Archive for May, 2008

May is our Time to Celebrate – 26 Years & Still Going Strong!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY  to us!  Earlier in May we celebrated our 26 years in  business with a barbecue.  We’ve had an exciting year by expanding our Training Road Show programs to monthly visits in locations throughout the US.  Offering the customization services of our product to fit your accounting needs along with providing the training, support and maintenance if you [...]

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Published by Terri on May 23rd, 2008 tagged CMS News, Company | Comment now »

Voiding a Check in Accounts Payable

First remember that you only want to void a transaction in a module if it was created in the module. This is because Cougar Mountain will ensure the transaction is reversed in all other modules it is integrated with.
Here are detailed steps on voiding the check:

Go to AP (this is where the check was originally written [...]

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Published by Joe on May 9th, 2008 tagged Tips & Tricks | 2 Comments »

Cougar Mountain Integration

Wonderful news – Cougar Mountain Software stores its data in an ODBC compliant files!
So what, you might ask? What this means is that you can connect other programs to your Cougar Mountain data files and get the information directly from the source. Actually, this is not a new development, the software has always been ODBC [...]

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Published by Joe on May 6th, 2008 tagged Tips & Tricks | Comment now »

CMS User Guides Online

Did you know that you can access all of the Cougar Mountain User Guides on the Customer Service Center website? They are in PDF format, and can be saved or printed. We get this question asked alot, even though the documentation is also linked from our main company website. In the documentation area, you can get User Guides [...]

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Published by Joe on May 5th, 2008 tagged Marketing, Products, Training | Comment now »

Bank Transfers When Using Different Funds

Kevin was recently asked this FUND question, “How can I transfer money between Bank Accounts that have different FUND’s listed in the Bank Reconciliation module, so that the transaction will show up in GL correctly?”.  Here is how you set up for this situation:

Usually our nonprofit customers will have only one main FUND that is a General or Administration [...]

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Published by Kevin on May 1st, 2008 tagged Tips & Tricks, Training | Comment now »