PSU International

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PSU International

• Training Courses

JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2006
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Course Calendar
Tuesday 17.01.06 Accounts Payable - LOGIS 10am
to 2pm Thursday 19.01.06 Payroll Processing -
LOGIS 9am to 430pm Tuesday 24.01.06 Cashier
Course - LOGIS 10am to 2pm Tuesday 31.01.06
Rates Overview -PGOLD 9am to
430pm Thursday 02.02.06 Pensioner/Senior
Maintenance - PGOLD 10am to 2pm Tuesday 07.02.06
Installments - PGOLD 10am to
2pm Thursday 09.02.06 Accounts Receivable - LOGIS
- 10am to 2pm Tuesday 14.02.06 Interim Rating
Valuation Rec - PGOLD 10am to
2pm Wednesday 22.02.06 Payroll Leave LOGIS
10am to 2pm Thursday 23.02.06 Payroll Advanced
LOGIS 9am to 430pm
Please let us know if a course date does not suit
you, or if a course you would like to attend is
not scheduled, so that we can reschedule the
course for another day or offer a course to suit
your individual needs.
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Course Information

• To enrol in a course simply email details of your
  order, the course, date and person attending to
  support_at_stenning.com.au
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• Full day courses cost 600.00 (plus GST). Lunch,
  morning tea and afternoon tea are provided.
  Course times are 900am until completion,
  generally 4.30pm.
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• Half day courses cost 450.00 (plus GST) and
  commence at 1000am for morning courses or 2.00pm
  for afternoon courses unless otherwise stated.
• Morning or afternoon tea will be provided.
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• Cancellation will be charged at 50 of the cost
  of the course, unless 1 weeks notice is given.
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• Each course needs at least 4 attendees and is
  limited to a maximum of 6.
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Map Address

• Ground Floor, 65 Hay Street, Subiaco. (Almost
  Opposite PMH)
• All day parking, at a cost of 7.50 per car, is
  available adjacent to Mueller Park on the corner
  of Hamilton Street and Roberts Road.

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Interim Rating and Valuation Reconciliations Thi
s new half day course will cover all aspects of
interim rating and valuation reconciliations. It
will be based on the PGOLD release 1_03 and will
cover the new facilities of overriding the
adjustment amount calculated on interim charges.
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• Cashier Course
• Whether your main task is to enter receipt
  details, occasionally relieve the cashier or
  administer Rates you will find this course very
  interesting. This half day course extensively
  covers all aspect of receipting. Included in
  this course is
• Standard code settings
• Hands on examples of receipt input, ranging from
  rating to animal registrations.
• Extensive explanation of allocation rules used
  for rating.
• Bank download of payments.
• Cancelling receipts or batches.
• Realloaction of receipts.
• Reporting and display functions.
• If you find you are spending a lot of time
  unallocating and reallocating rating receipts, or
  manually giving rebates or discounts, this half
  day course will save you many hours.

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• GST Training
• This half day course was offered when GST was
  first introduced. We
• are now running this course again as some
  organisations are having
• difficulty reconciling their GST for BAS. This
  course will cover how
• details need to be entered so that the reporting
  programs can correctly
• identify GST and hence make the reporting of GST
  so much easier for
• the compilation of the Business Activity
  Statement.

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• Accounts Payable
• What could be involved in paying an account?
  After all you just enter the invoice and issue a
  cheque. Come to this half day course and be
  surprised by the features available that you are
  not using. This course will show you how to
• Control Payments with the use of Bulk Payee
  Codes, Creditor Classifications, Auto Issue Codes
  etc
• From start to finish how to enter a purchase
  order, goods inwards docket, suppliers invoice.
• Contracts
• Recurring Payment Invoices for contractors
• How to issue cheques or generate EFT payments
• Reconciling your Banks

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• Accounts Receivable
• This half day course is designed for people who
  have to control the recovery of your debts. The
  time taken to control revenue from sundry debtors
  can be considerably reduced by attending this
  half day course. Topics covered will include
• Debtor codes and what they are used for.
• Invoices and credit notes.
• Control of recurring invoices, for such items as
  hall hire, rent, etc
• Printing Invoices
• Producing Statements
• Direct debit requests and receipting.
• General receipting
• Writing off small balances
• Retiring deposits and reconciling bank accounts.

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• Rates in PGOLD
• This revamped Rates Course is designed for all
  levels of users and shows you how to use the new
  Browser based software. It covers the creating of
  new properties and goes into detail on how to
  raise interim charges. Specific functions such as
  controlling of pensioner/senior rebates and
  installment payments are now covered in this
  course along with the raising of and reporting on
  the new FESA levy.
• In summary this Full Day Rates Course covers
• Enquiries and reporting functions
• Property maintenance, including change of
  ownerships
• Rate modelling
• Main rate run and notice production
• Interim charges
• Revaluations via download from Valuers General
  Office
• Receipting
• Installments
• Discounts
• Penalties
• Pensioner and Senior details
• Reconciliations
• End of year check list

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• Installments
• This half day course will show how to effectively
  control installment plans.
• Three different installment systems that can
  operate in conjunction with each other. Find out
  more details on how to control
• Standard Installments as per your legislation
  requirements
• Ad-hoc Installments
• Pensioner Arrears Arrangements
• Learn how to
• Reset installments for the new rating year.
• Establish an installment plan automatically or
  manually for an assessment.
• Calculate the installment fees to be applied.
• What impact interim charges have on installment
  plans.
• Receipt to installment plans.
• Correct installment variances
• Send reminder notices
• Withdraw an Installment plan
• Get reports and enquire on the current status of
  installment plans.

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• Pensioner/Seniors
• Since the legislation changes to Pensioners and
  Seniors in relation to rebates it has become more
  important to ensure you understand how the System
  handles these situations. A half day course is
  offered which covers all aspects of pensioner and
  senior entitlements. This training session
  includes
• How to record which charges are entitled to a
  rebate or deferment situation
• How to record an owner and assessment as an
  entitled pensioner or senior, including numerous
  hands on examples.
• How to establish an arrears arrangement plan for
  entitled pensioners.
• Receipting to pensioner/senior assessments so
  that rebate will automatically be given.
• Claiming rebates from State Revenue Department
• Resubmitting Rejected Claims
• Controlling the deferred status on an assessment
  and submitting deferment claims.
• Reminder letters for pensioners before charges
  are deferred.
• Removing the pensioner status on assessments.
• Enquiries and report functions.

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• Payroll Processing
• This comprehensive one day course covers various
  aspects of processing the payroll. Of all the
  courses , this course has the most Wow, I didnt
  know we could do that! comments. Find out how
  the payroll should really be done. This course
  is a pre-requisite for the Payroll Advanced
  Course. It is suitable for beginners as well as
  advanced users of the system. The course begins
  with the basics
• How to create a new employee.
• Timesheet Input, including how to copy timesheets
  for employees working together in gangs.
• Multiple pay periods and how to control them
• Interim Pays
• Extensive explanation of the use of allowance
  codes and adjustment codes, including how to pay
  leave and pay employees at a different pay rate.
• Automatic override of general ledger and job
  ledger allocations.
• Pre Payroll Procedures
• Main payroll run

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• Payroll Advanced
• This full day course takes what you have learnt
  in the Pay Processing Course one step further.
  NB the Payroll Processing Course is a
  pre-requisite for attending this Advanced Course.
  Details covered will include
• How to pay and control employee deductions and
  employer contributions.
• How to automatically control superannuation
  payments for part time or casual employees
• Salary Sacrificing
• Electronic Transfers of net payment details,
  superannuation contributions, taxations or any
  deductions or contributions.
• Automatic invoicing of workers compensation
  payments
• A brief overview of the leave system. A half day
  course extensively covers this topic.
• Termination payments
• Payroll Allocations
• Reconciling the payroll allocations and payments
• Group certificates
• Advanced payroll security

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• Payroll Leave System
• Do you still have manual leave cards or spend all
  your time trying to understand what the leave
  records are telling you? Then this half day
  course is for you. Find out how to automatically
  control the accrual and payment of leave. This
  course comprehensively covers
• Accruals of all leave types.
• How to accrue leave correctly for part time
  employees.
• How to accrue different types of leave
  situations, e.g. 5 weeks instead of the standard
  4 weeks.
• How to stop leave from accruing when people are
  on unpaid leave.
• Keeping track of medical certificates and unpaid
  leave occurrences.
• How to correctly switch employees from part time
  to full time leave accruals.
• Payment of leave taken
• Adjusting leave records
• Clearing and resetting the leave records.

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• Access Basic
• Ever been frustrated by wanting to get a report
  out of the system and not sure how to do it?
  This basic course will tell you all you need to
  know to generate your own reports with the use of
  ACCESS. ACCESS is a general purpose data
  retrieval language which enables you to produce a
  variety of reports quickly and easily. ACCESS is
  used extensively throughout LOGIS. This one day
  course is designed so that people from novice
  user to the experienced user of ACCESS will
  obtain benefit from the information provided.
  Try a couple of these simple commands to see how
  easy it is
• Want a total of the balance outstanding on rating
  assessments, just type SUM PROPERTY BALANCE
• Want a count of the number of creditors with
  amounts owing. COUNT CREDITOR WITH BALANCE GT
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• Find out how to do these are more. Topics
  covered include
• System Structure
• File Structures
• Rules for ACCESS sentences
• Using ACCESS for your own purposes
• How to sort, select, summarise, total information
  in ACCESS
• Practice in using ACCESS sentences, where an
  instructor can point you in the right direction.
• Summary of the commands that can be used in ACCESS

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• Access Advanced
• This half day course is designed for people who
  understand the use of ACCESS but want to take it
  one step further and create their own dictionary
  items. Once the creations of dictionaries is
  mastered your use of ACCESS is unlimited. This
  course is ideal for advanced users of the system.

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• SQL ODBC
• This half day course takes enquiry languages one
  step further than ACCESS. Structured Query
  Language (SQL) and Open Database Connectivity
  (ODBC) allows for data to be extracted from
  LOGIS/PGOLD to be used in Crystal Reporting,
  Excel, Word or any other ODBC compliant reporting
  package. Once this skill is mastered you can
  generate whatever report you like from the data
  in LOGIS/PGOLD, the only limitation is your
  imagination.

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• Budget
• Find out how to use the LOGIS system to generate
  your budgets. Whether you prefer the LOGIS
  Worksheets or using Excel this half day course
  will show you how to update the LOGIS system.
  Topics covered include
• How to input and report on budgets.
• The use of budget worksheets so that managers can
  enter their requirements.
• Interface of the LOGIS system with Excel so that
  budgets can be transferred back to the LOGIS
  system.

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• Financial Reporting
• What do the various selection parameters in the
  LOGIS financial reports do???
• A full day course that will provide the skills to
  setup both statutory and management reports using
  either or both 550 and GENEX.
• Course content will include
• Use of reporting and responsibility codes
• Setting up of balancing reports
• Reporting from both Job General Ledger
• There will be a workshop component in the
  courseplease bring along examples of reports you
  aim to produce.

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• Asset Register
• This comprehensive half day course covers all
  aspect of the Asset Register in
• LOGIS as well as brief overview of Assets in
  PROSPECT. Learn all about
• amalgamating or splitting assets, renumbering
  assets, disposal or trade in of
• assets, how to revalue an asset just to mention
  some of the topic.

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• Stock Control
• Having trouble keeping track of those fuel
  issues? Not sure how many sprinkler
• fittings you have left in your Depot storage?
  Need to know what stock items are
• being issued to which departments. Attend this
  half day Stock Control course and
• you will find out how to effectively control your
  stock.

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• LOGIS Administrators Course
• As with a car if you dont service your computer
  and put the fuel into it, eventually
• it will breakdown. This half day Administrators
  Course explains the basics that are
• needed to keep your system running smoothly.
  Find out how to set up
• background resizing so that your file sizes are
  always kept to an optimum level
• and so speeds up processing time. Get a copy of
  a backup procedure to make
• sure all your data is saved at our recommended
  intervals.

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• System Administrators
• Whilst the LOGIS Administrators course is
  designed more to assist IT Supervisors with the
  day to day operations of the LOGIS system. This
  half day System Administrators course is more
  involved with the operating system and what can
  go wrong. Learn to look for the warning signs
  and what can be done when trouble first appears.
  Do a VME Restore in our training room so that you
  can see the full process from start to finish.