2005 USER CONFERENCES DRAWS ATTENDANCE FROM 10 STATES
"Very informative. Interaction with other producers and users was very helpful."
"A good job. It was a lot of fun. As a producer only, my take on the seminar was eye-opening."
"Best of the three conferences I've been at. Each year I have improved processes from info received."
"Good place to learn about utilizing FBS more fully and talking with people about situations similar to yours to improve your efficiency at home."
"Thanks for organizing this. I was able to gather some very useful tools which I am hopeful that I'll have time to put in place."
These are just a
few of the responses we've received following our 2005 Users Conference
in Moline, Illinois. Our thanks go out to all who expended the valuable
time and fuel to attend. A very special thanks goes out to Daryl
Ellis, Everett Chambers, John McNutt, Matt Mullenix, Dave Lepely , Ron
Swanson and Doug Schilling for their outstanding presentations.
FBS announced these exciting new products and services at the conference:
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Hosted
software licensing |
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Crop and
livestock software adapted to the JETT.ce handheld and conventional
Pocket PCs |
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Digital
paper (xPaper) Truck Log for recording grain harvesting and
transportation. |
For more information, contact sales@fbssystems.com.
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| Ag consultant
Ev Chambers (Left) explains how AgCompass hosts FBS software using
Terminal Server. |
Consultant
Daryl Ellis relays practical advice gleaned from his years as
CFO at Jorgensen Farms and training FBS clients. |
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| Setting sail
for a relaxing evening on the Mississippi. |
Accountant
Matt Mullenix explains how he develops custom reports for clients. |
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| Iowa producer
Ron Swanson presents a corn-soybean managerial accounting case
study. |
Cindy Cassidy
and Bernard Peterson suggest programming changes to FBS's Dan
Swinderman (left). |
NOTE:
We will share more highlights from the 2005 User Conference with
e.farmSMART
readers in coming issues. In the meantime, we invite you
to download and view some of these Powerpoint presentations made at
UC2005.
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OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS
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American
Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, October 6-8,
Austin, Texas. Booth # to be announced. Click on www.asfmra.org/fmeetings.htm
for details.
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25 YEARS AGO / 25% OFF TRIVIA QUIZ — SECOND CHANCE
Many of your "old timers" were probably on vacation last month, so we'll give everyone a second chance at very easy trivia question.
Software
prices have changed since we started business 25 years ago. Our first
product, Commercial Pork Package, originally sold for $250.00. Even though
there were a lot more pork producers then than now, few of them owned
a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I with a cassette tape drive to run the program.
Our first "big" seller didn't take off until floppy disks became widely
available in 1981. We'll award 25% off any FBS module to the first person
submitting the name of the program, what it did and its retail price.
Send your answers to norm@fbssystems.com. We'll
announce the correct answer and winner and introduce a new 25-year-trivia
question next month.
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SOFTWARE Q&A
– WITH Q'S FROM YOU, OUR CLIENTS!
Send
us your questions/problems–be they short, long, simple or downright
frustratin'!–about SeRVware
and we'll handle them right "on the air" for the benefit of all.
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This question
comes from a session of the FBS User Conference entitled "Things
You Never Knew That your Software Could Do" Did
you know that there are two ways to record A/P-A/R invoice
due dates? |
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In
the vendor setup (Setup | Accounting |Vendors), highlight
the vendor you want to set the invoice due date for and click
on the change button. |
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In the "days till due" window: |
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Put in a positive number due date is based on absolute days
from the invoice date. |
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Put in a negative number it if due date is always the same
day of the month. |
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For
example, if the invoice payment is always due 10 days following
the date of the invoice, enter "10" in the "days till due"
window. However, if all the invoices for a vendor are due
on the 10th of the month, enter " -10" in the "days till due"
window.
Accurate due dates are important when running the A/P Cash
Requirement report and A/P or A/R Aging reports.
You can find more tips for using the A/P or A/R modules
under Support Questions
on the FBS website. The questions are now categorized
by topic for easy reference. |
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Call in your questions (800.437.7638) or e-mail them
to support@fbssystems.com.
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