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Installation and setup guide

You can use this step-by-step guide to install and customize
Accounting CS
 for your firm's needs.
These steps are the minimum steps required to getting started. As you explore your application and the Help and Support page, you'll find additional setup steps that you can complete to use optional features.
Do the following in order to install and set up
Accounting CS
:

Install
Accounting CS

Before beginning, your firm licensee or delegate needs to complete the administrative setup steps in Getting started with your new CS Professional Suite application.
  1. Install the application. You can find detailed instructions for the installation here.
  2. If you'll use the application to electronically file payroll tax forms, submit your EFIN application summary.
  3. Sign into
    Accounting CS
     for the 1st time with your Thomson Reuters Account then enter the following information:
    • Open Firm:
       FIRM
    • Staff ID:
       ADMIN
    • Password:
       (leave blank)

Set your firm information

  1. Enable firm security for your Accounting CS database. We recommend this so you and your staff sign in using your own unique credentials. You'll need to enable firm security in order to use Workpapers.
  2. Enter your basic firm information, including identification numbers, address and contact information, and additional contacts for your firm.
  3. Select your firm-level preferences, including your security preferences, data entry confirmation settings, and event tracking.
  4. Learn more about event tracking.

Add staff and assign permissions

  1. Set up security groups. We recommend that you create groups with permissions based on the roles or functions of each staff member.
  2. Create staff accounts. The ID you choose will be the staff ID that your staff will use to access
    Accounting CS
    . We recommend that you use something familiar, so it's easy to identify staff throughout the application.
  3. Assign staff to security groups to grant or deny access to various screens and features in
    Accounting CS
    .

Add clients

The following steps walk through basic client setup. You may need to set up client information in additional areas of the application.
  1. Select 1 of the following methods to add clients to
    Accounting CS
    :
    • Manual entry.
    • Client templates (requires that the templates are set up first).
    • Import basic client information from UltraTax CS (requires that your clients already exist in UltraTax CS).
    • Transfer setup information from an existing client record, using
      Transfer Client information
      .
  2. Enter basic client information, including identification numbers, address and contact information, and staff processor and reviewer assignments.
  3. Set up the chart of accounts. You can set up a client's chart of accounts to be as simple or as complex as necessary. Each account number can be between 3 and 60 characters in length, and use up to 20 segments.
  4. Add an engagement binder to add documents to on the
    Workpapers Dashboard
    .

Additional set up for
Accounting CS Payroll

Please note that there are extra set up steps required to process payroll information for clients.

This article applies to:

  • Product: Accounting CS, Workpapers CS
  • Subject: Install, Setup
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