Version 8.5.0.8 - February 10, 2012

Version 8.5.0.8 requires the purchase of the 2011 Update License. All future updates for 2012 will require Version 8.5.0.8 or later.

Each user should refresh their AccuBuild screen after an update is installed so that new menu options and reports (as applicable) may be visible. Instruct each user to follow these steps to refresh their screen. Open the AccuBuild program and open the company.  Click on the down-arrow on the main screen that is located under the X that is used to close the AccuBuild program.  Click Add or Remove Buttons; click Reset Toolbar.

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE

•ENHANCEMENT - Hand Written Checks

•Fixed an issue where the Escape Key was causing entries to be cancelled and the screen to close.

•The Hand Written Check screen has a new button to allow check information to be changed during the input process including the check number, the bank account, and the check date.  This will make it easier to fix these fields without having to cancel the entire check entry.

•The detail entry grid on the screen has been expanded to show additional fields to help identify breakdown records that are rejected during the posting process so that these entries can be corrected without cancelling the entire check.

•The invoice Payment Terms option has been updated with new codes that can be used to set a payment term based on the second, third or fourth month following the invoice date.

ACCUBUILD MOBILE

•NEW FEATURE - The Mobile Configuration Screen has a new button for quickly updating the 'open/closed' status of one or more Daily Reports for specific jobs.

DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT

•CORRECTION - The ADMS Folder Security was updated to fix security issues where job documents that were placed in a secured User Defined Folder where showing up on the main list of job documents and exposed to other users

GENERAL LEDGER

•ENHANCEMENT - Bank Reconciliation

•The transaction descriptions for Direct Deposit Payroll Checks with now show the letters "[DD]" as part of the check description in order to make it easier to identify direct deposit checks from printed checks when processing bank reconciliations.

•The bank reconciliation process will now allow for new checks and deposits to be added to a current bank reconciliation batch without needing to delete and re-create the batch in order to see the new entries.

JOB COST

•ENHANCEMENT - Job Estimate Import - Several new fields were added to the Job Estimate Import Screen to allow importing of Schedule Items from excel spreadsheets which include:

•Schedule Task ID

•Schedule Predecessor Task ID

•Schedule Parent Task ID (Indent)

•Schedule Duration (Days)

•Schedule Task Start Date

•Schedule Task End Date

(MAR) MY ACCUBUILD REPORTS

•CORRECTION - MAR Financials Statements – Changes were made to correct opening balances in a future fiscal year for income accounts.

•ENHANCEMENT - MAR Job Linking Reports

•The MAR Report Scripts were updated to handle both two and three tier linked jobs

•JCRep062.540 - List of Linked Contract Status Jobs has been updated to show the tier level of linked jobs

•JCREP2D.510 – NEW REPORT -  'Job Cost Capsheet Report – Linked Jobs'  which allows for pop up Master Job Entry to automatically group and select all related linked jobs with summarized totals for the Group included 2 and 3 tier linked jobs.

•JCRep06a.530 – Revised the Jobs in Progress Report to handle both Open and Closed Job Groups and to expand job drill downs for multi linked jobs at both the 2 and 3 tier levels.  A new link counter will now be displayed in the job heading when the WIP Job represents more than one job.

•NEW REPORTS -  Contract Status Spreadsheets

•JCREP61A.533 – Groups by Contract Jobs and Other Jobs

•JCREP61B.533 – Contract Jobs Only

•JCREP61C.533 – Other Jobs Only

•UPDATED - The Purchase Order Forms were updated to change the text fields to transparent so that they show up properly when exported to PDF:

•Order1po.101 – Purchase Order Form

•Order2sr.106 – Stock Request Form

•Order3sc.111 – Subcontract Form

•Order4so.116 – Stock Order Form

ORDERS

•ENHANCEMENT - The Stock Request has been modified to allow the user to change the Debit Account on the detail items for users who have multiple g/l accounts for materials to accommodate different departments.   Prior to this change the inventory part would automatically fill in the debit account based on the associated inventory category and could not be changed.

PAYROLL

•The following State withholding tax tables for 2012 have been added or updated in this release:

•Missouri

•Delaware

•Maryland – Queen Ann's County rate increased to 3.2%

•Massachusetts