for computers.
Okay, so you moved to Windows 98.
Now you are operating on a technology
from 5 years ago. So what’s the big deal?
If your car was a 1998 model it could still
get you where you want to go, right? But
what if the air conditioning goes out on
that car? Freon is no longer an
option. So how long can you get
by with that 1998 computer
system?
That’s the new reality of living in a
world powered by technology.
Windows 95 and 98 changed
everything, but by today’s
standards are no longer a safe
operating system. Its designer and
publisher, Microsoft, doesn’t
support it any more. Neither does
Microsoft Great Plains or Best
MAS 90 • MAS 200. That means
when you have trouble, support is a
challenge. In its place, Windows 2000
and XP are the systems of choice,
offering far better security, speed and
flexibility to connect programs together.
In short, more efficiency.
The problem, of course, is that trying to
plan and budget for keeping up with
technology can be expensive. Nobody
really knows what the next standard will
be. It was just 20 years ago that Bill
Gates – before there was a Microsoft –
said he could never see a need for more
than 64k (kilobytes) on a computer. Now
computers come standard with 80 gig
hard drives (that’s 640,000,000 kilobytes).
It always changes. But budgeting for
technology must be a part of that.
Sound depressing? It isn’t, if you factor
in features and benefits. Consider the
case of a healthcare company in
Alabama that recently found its old UNIX
proprietary system wasn’t going to meet
the new Federal HIPAA (Health Insurance
Portability Accountability Act) requirement
standards. In the process of upgrading
systems, the company installed a new
Shift Happens
A guide to being prepared for the technology that will fuel your business.
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Techno-Views
Windows 2003 server with Exchange for
email processing. Suddenly it had
unprecedented connectivity to its ten
locations. Now, when a patient goes to
another location, there’s no need to call
and transfer patient information. That’s
done electronically with a receipt order.
Patient satisfaction is way up. Employee
satisfaction also improved because they
now have greater access. Eventually, all
locations will be linked using a business
management system that will allow for
cost-tracking by individual location,
purchase order processing for supplies
and a reduction in administrative
paperwork. The investment was great but
so has been the payback.
Is it complicated? Hardly, because
there is a plan built around the need to
know what isn’t known today, i.e., what
the future of technology holds. That
healthcare provider is building around
technology that will be easily adaptable,
in this case Microsoft SQL for billing and
business management. They also are
preparing financially by determining what
costs will be associated with this change,
such as maintenance, hardware
requirements (replacing systems every
couple of years), and the general
operating requirements of a growing
organization including technical support,
repairs, training, upgrades and Internet
accessibility.
Sound unrealistic? Maybe, but it is
achievable, even for small organizations
that need to remain technologically
competitive. In today’s environment,
technology budgeting also means
process evaluation – how you do
something today needs to be reviewed in
the light of coming technology to identify
how you can streamline more or improve
efficiencies. As you look forward, here
are some basic questions to help fuel the
process:
• What is your risk from using
outdated technology? What would
be the impact on your company if
there was a breach in your systems?
What would happen if your
information were released to the
public? Are you prepared with an
emergency disaster plan?
• How much time are you currently
taking to prepare for outside audits?
Are you spending more time
preparing for the audit then actually
having the audit?
• What security issues need to be
addressed to safeguard your
organization’s information? Do you
have proper updated firewalls and
virus protection?
• How are you reviewing and planning
for upgrades to your operating
system, front office systems and
accounting systems?
When it’s time to invest in technology be
sure to maximize the investment by being
open to considering new ways to do old
jobs. The technology provides the ideal
opportunity to tackle that challenge.
on Technology Budgeting. Find it at
www.kianoff.com/library

“....and Champion The Success of Their Business.”
Associated Grocers Celebrates 10Years on MAS 90
Associated Grocers of the South is a wholesale grocery warehouse, selling to
grocery retailers throughout the Southeast U.S. The company started on MAS 90
more than 10 years ago and has expanded the system to include: AR, AP, Payroll,
GL, Report Master, Custom Office, Visual Integrator, FAS Fixed Assets, FRx, Direct
Deposit and some 3rd
party add-ons from Hightower and Macabe. They currently
have about 20 users. This Q & A is with
Staci Garner, Financial Analyst, part of the team that started with MAS 90 in 1992.
Q: What is one thing that
you really like about MAS 90,
or that it does really well for
you or Associated Grocers?
A: It is so simple and it is so
good. The integration between
the modules is what I like the most. To be
able to put everything into all the other
modules and it automatically goes to your
General Ledger. Everything is really
detailed, you know exactly where it came
from, you can drill down real well, there’s
no question when you get that entry in
there, about what it is.
Q: You were at
Associated Grocers
before there was a
MAS 90. Do you recall
a particular problem or
process your old
system didn’t do well
that now seems like
second nature?
A: That would be data
entry, the way you got
the information into the
system. MAS 90 will do
so much of that for you.
You enter your entries
and you know up front if
it is out of balance. The
ease with which you can
get your information in
there. And the
integration. We just
didn’t have that with the
old software.
Q: You and 2 others from your
company attended our last Customer
Group meeting. How have the
Customer Group meetings helped
strengthen your performance?
A: One thing it does, besides just the
software, is the opportunity to meet other
people at L. Kianoff and build a
relationship with them. When we do call
and talk, we have a visual of who we are
talking to and a little better relationship.
I also like the way you are bouncing ideas
off of other people who use the software.
You learn things that the system will do
that you didn’t know before. You know,
like adding customizations to your
screens, or tabs that you can use that are
created just for your specific business.
We’ve really learned from the customer
groups about customizing our system for
our needs.
Q: How has working
with the Publisher
(Best Software) or the
team at L. Kianoff
helped you get more
from your system.
A: Probably in terms of
getting more out of the
system, that would be
from the support from
L. Kianoff. You can call
and ask one question
and find a whole new
way of doing
something. You may be
thinking, “How can I
make it do this” and
you may find there is a
real simple way to do
that.
For example, right now we’re having
issues with our time clocks and we’re also
looking at adding the HR (Human
Resources) module. Talking with your
team we found out there were time clocks
that integrate with MAS 90. Well it never
occurred to us that we could get time
clocks that would automatically integrate
with our payroll system and how much
time that would save us. Just talking with
people you learn more about what your
options are.
Best Solutions
Release 4.0 of MAS 90 • MAS 200,
by Best Software, is scheduled to be
in customers hands after the first of
the year. There are some cool new
features that we know you will like
and that will improve your daily work.
Here’s a sample:
Grid Entry
As each module is released in 4.0,
the data entry screens will follow a
grid entry system. In this release, the
grid entry will be available in General
Ledger. Additional modules will get
this new look and feel with later
releases. No more reaching for the
mouse, no tabbing from here to there
– a tap of the <Enter> key moves you
anywhere you want to go.
Expanded GL Numbers
The new General Ledger Account
Number will support up to 32
characters and a maximum of 10
segments.
Comments In History
With 4.0 you will be able to print your
journals exactly as they originally
appeared, complete with all detailed
comments.
Right Mouse Click
A right-mouse click now will bring you
pertinent information such as:
Company Code and Company Name,
User Code and Name, Module Date,
Number of Records In Masterfile in
addition to showing Related Tasks,
which will enable you to move
through the system more efficiently.
on Release 4.0. Find it at
www.kianoff.com/4
Release
4.0
a continuing series asking clients
if we are meeting our mission
“To Create A Partnership With
Our Clients To Strengthen The
PerformanceAnd Champion
The Success Of Their Business”
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Associated Grocers
of the South

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Q: You went live on your Microsoft
Great Plains system January 1, 2003.
What stands out as something that has
really helped you or AOA?
A Electronic reconciliation and using the
allocation accounts. Both are huge time
savers. We used to have to allocate all
expenses between 4 doctors by hand.
Now the system does it. That saves us
10-12 hours a month. And with electronic
reconciliation, I download the file and it
does it itself. That saves us 3-4 hours a
month. I can’t wait to do 1099’s. We used
to have to do those manually and now
we’ll be able to print them right off the
system.
Q: It’s hasn’t been
that long since you
were on the old
system. Is there
anything the new
system does that you
now think you
couldn’t do without?
A: Being able to get the
reports I need. Under
the old system, I had to
deal with what it had.
Now I can do anything
in FRx that I want. And I
do. I’ve come up with
different management
reports, like looking at
overhead percentages,
salary percentages,
some of the
benchmarks for health
care. I’ve created
income statements by doctor, for things
such as the Optical shop, both in
summary and detail. The other thing is
that the system is intuitive which makes it
easy to use. I will admit that Smart Lists,
where you can go and do the reports you
need – I love it. I play with those all the
time. I create different reports when I
need them, like at month end. We’re a
cash basis. I do deposit reports, check
reports, voids. With payroll, I can quickly
do reports when I am trying to determine
who has a birthday for the month or
anniversary dates. You just click it out
real quick.
Great Solutions
Q: You have direct deposit. How has
that been working out for your
employees.
A: We did not have that before with our
old system and couldn’t have it, because
we would have had to key it into our
system and then key it into the bank
system. Now it is so quick. Everyone is
on it. They love it. They
don’t have to go to
bank at lunch. The
money just goes in
there. It is wonderful.
Q: How has working
with the Publisher
(Microsoft Great
Plains) or the team at
L. Kianoff helped you
get more from your
system.
A: We really have not
had any problems. Our
transition was very
easy, very straight
forward, really no
bumps in the road. We
haven’t dealt at all with
Great Plains, just the
consultants at
L. Kianoff. (Senior
Consultant) Dennis
(Day) has been
phenomenal in showing us all the
different things we could do, how to use
electronic reconcile and Smart Lists. You
just hit Excel and it throws it into a
spreadsheet. And of course, you can
export a file to a spreadsheet which is
great. They’re cool. I had none of those
capabilities before in our sad little UNIX
system. And then (Senior Consultant)
Michael (Davis) and his FRx class. It has
allowed me to quit making all these
spreadsheets. I can just do all these
FRx Reports.
Need to set up multiple purchase
accounts to a vendor?
Vendor Maintenance
Multiple Purchases accounts can be
specified to default to Payables
Transactions for each vendor. For
example, if posting to a select few
expense accounts every time a Payables
Invoice is posted for a particular vendor,
complete the following:
1. Cards | Purchasing | Vendor |
Accounts.
2. Enter an account on the Purchases
line for the default amount to be
allocated to this account. Leave this
account blank to manually select
which account to allocate the
expense.
3. Select the ellipse icon (three dots) on
the far right of the Purchases line in
the Vendor Account Maintenance
window.
4. Specify which additional accounts
need to default on the transaction. Be
sure to mark the “default on
transaction” checkbox.
5. Save changes
Posting Transactions
Posting transactions without a batch will
NOT post through the General Ledger,
regardless of the setting in the Posting
Setup. This means transactions posted
from within any transaction entry window
will not update the General Ledger when
posted. The users will need to then post
the batch created in the Financial series
to update General Ledger. Users may
restrict posting from any series and
origin to not allow transaction level
posting, which when specified in the
posting settings will ensure all
transactions will be posted through the
General Ledger. These settings are
found in the Posting Settings window:
Setup | Posting | Posting.
“....and Champion The Success of Their Business.”
AOA Can See Clearly Now!
It has been less than a year since Alabama Ophthalmology Associates made the
move to Microsoft Great Plains. The Birmingham-based medical practice, now with
5 physicians, focuses on the many subspecialties of ophthalmology, from pediatric
to refractive and glaucoma to oncology. It has a 2 user system that includes GL
with FRx, Payables, Bank Reconciliation, Electronic Reconcile, Payroll, Payroll
Direct Deposit and Integration Manager Financials. This Q & A is with
Brooke Williams, Administrator.
tips & tricks
on Tips & Tricks. Find it at
www.kianoff.com
a continuing series asking clients
if we are meeting our mission
“To Create A Partnership With
Our Clients To Strengthen The
PerformanceAnd Champion
The Success Of Their Business”
Mission Statement
L. Kianoff & Associates, Inc.
QA&
Alabama
Ophthalmology
Associates

Anita Sanders
ABRA Consultant • MAS 90 MAS 200
MAS 90 • MAS 200 Certified
Core Applications
Technical Support
Best Abra Human Resources
By Anita Sanders, ABRA HR Consultant
It should come as no surprise that the
largest employer in the country is the
government. That’s thousands of
people making laws and millions more
writing the regulations and enforcing
them. And who is often the target of
those laws and regulations? If you’re
an employer, that would be you.
It’s not enough as an employer that
you have to deal with hiring,
managing, paying salaries, benefits
and providing the tools your
employees need to do their job. Uncle
Sam and state and local governments
– and many agencies and
organizations too - now mandate that
you keep up with regulations,
reporting, and certain
certifications. There
can be fines, or
worse, if you aren’t
complying with:
"The Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act (HIPAA),
which requires organizations to
provide a Certificate of Coverage
for Employees.
"The Occupational Safety Health
Administration (OSHA), which
requires all organizations over
11 employees to provide
periodic reporting.
"The Family Medical Leave Act
(FMLA), which requires companies
over 50 employees to provide
record keeping of dates and
desposition of each related event.
It Ain’t Easy Being An Employer
There are a lot of hands reaching for your information;
an HR Module can help you provide it.
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"The Fair Labor Standards Act
(FLSA), which requires all
organizations over 500 employees
to report detailed employment and
earning records for a period of
three years.
"And Dozens more!
That’s in addition to already having to
keep up with memberships,
accreditations, continuing education
programs and the laptops, cell phones
or other “tools” that you need to track
as they are assigned to employees.
What’s an employer to do?
Comply. But as is
the case with your
accounting and
bookkeeping, take
advantage of the
technology to help
you manage it.
Consider how
adding on an
Human Resource
(HR) module, that integrates with your
existing system, can ease the burden.
A system such as Best’s ABRA HR, or
Microsoft Great Plains HR module,
can automate the processes and link
easily back to your accounting system
to eliminate double
entry and keying
errors. These
integrated solutions
can provide:
" Reporting, including EEO, I-9s,
OSHA, HIPPA, COBRA, state new
hire reports and much more
" Tracking employee benefits
elections
" Tracking by employee training,
certifications, health profiles, or
scheduling of drug testing or exams
" Drill downs for quick evaluations of
data
" Tracking equipment such as cell
phones, lap tops, company cars
etc. provided for employees
" Analysis on turnover, performance
issues and salary
" Event reminders to help keep
current on licenses, bonuses,
memberships, certifications and
more, as well as alert you when it is
approaching time to recertify.
" Employee access to empower
people to update information and
track information they need,
complete with audit trails to better
track who made changes.
" Advanced security for protecting
data and complying with regulations
and requirements.
The HR modules become real time
savers with a strong Return on
Investment when you begin to
approach 100 employees. The more
employees you have beyond that, the
more valuable the module becomes. If
your organization is nearing or
exceeding 100 employees you should
strongly consider the features and
benefits that an integrated HR solution
can mean for your business.
After all, when it comes to doing battle
with the government, you need all the
help you can get!
on HR Solutions. Find it at
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Word. Excel. Outlook. Today we
wonder how we ever got by without
them. With the upcoming release of
Office 2003, you may wonder how you
were ever productive on the version
you’re using now.
Now in beta testing, the Office 2003 is
promising to dish up new features that
Microsoft insists will be worth the
upgrade. (For more information on
why upgrades are important, see:
Summer 2003 edition of Current
Solutions: Upgrades).
As with all new
releases there is a
new interface giving
Office 2003 more of
an XP look. It is
bubblier, but beyond
the façade are
changes which will
help to improve
efficiencies in your
organization. All
Office products now include Smart
Tags (which provide context-sensitive
links and automated tasks), tight
integration between programs allowing
information to freely pass from one to
another, and an Information Rights
Management feature which
determines a level of access to
documents created.
Big Improvements?
The most exciting
improvement for
Microsoft Great Plains
and Best MAS 90 •
MAS 200 users is the
interface with Excel.
Now you are directly
connected to Excel for easier analysis
and reporting using built-in data
sources. An intuitive Excel wizard
makes it easy to pull in just the data
you want. Relationships between
related information are maintained,
helping ensure that data is relevant to
your needs.
The Old Reliables Just Got Better
The next generation of Office has some new ideas that will help you work better.
Looking Into The Future
The biggest improvement from a day to
day efficiency standpoint is found in
Microsoft Outlook which has
dramatically improved SPAM filtering.
Using a new method of determining
SPAM, Outlook now traces the source
email file to
determine if it
follows a SPAM
pattern. Once
Outlook
determines the
email is SPAM,
the system
moves the file
to the Junk
Email folder for
deletion. There
are also several additional features
such as schedule sharing and a better
sorting and organizing format for
information.
If you are into design, both Publisher
and FrontPage have bulked up with
features that seem to point to a more
aggressive push against industry
leaders Adobe and Macromedia.
Publisher allows you to automate web-
design, create
catalogs from text
and photos in Excel
spreadsheets.
FrontPage
incorporates
functions of
Dreamweaver such
as the ability to
clean up HTML code, easier database
access and conditional formatting that
can hide page items depending on the
values in the data displayed.
If you are planning on moving up to
Office 2003 you will need Windows XP
or Windows 2000 SP3. The system
will not even load on Windows 95,
98 or Me (See story on page 2)
which are no longer supported by
Microsoft. Is it worth the expense to
your organization to upgrade? How
efficient do you want to be?
The Basics of
Office 2003
Basically, Office 2003 has all the old
favorites, but has added some new
functionality. Below is a basic outline of
the new Office 2003.
Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003
Email. Outlook 2003 provides a
unified place to manage e-mail,
calendars, contacts, and other
personal information.
Microsoft Office Word 2003
Word Processor. In response to
customer feedback, Word 2003 offers
new features to make documents
easier to create, share, and read.
Microsoft Office Excel 2003
Spreadsheet Program. Excel 2003,
includes support for XML making it
easier to analyze and share
information and enhancements to
statistical functions allow you to better
analyze information.
Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2003
Presentation Program. With
improvements to the user interface
and support for Smart tags, it is easier
to view and create presentations.
Microsoft Office Access 2003
Database Management. Offering an
improved ease of use and an
expanded ability to import, export, and
work with XML data files.
Microsoft Office FrontPage® 2003
Website Program. Allows you to
create and manage websites, delivers
powerful features and controls to help
you design better Web sites, generate
code faster, and extend your Web
capabilities by incorporating XML and
connecting to external data sources.
Microsoft Office Publisher 2003
Desktop Publishing. Makes it easier
to create, design, and publish
professional marketing and
communication materials.
Update
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