ParishSOFT Accounting (PSA)

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• Integrations
  • BILL (Bill.com) Integration
• General End of Year Topics
  • PSA L&P - Last Fiscal Period: The fiscal year may not be closed for one entity at a time
  • PSA L&P - Last Fiscal Period: Does ParishSOFT Accounting offer a 13th Period?
  • PSA L&P - Last Fiscal Period: How to work in future accounting periods
  • PSA L&P - Entity: How to assign a Net Asset account to an entity
  • PSA L&P - Entity: The entity is not showing at Year End Processing
  • PSA L&P - Entity: Each entity must have a Net Asset Account associated with it before continuing (to close the year)

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• PSA Payroll - Electronic Filing
  • PSA Payroll - Electronic Filing and Tax Forms: (W-2/W-3 Processing) How to file W-2 and W-3 forms electronically
  • PSA Payroll - Electronic Filing and Tax Forms: (W-2/W-3 Processing) Parishsoft Accounting is not listed as an approved vendor for filing my State's W-2's
  • PSA Payroll - Electronic Filing and Tax Forms: (W-2/W-3 & 1099 Processing) How to submit corrections
  • PSA Payroll - Electronic Filing and Tax Forms: (W-2/W-3 Processing) W2s cannot be resubmitted through Nelco
  • PSA Payroll - Electronic Filing and Tax Forms: (W-2/W-3 Processing) How to check the status of your W2 electronic transmission
  • PSA Payroll - Electronic Filing: How to create and use a Nelco Account
• Accounts: Bank Accounts and GL Accounts
  • PSA Consolidation Manager - Options: How to allow or prevent organizations access to net asset accounts
• Bills
  • PSA L&P - Bills: Can I delete a bill after voiding a check
  • PSA L&P - Bills: How to get a subsidiary bank account to show on a bill
  • PSA L&P - Bills: How to clear a remaining balance on a partially paid bill
  • PSA L&P - Bills: How to pay your payroll tax bill
  • PSA L&P - Bills: How to record and apply vendor credit memos
  • PSA L&P - Bills: Pay Bills | How to fix a bill when the wrong bank account or A/P account was selected

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• General Ledger: Account Management
  • PSA L&P - Reports | Primary/Subsidiary Bank Accounts: How to resolve a difference between the bank account (which balances) and the bank reconciliation report (out of balance) when using primary/subsidiary bank accounts
  • PSA L&P - Accounts: How to change an account description, shortcut, entity, or any other segment
  • PSA L&P - Accounts: How to archive an account
  • PSA L&P - Accounts: How to use shortcuts
  • PSA L&P - Accounts: Why net asset accounts don't display when entering transactions
  • PSA L&P - Accounts: Should a diocese who prints consolidation reports allow a parish to change account descriptions?

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• Bank Accounts
  • PSA L&P - Primary/Subsidiary: How to change to a new primary account
  • PSA L&P - Bank Accounts: How to set up a savings account as a bank account
  • PSA L&P - Primary/Subsidiary: How to create a new Primary Bank Account
  • PSA L&P - Primary/Subsidiary: How to add a new subsidiary bank account
  • PSA L&P - Bank Accounts: How to add a new bank account or switch bank accounts
• PSA Church Manager
  • PSA Church Manager - Permissions: How to set permissions for a Church User Account
  • PSA Church Manager - Audit Trail: How to audit activity in ParishSOFT Accounting
  • PSA Church Manager - Password: How to reset a password
  • PSA Church Manager - Users: How to remove a user
  • PSA Church Manager - Users: How to add a user with the role/login type of church administrator
  • PSA Church Manager - Users: How to personalize your account username and/or how to reset your password

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• Payroll Setup (Initial Setup Steps)
  • PSA Payroll - Setup: (0) Prepare Your Files for Payroll Processing
  • PSA Payroll - Setup: (1) Enter Employer Information
  • PSA Payroll - Setup: (2) Set Up Pay Groups
  • PSA Payroll - Setup: (3) Enter Pay Items
  • PSA Payroll - Setup: (4.0) Manage Deductions and Benefits
  • PSA Payroll - Setup: (4.1) Deductions and Benefits (Video)

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• Payroll Process
  • PSAv Payroll - Payroll Process: Changes to employee not displaying on their timecard (Video)
  • PSAv Payroll - Error: Missing or Incorrect Gross Pay Account on Timecard (Video)
  • PSA Payroll - Import: How to import transactions and troubleshoot issues
  • PSA Payroll - Calculate Error: "The following employees have a zero time card and will result in a zero paycheck"
  • PSAv Payroll - Payroll Process: Timecard not displaying for an employee (Video)
  • PSA Payroll - Import: How to import payroll journals

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• Payroll Changes to Setup Records and Advanced Setup
  • PSA Payroll - Setup: How to determine if you need a Business eFile Number (BEN)
  • PSA Payroll - Checks: How to offset social security/medicare as part of an employee paycheck
  • PSA Payroll - Setup: How to correct the Federal Tax ID
  • PSA Payroll - Setup: How to deduct more than one local tax for an employee
  • PSA Payroll - Setup: How to set up, record, and report overtime pay
  • PSA Payroll - Setup: How to remove an account from the Account Distributions

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• PSA Payroll - Taxes & Personal Time
  • PSA Payroll - Taxes: How to determine my tax payment
  • PSA Payroll - Taxes: How to withhold a flat tax
  • PSA Payroll - Taxes: How to resolve incorrect tax withholding using the override or extra field options
  • PSA Payroll - Taxes: How to correct withholding due to changes in number of pay periods per year
  • PSA Payroll - EOY: Have the tax tables been updated?
  • PSA Payroll - Taxes: How to update your local tax

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• PSA Payroll - Forms
  • PSA Payroll - Forms: (941) Numbers are incorrect
  • PSA Payroll - Forms: (W-2/W-3 Processing) Comprehensive including electronic transmission
  • PSA Payroll - Forms: (W-2/W-3) Employee W-2 incorrect or not generating
  • PSA Payroll - Forms: (W-2/W-3 Processing) How to verify my numbers are correct
  • PSA Payroll - Forms: (W-2/W-3 Processing) How to print tax forms
  • PSA Payroll - Forms: (W-2/W-3 Processing) Error | No report data to render...There was an error while parsing the PDF file. The PDF is likely corrupt or invalid

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• PSA System
  • PSA System - Admin: How often does my data get backed up?
  • PSA System - Error: What does the message, 'Page refreshed due to back button or duplicate browser' mean? 
  • PSA System - Performance: Check Writing and/or Bill creation is very slow
  • PSA System - Hot Keys: How to maneuver from one field to the next
  • PSA System - Browser: Virus protection message
  • PSA System - Log in: ParishSOFT Accounting web address update (March 2018)

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• Deposits
  • PSA DMO Integration - Deposits: How to record deposits through Offering integration
  • PSA L&P - Deposits: How to change the bank account on a deposit that was inserted through ParishSOFT Offering integration
  • PSA DMO Integration - Deposits: What to do if a revenue account was mapped incorrectly
  • PSA DMO Integration - Deposits: What to do if the offering batch was mapped to the wrong bank account
  • PSA DMO Integration - Deposits: When will the DMO Offering deposit be posted in accounting and what will the deposit look like?
  • PSA DMO Integration - Deposits: If I get an error when closing my offering batch, will it still record my deposits in Accounting after I fix the error?

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• Bill Pay / Positive Pay
  • PSA L&P - Positive Pay: How to export a CSV (Comma-Separated Value) file that when opened will contain multiple columns
  • PSA L&P - Positive Pay: Getting an error when uploading positive pay file
  • PSA L&P - Bill Pay: How to search for and create "Bill Pay" Checks
  • PSA L&P - Bill Pay: How to set up Bill Pay
  • PSA L&P - Bill Pay: How to enable Bill Pay
  • PSA L&P - Positive Pay: How to recreate a Positive Pay file

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• Payroll Checks
  • PSA Payroll - Checks: How to void a check (paycheck)
  • PSA Payroll - Checks: How to correct a payroll check that was voided in error and then the voiding entry was reversed
  • PSA Payroll - Checks: How to look up a payroll check
  • PSA Payroll - Checks: How to include a short note to employees on pay stubs
  • PSA Payroll - Payroll Process: How to see checks in (steps 6 - 8) the payroll process
  • PSA Payroll - Checks: How to understand each screen in the Print Checks screen sequence

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• Vendor Tax Forms / Electronic Filing
  • PSA L&P - Vendor 1099: How to resolve missing or incorrect 1099 amounts
  • PSA L&P - Vendor 1099: Error | No Report Data to Render...Could not find file
  • PSA L&P - Vendor 1099: How to get a list of 1099 vendors and amounts
  • PSA L&P - Vendor 1099: How to update only the 1099 vendor name
  • PSA L&P - Vendor 1099: Error | No report data to render …Object reference not set to an instance of an object
  • PSA L&P - Vendor 1099: How to ensure 1099 amount prints in box 14 for an attorney

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• Journal Entries
  • PSA L&P - Imports: How to import a journal entry
  • PSA L&P - Beginning Balance: How to alter a beginning balance
  • PSA L&P - Journal Entries: How to record a withdrawal from a checking account
  • PSA L&P - Journal Entry: How to Record a Loan
  • PSA L&P - Journal Entry: How to look up a journal entry transaction
  • PSA L&P - Journal Entry: How to correct a transaction which is dated in a previous period

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• Budgets
  • PSA L&P - Budgets: How to choose which Budget Entry method to use
  • PSA L&P - Budgets: How to lock a budget and prevent changes from being made
  • PSA L&P - Budgets: How to create next year's budget using the screen entry option (used most often)
  • PSA L&P - Budgets: How to create next year's budget using the export/import method
  • PSA L&P - Budgets: Can changes be made to a budget?
  • PSA L&P - Budget: How do filters affect the 'Same as Current Year's Budget/Actual' outcomes

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• Payroll Direct Deposit / ACH
  • PSA Payroll - Direct Deposit: How to send an employee's net pay to more than one bank account
  • PSA Payroll - ACH: How to create a new ACH file after finding a mistake in the original
  • PSA Payroll - ACH: Server Error in '/' Application when generating ACH file or printing ACH receipt
  • PSA Payroll - ACH: How the ACH file gets to the bank
  • PSA Payroll - ACH: File error: "Input string not in current format"
  • PSA Payroll - Direct Deposit: How to print a paper check for a direct deposit (ACH) employee

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• Memorized Transactions
  • PSA L&P - Memorized Transactions: How to edit a memorized transaction
  • PSA L&P - Memorized Transactions: Why is the memorize option not available?
  • PSA L&P - Memorized: How to create, modify, use, and delete memorized transactions
  • PSA L&P - Memorized: Some memorized transactions are missing
  • PSA L&P - Memorized: How to view memorized transactions
• Payroll Reports
  • PSA Payroll - Reports: How to eliminate former employees from printing on reports
  • PSA Payroll - Reports: How to pay a 1099 vendor through payroll and track 1099 amounts
  • PSA Payroll - Reports or Forms: 941 does not match total for quarter
  • PSA Payroll - Reports: How to run a Payroll Summary Report
  • PSA Payroll - Paystubs: The local tax YTD amount doesn't show on paystubs when the Local tax is not calculated for that payroll process
  • PSA Payroll - Reports: How to see Hours worked

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• Checks and EFTs
  • PSA L&P - Checks: Gray Screen In Popup when printing Checks
  • PSA L&P - Checks: How to resolve inconsistent check printing
  • PSA L&P - Checks: I voided a check that was written in a future year (Accrual) now expenses are inflated
  • PSA L&P - Checks: How to void a check from a prior fiscal year
  • PSA L&P - Checks: How to print a zero dollar check
  • PSA L&P - Checks: How to remove the header and footer when printing checks

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• PSA: Help on Processes, Accounting Theory, and Reports
  • PSA User Guide - How to find the User Guide link on the Dashboard
  • PSA L&P - Reports: How to set up the Statement of Cash Flow
  • PSA Reports - Account Audit: Paid Bill in the Cash Account (pseudo checks)
  • PSA L&P - Reports: Budget reports
  • PSA L&P - Reports: The general ledger payables account does not agree with A/P Aging report
  • PSA Reports - Report Configuration: How ParishSOFT Accounting classifies net assets for the new reporting standards regarding unrestricted and restricted net assets

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• Credit Cards
  • PSA L&P - Credit Cards: How to set up and use credit cards
  • PSA L&P - Credit Cards: How to reconcile a credit card account
  • PSA L&P - Credit Cards: How to reverse a charge or enter a refund
  • PSA L&P - Credit Cards: How to reopen a credit card reconciliation
  • PSA L&P - Credit Cards: How to balance a credit card reconciliation when there is a fraudulent charge on the statement
  • PSA L&P - Credit Cards: How to use the Credit Cards module for pre-paid debit cards

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• Transactions
  • PSA L&P - Transaction Entry: Can a Net Asset account be used in transactions?
  • PSA L&P - Transactions: Can I change a deposit, journal entry or bill transaction numbers?
  • PSA L&P - Transaction Entry: Why are deposits and bills not totaling on the transaction entry screen?
  • PSA L&P - Transactions: How to find a deleted transaction
  • PSA L&P - Transaction Entry: What to do when the wrong transaction has been deleted
  • PSA L&P - Transaction Entry: How to stop the drop down date from covering part of the calendar

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• Payroll Deductions / Benefits
  • PSA Payroll - Ded/Ben: How to exclude selected deductions or benefits from a paycheck
  • PSA Payroll - Ded/Ben: How to refund a payroll deduction
  • PSA Payroll - Ded/Ben: How to add a pre-tax retirement deduction
  • PSA Payroll - Ded/Ben: How to add a pre-tax retirement benefit
  • PSA Payroll - Ded/Ben: How to add an after-tax vision insurance deduction
  • PSA Payroll - Ded/Ben: The software will not take a deduction

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• PSA: Getting Started
  • PSA Getting Started - Set Up: How to add, delete and edit Account Code Levels (dimension codes, sub-accounts, account segments)
  • PSA Getting Started - Users: How to add a new user and set up permissions
  • PSA Getting Started - Accounting Period: How to Update the Accounting Period when just getting started in PSA
  • PSA Getting Started - Setting Up Reports
  • PSA Getting Started - Transactions: Set Default Accounts
  • PSA Getting Started - Post Conversion Check List

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• Dashboard
  • PSA L&P - Permissions: How to prevent a user from seeing a bank balance
  • PSA L&P - Dashboard: How to see subsidiary bank balances since they do not show on the dashboard
• PSA FAQ - All Modules
  • PSA L&P - Budget: About Budget Entry (FAQ)
  • PSA L&P - Due To/From: About the Due-To/From Feature (FAQ)
  • PSA L&P - Reports: Memorized Reports (FAQ)
  • PSA Payroll - Reports or Forms: How to print the Quarterly 941 Report (FAQ)
  • PSA Church Manager - Audit Trail: Frequently Asked Questions ( FAQ's)
  • PSA FAQ - All Modules: Should ParishSOFT Accounting be opened more than once on the same computer?
• Imports
  • PSA L&P - Imports: How to tell the exact time Smart Tuition Posted to the General Ledger
• Payroll Employee Records
  • PSAv Payroll - Employee Personal Time: Personal Time Entry (Video)
  • PSA Payroll - Personal Time: How to set up and record Personal Time for employees
  • PSA Payroll - Employee: How to make an employee record inactive
  • PSA Payroll - Distributions: How to add multi-account distribution for pay data
  • PSA Payroll - Employee: How to delete an employee record
  • PSA Payroll - Employee: How to track hours for part time salaried employees

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• PSA: General System Issues and Questions
  • PSA General - What is the Scope of Technical Support? 
  • PSA General - Who can help me?
  • PSA General - Forms: ParishSOFT Checks & Forms company contact information
  • PSA General - Forms: Can we return unopened forms purchased from ParishSOFT Forms?
• Projects
  • PSA L&P - Projects: About Projects (FAQ)
  • PSA L&P - Projects: Do Projects print on reports?
  • PSA L&P - Projects: How to delete a project from a transaction
  • PSA L&P - Projects: How to add or change a project on a bill that has already been paid
  • PSA L&P - Projects: How to change the Project Group Name
  • PSA L&P - Projects: How to change the Project Name

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• PSA: Accounts Receivable (A/R)
  • PSA A/R - Invoice: How to enter distribution properly to ensure the correct accounts are credited when payment deposit is submitted
  • PSA A/R - Credit Memo: How to issue a credit when a customer is canceling their account
  • PSA A/R - Overpayment: How to apply an overpayment
  • PSA A/R - Credit Memos: How to remove a credit memo or the remaining balance
  • PSA A/R - Credit Memo: Created refund bill then deleted the bill causing credit to be unavailable yet still showing (technical issue)
  • PSA A/R - Payments: Entered payment for incorrect customer

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• Reconciliations: Bank Recs and Credit Card Recs
  • PSA L&P - Bank Reconciliation: Tips and Questions
  • PSA L&P - Bank Reconciliation: How to use the Account Balance Report to assist with bank or credit card reconciliation issues 
  • PSA L&P - Bank Reconciliation: How to find a transaction that debits and credits the bank account when using Primary/Subsidiary
  • PSA L&P - Bank Reconciliation: My Bank Reconciliation is out of balance
  • PSA L&P - Bank Reconciliation: How to record a bank mistake through a Journal Entry
  • PSA L&P - Bank Reconciliation: How voiding a pseudo check affects my bank reconciliation

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• PSA: Consolidation Manager or Software Integration
  • PSA Consolidation Manager - Dashboard: How to use the messages window
  • PSAv Consolidation Manager - Groups: Consolidation Manager Groups (Video)
  • PSA Software Integration - Smart Tuition: How to integrate ParishSOFT Accounting with Smart Tuition
  • PSA Consolidation Manager - Communication: How to update messages displayed in the Dashboard Messages window
  • PSA Software Integration - Database ID: PSFS and PSA Database ID
  • PSA Consolidation Manager - Accounts: How to add or change an account

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• Reports
  • PSA L&P - Reports: My Statement of Financial Position is out of balance
  • PSA L&P - Reports: Why is my vendor Audit Report Blank?
  • PSA L&P - Reports: How to interpret information on the bank reconciliation report
  • PSA L&P - Reports: How to print an Account Dimension Codes Report
  • PSA L&P - Reports: How to show monthly budget or actual amounts on the Monthly Budget/History Report
  • PSA L&P - Reports: How to to compare five different date ranges of income and/or expenses on one report

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• PSA: Purchase Orders
  • PSAv Purchase Orders - Processing: Receiving (Video)
  • PSAv Purchase Orders - Setup: Item Setup (Video)
  • PSAv Purchase Orders - Processing: Processing to a Bill (Video)
  • PSAv Purchase Orders - Setup: Sales Tax Setup (Video)
  • PSAv Purchase Orders - Setup: Shipping Address Setup (Video)
• Transaction Entry: Bills, Deposits, Journal Entries, and Memorized Transactions
  • PSA L&P - Bills: How to correct the distribution accounts on a paid bill
  • PSA L&P - Deposit: How to enter a deposit in a closed period
  • PSA L&P - Deposit: How to manage the error, "This record requires at least one item"
  • PSA L&P - Bills: How to troubleshoot a bill that will not submit but just disappears and the same bill number is showing
  • PSA L&P Transactions: How to attach a file to a transaction
  • PSA L&P - Bills: How to find or search for a bill

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• PSA: Fixed Assets
  • PSAv Fixed Assets - Asset Entry: Reports (video)
  • PSAv Fixed Assets - Setup: Asset Categories (video)
  • PSAv Fixed Assets - Setup: Reason for Disposal/Sale (video)
  • PSAv Fixed Assets - Asset Entry: General (video)
  • PSAv Fixed Assets - Asset Entry: Warranty Information (video)
  • PSAv Fixed Assets - Setup: Default Insurance Information (video)

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• Vendors
  • PSA L&P - Vendors: How to add and use a vendor account distribution
  • PSA L&P - Vendors: How to delete, inactivate, or reactivate a vendor
  • PSA L&P - Vendors: How to find an inactive vendor
  • PSA L&P - Vendors: How to merge vendor records
  • PSA L&P - Vendors: How to add a vendor discount term and assign it to a vendor
  • PSA L&P - Vendors: How does the 1099 Vendor Name get created and can it be edited?

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• PSA: Ledger Report Writer (LRW)
  • PSAv LRW - Training
  • PSA LRW - Rows: How to suppress detail but show subtotals
  • PSA LRW - Rows: How to subtotal and total rows
  • PSA LRW - Rows: How to add an Account Code Range
  • PSA LRW - Why can't I create new reports in Ledger Report Writer?
  • PSA LRW - Rows: How to add specific account rows (long account codes vs short-cut codes)

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• PSA: GAAP Compliance
  • PSA GAAP Compliance - Accounts: Dedicated accounts may not be used with the GAAP feature
  • PSA GAAP Compliance - Projects: How to set up Projects to keep track of balances for dedicated accounts
  • PSA GAAP Compliance - Basic setup
  • PSA GAAP Compliance - Reports: How to find which reports are specifically designed for GAAP reporting
  • PSA GAAP Compliance - Accounts: How to eliminate dedicated accounts
  • PSAv GAAP Compliance - Feature: Training Part 1 (Video)

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• PSA: Training Videos - Ledger & Payables
  • PSAv L&P - Primary Subsidiary Bank Account Feature (Video)
  • PSAv L&P - Hot Keys (Video)
  • PSAv L&P - Checks: How to Spoil (Video)
  • PSAv L&P - Transfer Funds from One Bank Account to Another (Video)
  • PSAv L&P - Credit Card Reconciliation (Video)
  • PSAv L&P - Create Transactions from Memorized (Video)

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