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- Addendum to SBT Documentation
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- (c) Copyright 1990 by SBT Corporation, All Rights Reserved.
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- These instructions supplement and clarify the SBT program documentation.
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- In case of a conflict between the information in the manuals and this
- file, you should use the information in this file.
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- For easy reference, each subject's underlined title is displayed in the
- upper left-hand corner of the screen or page. The SBT programs affected
- are listed after the title.
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- NOTE: To print this file, type PRINTME <Enter> at the DOS prompt.
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- Communications Server Release Notes
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- * SBT Communications Server
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- See the SBT Communications Server Addendum dated July 1990 for
- important information on SBT Communications Server.
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- Change to 1990 W-2 Form
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- * SBT Payroll
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- Form W-2 has been redesigned for 1990. This change has the following
- effects on SBT Payroll:
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- * The program no longer offers the choice between printing
- standard and extended forms.
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- * The field "W-2 Box 17 Label" on the Employee History screen
- is now called "Box 17." Enter into it one of the following
- one-character codes:
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- A Uncollected FICA tax on tips
- B Cost of group-term life insurance in excess of $50,000
- C Sick pay not includable as income
- D 401(k) contributions
- E 403(b) contributions
- F 408(k)(6) contributions
- G 457 contributions
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- Payroll W-2 Change (continued)
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- H 501(c)(18)(D) contributions
- J 1.45% Medicare portion of FICA paid by employees
- K Excess "golden parachute" payments
- L Reimbursement for employee business expenses equal to
- government-specified rates for employees who were
- reimbursed using government-specified rates where the
- amount reimbursed exceeds amounts specified by these rates
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- Note that items C, J, K, and L cannot be tracked using SBT Payroll,
- and that the program prints neither the amount nor the code on the
- W-2. Amounts must be recorded outside of the program and typed manually
- on the W-2 form.
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- If any of your employees have values other than these codes in the
- Box 17 field, the program will alert you when you try to print W-2s.
- You can then print a list of these employees to use in correcting their
- records with the Employee File Maintenance option.
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- If this field is blank, and if any amount was deducted under a deduction
- with "K" in the Taxable field, the program prints "D" in box 17.
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- Compatibility with FoxPro
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- * SBT Accounts Receivable
- * SBT Accounts Payable
- * SBT Fixed Assets
- * SBT General Ledger
- * SBT Sales Orders
- * SBT Purchase Orders
- * SBT Payroll
- * SBT Corporate Contact Manager
- * SBT Communications Server
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- FoxPro Version 1.02 dated May 28, 1990 or later is now a supported
- environment for these programs. To run an SBT program under
- FoxPro, you should copy the file CONFIG.FP from the System/Setup Disk
- to the directory that contains FOXPRO.EXE or FOXPROLN.EXE.
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- Compatibility with dBASE IV
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- * All Programs
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- dBASE IV Version 1.0 is not an SBT-supported environment.
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- Compatibility with New Versions
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- * All programs
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- If you are installing a new SBT program, and you already have other
- SBT programs, be sure to copy the new system program files (SYS*.PRG
- or SYS*.FOX) over the system program files you already have.
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- If you only have one other module, or if the program files for all
- existing modules are in the same subdirectory, use the setup program
- to do this. Just type the location of the existing program files when
- you are asked where to put the new module's program files.
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- If your old program files are located in different subdirectories,
- you should first install the new module, then copy its system program
- files into each subdirectory where system program files are located.
- (You can use the utility program WHEREIS.COM, located in the same
- subdirectory as SYSDATA.DBF, to find all subdirectories that contain
- SYS*.PRG or SYS*.FOX.)
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- Change to Setup Program
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- * All programs (Installation Guide)
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- If you accept the default file locations, the setup program now arranges
- files as following:
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- System files C:\SBT
- Program files C:\SBT\xx ("xx" = two-letter program code)
- Sample data C:\SBT\PRAXIS
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- Exploding Bills of Materials During Sales Order Shipment
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- * SBT Sales Orders
- * SBT Manufacturing
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- If an SBT Manufacturing company is linked to a Sales Orders company
- which answered "Y" to the question "Explode Sales Orders During
- Shipment" on the Setup Information screen, the following field appears
- on the bill of materials maintenance screen:
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- Explode During Sales Order Shipments?
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- If the assembly is built to order, answer Y. The program will
- decrease the on-hand quantities of the component parts when the sales
- order is shipped.
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- If the assembly is built for stock, press N. The program will
- decrease the on-hand quantity of the finished assembly when the sales
- order is shipped.
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- Exploding Bills of Materials During Sales Order Shipment (continued)
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- Note that if you update Manufacturing from Sales Orders, work orders
- will be created for any unshipped sales orders -- even if they are
- for assemblies that are built to order. You should not approve,
- process, or complete work orders brought over from Sales Orders for
- items that are built to order. When the sales order has been
- completely shipped, the work order will disappear when you next
- update from Sales Orders.
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- If all your assemblies are built to order, you might choose not to
- update from Sales Orders at all. In this case, all bill of materials
- explosion takes place during sales order shipment, and Manufacturing
- is used only for bill of materials maintenance.
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- NOTE: In order to use this feature, you must copy the Manufacturing
- program files from SBT Sales Orders Disk A into the Manufacturing Program
- Drive/Directory. Don't forget to recompile Manufacturing after you copy
- the files.
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- Notes on Sales-Tax-Only Credit Memos
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- * SBT Accounts Receivable
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- - The program will only let you apply a sales-tax-only credit memo
- if it was created for the exact amount of the tax on the original
- invoice.
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- - After applying a sales-tax-only credit memo to a previous-period
- invoice, you should rerun the Sales Tax Report for that period.
- Any discrepancy can be adjusted the next time you file sales taxes.
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- Notes on Sales-Tax-Only Credit Memos (continued)
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- - A new option appears on the option grid for the Invoice Register:
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- Include Only (Active/Voided/Both/Tax credits)
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- Select T to see transactions created by sales-tax-only credit memos.
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- Reconciling the Business Status Report in Sales Orders
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- * SBT Sales Orders
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- The manual indicates that you can check the figure for Open Orders on
- the Business Status Report against the total for Open Orders on the
- Transaction Report, and the figure for PTD Shipments against the
- total on the Shipments Report.
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- However, the Business Status Report reflects sales tax, while the
- other reports do not. Consequently, the figures on the other reports
- differ from those on the Business Status Report by the amount of tax.
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- Using SBT Accounts Payable to Track Input VAT
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- * SBT Accounts Payable
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- To account for VAT paid on purchases, post the amount of that tax to
- the appropriate distribution account when entering the payables
- invoice. See the portion of Section 3.1 in the SBT Accounts Payables
- manual entitled "Control and Distribution Accounts" for details.
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- Printing a Single Statement for a Balance Forward Account
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- * SBT Accounts Receivable
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- You can't print an individual statement for a customer who has a
- balance-forward type account and a balance of zero -- even if there
- has been activity on that customer's account during the current
- period.
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- Instead, you should print batch statements for a range of customer
- numbers which includes that customer.
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- New Business Status Report Option
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- * SBT Accounts Payable
- * SBT Purchase Orders
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- To have the Business Status Report automatically updated with new
- information at intervals you specify, select "Timer" while viewing
- the report, then enter a number of seconds.
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- Compiling Payroll with Clipper
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- * SBT Payroll
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- If you are running Payroll under Clipper in a network environment
- with limited memory, you may want to investigate a third-party
- product called ALINK. Using this link pre-processor can result in
- significant memory savings. ALINK is published by Accfin Software
- (801/227-7100), 329 North State Street, Orem, Utah, 84057.
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- To enable you to use ALINK with Payroll, the \COMPILER subdirectory
- on one of the original disks contains two files (PRALNK87.BAT and
- PRALNK87.LNK) that can be used to link the object files created by
- Clipper. To use ALINK with Payroll, follow these instructions:
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- 1. Install Payroll. (See Ch. 2 or 3 of the SBT Installation Guide.)
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- 2. There is a procedure in SYSCLIP.PRG, p0memclr, which clears memory
- using ALINK's AL_FLUSH( ) function. The program is shipped with this
- function commented out. Remove the asterisk at the beginning of the
- following line:
- * AL_FLUSH()
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- Compiling Payroll with Clipper (continued)
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- 3. Rename SYSCLIP.PRG to SYSMULT.PRG. (Before compiling any other SBT
- module that shares this copy of SYSMULT.PRG, be sure to comment out
- procedure p0memclr again. Otherwise you'll see the error message
- "Fatal Error 51, Undefined External.")
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- 4. Install Clipper. (See Section 6.2 of the Installation Guide.)
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- 5. Install ALINK. (See the ALINK User's Guide.)
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- 6. To compile and link Payroll, type:
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- PRALNK87 <Enter>
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- Including SDI- and SUTA-Exempt Employees
- in the State Wage and Tax Report
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- * SBT Payroll
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- The State Wage and Tax Report does not include totals for employees
- who are exempt from SDI or SUTA. If there were SDI/SUTA taxes
- withheld before the employee became exempt, and you want those totals
- to appear on the report, you should switch that employee back to
- non-exempt before printing it.
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- Updating Payroll for 1990
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- * SBT Payroll Versions 6.15 and 6.30
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- The following program files have been updated since December, 1989 to
- reflect revised state tax laws. The effective date of all changes is
- January 1, 1990, except where noted.
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- 12/08/89 PRCATX.PRG California
- 12/12/89 PRCOTX.PRG Colorado
- 12/08/89 PRDCTX.PRG District of Columbia
- 12/08/89 PRHITX.PRG Hawaii
- 4/25/90 PRKYTX.PRG Kentucky * Effective date 5/1/90
- 12/08/89 PRMDTX.PRG Maryland
- 1/10/90 PRMETX.PRG Maine
- 12/12/89 PRMITX.PRG Michigan
- 1/26/90 PRMOTX.PRG Missouri
- 12/08/89 PRMTTX.PRG Montana
- 12/22/89 PRNDTX.PRG North Dakota
- 5/21/90 PRNETX.PRG Nebraska * Effective date 7/1/90
- 12/08/89 PRNMTX.PRG New Mexico
- 6/18/90 PROKTX.PRG Oklahoma
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- Updating Payroll for 1990 (continued)
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- 12/28/89 PRRITX.PRG Rhode Island
- 1/10/90 PRUTTX.PRG Utah
- 12/08/89 PRVATX.PRG Virginia
- 5/31/90 PRVTTX.PRG Vermont * Effective date 5/16/90
- 12/21/89 PRWATX.PRG Washington
- (Washington employee class revision made to
- Version 6.30 only. See program code for details.)
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- End of file README.TXT - (8/9/90)
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