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CCH Accounts Production Corporate: Comprehensive (10134644/10134649)

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    Overview

    A comprehensive onboarding programme for new users with little or no prior experience of accounts production software. This service covers accounts production for corporate entities, guiding users through CCH Central and CCH Accounts Production software. This will include best practice for set-up, within CCH Central and CCH Accounts Production, together with the fundamentals and advanced features of the software. Participants will gain confidence in producing accounts using CCH Accounts Production. 

    Pre-requisites

    • A good understanding of your processes and policies in respect of the production of your statutory accounts.
    • Access to CCH Central (On premise or Hosted) and MS Excel
    • Access to data to be brought into CCH Central / CCH Accounts production 

    Who is this course designed for?

    • New users of CCH Central / CCH Accounts Production / CCH iXBRL Review and Tag software 

    Objectives

    • To ensure a smooth transition from your current system(s) to CCH Central / Accounts Production / iXBRL
    • To provide you with enough knowledge to be able to make decisions regarding the setup of the software and options within it
    • Understanding how the CCH Central database works with regards to linking clients, contacts and associated records to CCH Accounts Production
    • Review, upload and fine tune mappings from external data
    • Reconciliation of financial statements 
    • Understanding CCH Accounts Production formula and the impact on the financial statements
    • Understanding the options for iXBRL tagging of accounts for the HMRC copy and Companies House filing 

    Course Duration: This service will require 6 sessions to complete, each lasting up to 3 hours. If delivered on site 2 sessions will be delviered each day across 3 days.  

    Course Contents

    Across these 6 sessions you will cover the topics below: 

    CCH Central setup and checks 

    • Configuration and database name
    • Access and licencing, including credentials for online filing
    • Overview of your business structure, entities, and current production of financial statements
    • Overview of your current team, responsibilities, procedures and controls
    • Setting up users and applying security groups and permissions
    • The process of importing / creating clients and contacts, client and data security
    • Adding / maintaining addresses
    • Homepages 

    CCH Accounts Production Setup – Master level 

    • Overview of CCH Accounts Production, including nominal coding structures and ranges for entities in use
    • Creation of mapping file(s) (your consultant will have provided you with a template to complete prior to this service, however, if not completed it will be done at this stage).
    • Review mapping file(s) created from your general ledger to CCH Accounts Production for entities in use
    • Upload mapping files
    • Review /discuss master settings, including:
    • Auto publish
    • Chart nominals
    • Compliance terminology
    • Entities in use
    • Concept of master pack creation and publication
    • Global change /maintenance processes for formats, paragraphs, compliance terms and word items
    • Bringing images (logos) into the accounts
    • Addition of senior statutory auditor
    • Themes / job themes
    • Defaults for country of incorporation, accountancy body (of auditors)
    • Defaults for relationship address mapping 

    CCH Accounts Production Setup – Client level 

    • Creation and maintenance of accounting periods
    • Linking addresses and associations / officers 

    Test mapping and review imported data for the initial chosen entity 

    • Reconciliation of imported data, including:
    • Requirement for additional nominal codes, client / master
    • Changes required to mapping, client / master
    • Rounding settings
    • Reclassifications of summarised imported figures e.g. tangible asset movements 

    Functionality / options 

    • Use of Statutory database for entity specific settings and accounts disclosures (comprehensive options) and customisation of paragraphs
    • Use of Financial Statements for previewing financial statements, drill down, navigation and lookup options
    • Use of exception report for certain checks and data entry
    • Advisor journals for adjustments
    • Journals: restatement for Prior year adjustments plus statutory database options 

    Overall review to identify potential structural changes to pages / note (formats) 

    The actual changes will depend upon the complexity; we aim to enable you to make changes and maintain the formats going forward. 

    • Impact of making such changes client / master
    • Understanding construction/operation of formats e.g. 
    • Control page, tabs within a format
    • Print areas / print conditions 
    • Further options when Draft activated
    • iXBRL tags
    • Styles
    • Maintenance required when such changes are introduced - client / master
    • Review required when software updated to incorporate changes in a future release
    • Using the master pack difference analyser 

    Reports in addition to financial statements 

    • Trial balance
    • Nominal ledger
    • Transactions
    • Homepage options 

    Options for running the year-end 

    • Finalising the accounting period
    • Running the year-end 

    Launching CCH iXBRL Review and Tag (R&T) 

    • Launch from within Accounts Production / Central
    • Overview of options and reports available within R&T
    • R&T checks, clearing errors, if any
    • Filing with companies House, Companies House filing reports 

    Consultancy Outcomes

    After each session your Accounts Production consultant will provide you with meeting notes, and detail any tasks that are required to be complete ahead of the next sessions, the scheduling of these sessions will be done to ensure adequate time is planned for completion of these tasks.

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