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Are you feeling increased pressure to meet the requirements of changing accounting standards? Do you wish to complete engagements more efficiently and improve file consistency? Many public accountants are seeking solutions to streamline the preparation of letters, working papers and financial statements. 

CaseWare Working Papers, is well established with accountants as an excellent application to manage year-end file preparation. However, many firms purchasing CaseWare have found that they need additional templates to realize the most from their investment.  Outside consultants have been offering programming services to create CaseView templates on a client by client basis for some time.  Now a comprehensive suite of templates is available for CaseWare called JAZZ-it!

PRODUCTIVITY

Did you purchase CaseWare expecting to significantly reduce the time to complete engagements?  Ask yourself if you are doing any of the following: 

Using Word or WordPerfect to generate letters or financial statements Using Excel to produce key working papers Spending valuable time trying to create and maintain documents in CaseView

While these methods have been adequate in the past, they becoming increasingly difficult to manage in today’s rapidly changing accounting environment.  These older systems burden you with manually transferring last minute adjustments from your trial balance to the final reports.  How much time are you spending lately dealing with updates for GAAP changes?  JAZZ-it! can help you deal effectively with this rapid change.

JAZZ-it! is helping thousands of professionals across Canada.  The product provides a wide range of key working papers and letters as well as a powerful financial statement generator.  All of these components are integrated so that information flows logically from one area to the next.  Updates to JAZZ-IT! are provided regularly over the Internet and are easy to apply.

CONSISTENCY

Adding CaseWare to your practice should improve the consistency of your firm’s work.  In practice, this is not always the case.  If you have developed custom working papers, letters, or financial statements you are susceptible to data entry and dependency errors in the preparation of engagements, especially as changes are made to a file.  JAZZ-it! provides you with a system to track changes and that interdependent data is updated accurately.

JAZZ-it! dramatically increases the consistency of your file work by: 

Storing working papers and letters in a central library called the resource centre; Sharing data between working papers, letters and financial statements; Employing self-checking diagnostics which proactively identify inconsistencies within files; Automatically rolling data forward each year.

Changes made to working papers and letters in the central library can be quickly propagated to your client files.  File Reviews are greatly simplified through diagnostic tools and a dramatic reduction in manual data entry. 

JAZZ-it! provides you with highly professional and consistently formatted output by drawing on centrally located resources. 

STAY UP TO DATE

Keeping up with changes to GAAP as well as changes to CaseWare can be a time consuming task, especially if it means having to go into dozens of client files and manually update Word or Excel files.  There is a risk of missing an important change or at the very least spending a great deal of time to make necessary changes at inopportune times.  The cost and risk of keeping up to date is a reality of using CaseWare and is often not considered early on in the purchase or implementation of the software. 

JAZZ-it! utilizes a centralized library which allows you to quickly update and deploy revisions.  Such updates are provided on the JAZZ-it! website and practitioners can visit the site to download the latest version of any template.  The updates are copied into their centralized library and seamlessly deployed to client files.  JAZZ-it! online resources are updated regularly with new working papers and notes to respond to changes in GAAP and incorporate feedback from a large base of users.  JAZZ-it! keeps up with changes to CaseWare functionality by testing and incorporating new CaseWare features as they become available. 

SUMMARY 

JAZZ-it! can help you reduce the time to complete engagements and improve file consistency. A recent survey of JAZZ-it! firms confirms this finding with overall engagement costs reduced between 20% – 40%. 

If you are looking to manage the challenges of today’s changing accounting requirements, take a look at JAZZ-it!. 

Call us today toll free at 1-877-420-5930 to get started.