Mls 3.2
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 11:21 pm
MLS 3.2 is available. Release Notes Attached.
Financial Upgrades come when the Church Unit Banking System
is Activated. Some will be real time-savers. Others I expect
will cause some problems.
Auto-reconciliation : This will be appreciated by the financial
clerks quite a bit I imagine.
Budget Account: Tying this to the actual allocated amount
received by the Stake follows some accounting principles
but I expect it will lead to every Stake having to adopt a
method of quarterly allocation of funds instead of even
bothering with yearly allocations (which, while they are
technically only estimations, help wards plan for the year.)
Question - What happens to the balance in this account
from Quarter-to-Quarter, and from Year End-to-New Year ?
Direct Charges Account: I always just used a specific Payee for
the Distribution Center charges, but maybe this new Account
will make sure Distribution charges are recorded. Just don't
make it an Urgent Task. I know wards that don't ever bother
to look at them.
Donor Names: Forced to be the Membership record name. Even
with a checkbox to include the spouse, this is just ripe to cause
problems. Doesn't it seem that every ward has at least one donor
who goes by their middle name. People aren't going to start
filling out the donation slips any differently. So all this will do is
make it more difficult to match the slip to the donor. I really don't
know why this is being imposed as an "upgrade". The current system
prints the Membership record name on the records that count (tax
statements) anyway, so this just seems like an completely unwanted
and unnecessary change that will cause more problems then it solves.
Finally, nowhere in the release notes does it mention the changes in relation
to Missionary Accounts that have been mentioned on this forum. Why is it that key changes to MLS are almost always omitted from the Release Notes ?
- Atticus
Financial Upgrades come when the Church Unit Banking System
is Activated. Some will be real time-savers. Others I expect
will cause some problems.
Auto-reconciliation : This will be appreciated by the financial
clerks quite a bit I imagine.
Budget Account: Tying this to the actual allocated amount
received by the Stake follows some accounting principles
but I expect it will lead to every Stake having to adopt a
method of quarterly allocation of funds instead of even
bothering with yearly allocations (which, while they are
technically only estimations, help wards plan for the year.)
Question - What happens to the balance in this account
from Quarter-to-Quarter, and from Year End-to-New Year ?
Direct Charges Account: I always just used a specific Payee for
the Distribution Center charges, but maybe this new Account
will make sure Distribution charges are recorded. Just don't
make it an Urgent Task. I know wards that don't ever bother
to look at them.
Donor Names: Forced to be the Membership record name. Even
with a checkbox to include the spouse, this is just ripe to cause
problems. Doesn't it seem that every ward has at least one donor
who goes by their middle name. People aren't going to start
filling out the donation slips any differently. So all this will do is
make it more difficult to match the slip to the donor. I really don't
know why this is being imposed as an "upgrade". The current system
prints the Membership record name on the records that count (tax
statements) anyway, so this just seems like an completely unwanted
and unnecessary change that will cause more problems then it solves.
Finally, nowhere in the release notes does it mention the changes in relation
to Missionary Accounts that have been mentioned on this forum. Why is it that key changes to MLS are almost always omitted from the Release Notes ?
- Atticus