Management Reporter 2012–more info 1

First, the blog that tells all on what is currently public on Management Reporter 2012.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dynamicscpm/

Remember that I said there was more! My good friend and fellow MVP Mariano Gomez is trying to get the fine folks at Microsoft to let us wow you by letting us talk about ALL of the planned features instead of trickling them out one at a time.

This new release is big. It’s time to start making plans to convert to Management Reporter and say goodbye to our good friend FRx.

Leslie

Management Reporter 2012 Rocks!

 

It’s time to put FRx out to pasture and welcome Management Reporter with open arms!

Heretofore I have not been carrying the flag for Management Reporter, but I just saw some stuff today that blows the doors off of what it can do. Management Reporter has come of age!

I’ll be sharing more details as soon as I find out which ones I can share, but there are more features coming that have not been advertised. Stay tuned, Management Reporter 2012 is a must.

It’s so good that it would be worth it to go to Convergence just to learn about Management Reporter 2012. Since its targeted release date is date Q1 2012 – that puts it in prime time for Convergence.

More to come, but just know that so many things you wanted it to do it WILL!

Until next post!

Leslie

2012 Tax tables re-released!

Round 1 of the 2012 tax tables have been re-released to reflect the changes made by congress to extend the 2% tax holiday.  Make sure you have the new tables or you will be buying yourself a lot of heartache.

Get the new tax tables from PartnerSource: 2012 Tax Tables from PartnerSource

Until next post!

Leslie

Federal W-2 electronic file couldn’t be created

If you have ever been lucky enough to receive this error, it can be difficult to track down a solution. Fortunately, one solution is easy – an ‘additional information’ button would have been nice though.



In my world this error message is presented because the path indicated in the File Name field does not exist, or you do not have ‘write’ permission to it.



Some of the newer operating systems, like Windows 7, will not let you create files in what they deem to be ‘protected folders’. So what worked last year might not work this year.

Good luck with year-end!

Until next post!

Leslie

Beware the 2012 Tax Tables!

The first batch of 2012 tax tables issued by GP are WRONG.

DO NOT USE THEM!

The FICA withholding is set to 6.2% instead of 4.2%. I know how much fun we had last year with this problem, let's not do it again. GP will be issuing new tables this week - those should be correct.

If you have imported the 2012 tables, you can simply change the FICAS tax table to reflect the correct 4.2% rate.

Here's how to change the percentage:


Microsoft Dynamics GP > Setup > System > Payroll Tax

1. Tax Code = FICAS

2. Select the 'Filing Status' button

Payroll Tax Setup window

On next window:

3. Filing Status = NA

4. Select the 'Tables' button

Payroll Tax Setup window

Type in the new Tax Rate where indicated. You can also update the limit. In the window below, the FICA limit is 106,800. The limit goes up for the 2012 tax year to $110,100.

Payroll Tax Tables window

We are all rushing to the finish line this time of year - don't forget to have fun!  I hope this will help someone.

Until next post!

Leslie