Product Bulletin for Amicus Accounting 2010

May 2010

This document lists outstanding known issues in the current build of Amicus Accounting 2010. They are grouped together by topic. Within each section, issues are sorted by number, highest to lowest.

Table of Contents

Windows 7 and Vista

15181—At a computer running under Windows 7 or Vista, attempting to Restore a backup might cause an error.
WORKAROUND: Exit Amicus Accounting, right-click the Amicus Accounting icon on your Desktop and choose “Run as administrator”, log back in to Amicus Accounting, and Restore the backup.

N18—If you install Amicus Accounting in the Program Files folder under Windows 7 or Vista, it will not work properly.
WORKAROUND: In order to run under these versions of Windows, Amicus Accounting must be moved to another location, such as the default install location - [drive]:\AmicusAccounting.

Time

11074—You may post transactions dated prior to the Client Matter’s open date, and no warning is shown.

Expenses

22465 (patch available)—If you edit an unposted expense from the View Unposted Transactions tab in New Expense Entry, some text at the beginning of the description is truncated.
SOLUTION: A patch that resolves this issue is available from the Support > Updates and Downloads section of our website.

Trust

11080—If the current date is in the new fiscal year but the previous fiscal year is still open (because year-end processing has not yet been done), you may post trust receipts using the current date. Then, if you post trust transfer to pay A/R in the previous year, the balance of the trust will include these receipts.

Billing

22468 (patch available)—Reminder Statements consolidate the payments on each invoice rather than listing the payments separately.
SOLUTION: A patch that resolves this issue is available from the Support > Updates and Downloads section of our website.

22279 (patch available)—If payment of a bill is received one day after the bill is posted, the next bill shows an incorrect prior balance and balance owing.
SOLUTION: A patch that resolves this issue is available from the Support > Updates and Downloads section of our website.

13629—In the A/R Reminder Statements function, neither of the Detailed Statement options at the bottom of the dialog are selected by default, and the Statement that will be generated in that case is not useful.
WORKAROUND: Select one of the Detailed Statement options.

13615—If you split a bill between a task-based Client Matter and a non-task-based Client Matter, the bill created for the non-task-based Client Matter shows 0 as the total, and the A/R Expenses in the Client’s subledgers are not updated.

12117—Bills that were run with the “New Invoices For Each Client” option selected in the Bill Multiple Clients tab of the Create Bills function cannot be printed by the Reprint Bills function .
WORKAROUND: Using Microsoft Word, open and print the RTF format bills located in the \bills\RTF\<year><month> subfolder of the folder where Amicus Accounting is installed.

11554—If you select one of the Split Bill to Multiple Parties options in Client Matter Details, a billing run of multiple Client Matters will not include both the “parent” Client Matter and the “child” Client Matters to which its bills are to be split. Charges posted against the “child” Client Matters will not be included in the bill.
WORKAROUND: Run another bill for the “child” Client Matters.

11424—If there are multiple clients listed in the Draft Bills tab of the Create Bills dialog, and your cursor is on the last client, then when you switch to another tab and return to the Draft Bills tab, only that last client is shown in the list.
WORKAROUND: Scroll up in the list to see the other clients.

General Ledger

12966—From the Unprinted Audits function, only User No. 1 can print audits for other users. Other Users can only print their own audits from this function.

Accounts Payable

22436 (patch available)—In AP Invoice Entry, adjusted taxes or other amounts cannot be saved.
SOLUTION: A patch that resolves this issue is available from the Support > Updates and Downloads section of our website.

Month/Year End

22260 (patch available)—If receipts are entered in different months with the same reference number, they are combined in Bank Reconciliation.
SOLUTION: A patch that resolves this issue is available from the Support > Updates and Downloads section of our website.

Reports

22435 (patch available)—The Billable Time by Lawyer report shows only the first couple of lines of the description.
SOLUTION: A patch that resolves this issue is available from the Support > Updates and Downloads section of our website.

22434 (patch available)—The Billable Time by Lawyer report does not show time entries posted with a value of zero.
SOLUTION: A patch that resolves this issue is available from the Support > Updates and Downloads section of our website.

Maintenance

13702—Whenever an automatic backup is run from the prompt that appears at login, any backups more than 5 days old are automatically deleted.
WORKAROUND: If you wish to ensure that older backups are kept, periodically copy them to CD or another folder.

Miscellaneous

16391—At any computer other than the Amicus Server, Windows security prevents Accounting Help topics from displaying.
WORKAROUND: Copy AmicusAcc-UserHelp.chm from \AmicusAccounting on the Server to the Desktop on your computer, and then double-click that Desktop shortcut whenever you wish to use the Help.

Integration with Amicus Attorney

For issues related to integrating with your edition of Amicus Attorney, see the relevant “Known Issues in Amicus Attorney” document on our website.

 

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