Cash Management - BusinessWorks California

Overview
The Sage BusinessWorks Cash Management module helps you to manage and monitor your company’s bank accounts. You can easily record, view, and reconcile your bank account transactions. Activities from other modules that affect cash are automatically recorded here, making your bookkeeping easier.

Quick Links
Data Entry	Screen Shots	Utilities	Integration
Forms	Transaction History	Inquiries	Features
Report Examples	Other Reports
Operational Flexibility
Multiple Cash Accounts	Maintain transaction information for up to nine (9) cash accounts.	Maintain History	Elect to keep history for up to 60 months.
Track Wasted Checks	When a check is wasted printing an alignment pattern, or when a new check number is entered, these checks will appear on the Check Register as voided checks.	Next Check Number	Maintain the next check number for each cash account.
Data Entry Features
Enter Bank Transactions	Use this function to enter information about bank deposits, charges, credits, withdrawals, or transfers and about deposits not recorded in Accounts Receivable.	Void Bank Transactions	Use this feature to reverse a deposit, charge, credit, or withdrawal previously recorded. Bank transfers can be voided with a single entry.
Reconcile Checking Account	Quickly perform reconciliation with an easy-to-read screen and check boxes to indicate cleared transactions.	Void Checks	To void a range of checks for a specified cash account, simply choose the cash account, enter the beginning and ending check number in the range, and select the void date.
Instant Checks	The instant check feature can be used when you do not need to record an invoice. You can easily issue a check to customers, vendors, or employees in this manner, or select Other to issue a check to a not-on-file payee.
Screen Shots
	Instant Checks Setup		Instant Checks
	Cash Balances Inquiry Window		Stub Remarks
	Void Checks By Cash Account		Enter Bank Transactions
	Void Bank Transactions		Reconcile Checking Account
	Reconciliation Summary		Reconcile Account Range Entry
	Maintain Cash Accounts
Useful Utilities
	No Utilities
Integration With Other Sage BusinessWorks Modules
The Cash Management module integrates with the Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Payroll, and Job Cost modules.
Forms
Check Stub	Elect to print Detailed Stub showing all invoices paid, a Summary Stub showing only the total amounts paid, or Single Stub in which detail is printed only if it can fit on to a single stub.	Check Form	Select from a standard form, or customize to your needs. Even add your company’s logo to the form.
Transaction History
Account History Drill Down	View Account History from within Cash Management entry screens. When you select an account that has transaction detail available, you can drill down to view the selected account’s transaction details and source documents.
Inquiries
Cash Balances	Get a quick view of the balances of each Cash Account with the touch of a button present on most data entry screens.
Rich Feature Set
Allocation Tables	Use the allocation tables you have established in Accounts Payable to automatically distribute an instant check amount based on the percentages held in the table.	Stub Remarks	Enter up to 2 lines, of 72 characters each of comments to print on the check stub.
Handchecks	Easy record a check after you’ve written it, such as when you use a blank check at an office supply store. You can apply the payment to invoice balances, close any invoices you have paid in full, and post the required transactions to the General Ledger module.	On The Fly Data Entry	You can create new Vendors on the fly during Instant Check entry.
Four Digit Year	Elect to print either a two digit or four digit year on your checks.
Reports
Sage BusinessWorks uses your data to produce a wide range of reports including graphical reports, presenting pertinent data in concise, easy-to-interpret formats to allow you to make better business decisions. Click images to view reports.
Reconciliation Report click to expand report selection	This report will include checks, bank transactions, and deposits entered in Cash Management, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Payroll. Use to help reconcile your bank statement.	Check Register click to expand report selection	The Check Register details all check information, including handchecks. Print this report after each batch of checks is printed.
Bank Transactions Report click to expand report selection	The Bank Transactions Report lists each transaction entered with the Enter Bank Transactions option and summarizes information on deposits recorded in Accounts Receivable. This report is useful tool to locate unrecorded bank transactions, errors, or differences.	Bank Deposits Report click to expand report selection	This report prints information about deposits recorded both within Cash Management and within the Accounts Receivable module.
G/L Distributions Report—Instant Checks click to expand report selection	This report lists the payee and the check number, check date, affected accounts and amounts for each instant check, sorted by cash account. A column each for debit and credit lets you see how the transactions affect your general ledger.	G/L Distributions Report—Bank Transactions click to expand report selection	This report shows the debit and credit postings of each bank transaction entered through Cash Management, sorted by cash account.
Other Reports
	No Other Reports