Friday, 2 September 2011

ViewPoint Practice Manager

Practice Manager is comprised of three elements Sales Ledger, Purchase Ledger and Time and Disbursements. Each element integrates with the others to provide a single comprehensive solution for the sales, purchase, time charging and recovery operations of professional wealth and entity management organisations.
To support accurate postings and prevent duplication of effort, Practice Manager instantly integrates all posted transactions with Client Accountant to both client and internal accounts.

Sales Ledger
The complete multi-currency Sales Ledger is tailored to meet the needs of the entity management industry. Offering optional draft / pro-forma features it provides flexibility and control to both manual ad-hoc invoicing, individual and batch invoicing of recurring fees - including ad-valorem fees - and settlements. Additional advanced features such as automated fee review, individual client fee agreements, file cloning and invoice templates streamline the debtor management process.

Matters and Projects
Multiple matters and projects can be created to distinguish the different services and revenue entities related to each client. Credit and retainer limits can be allocated to matters and projects to easily manage WIP.

Reporting
A comprehensive suite of reports, for example fee earners performance and debtor control, are easily generated in Microsoft Word or Excel.

Government Fees
The Sales Ledger includes a feature to manage advance invoicing, recovery, tracking and disbursement of government fees. Arising penalties are calculated and displayed, so users can immediately view the goodstanding of an entity.

VAT / Sales Tax
Practice Manager includes a range of service and client configuration features to enable service providers to simplify the management and reporting requirements of VAT / Sales Tax.

Purchase Ledger

The Purchase Ledger reflects best business practice for the recording, monitoring, settling and recovery of expenses and payables.

Purchases
To assist you with your accounts payable process and cash flow management, purchase orders can be created for management approval and later cross-referencing with payable invoices. The ability to assign departments to each purchase order or invoice facilities cost allocation, expense recovery and budget management.

Settlements and Recovery
Mirroring your settlement process, payables can be settled partially by individual invoice line, in full or in batches of multiple supplier invoices. Integrated with Time & Disbursements, purchases made on behalf of, or incurred in respect of clients and third parties, are recovered by the automatic creation of a disbursement for future re-invoicing.

Time & Disbursements

An easy to use program designed for the real time recording, productivity analysis and recovery of WIP and disbursements.

Multi-Tasking
The multi stopwatch feature allows users to start recording time on one task, then if interrupted for another task, start another stopwatch, automatically pausing the first stopwatch. With the ability to have up to five stopwatches in progress at any one time, this module works the way you do.

Productivity Management
Productivity targets, relating to chargeable time and services, can be set for each user to view individual and team performance.

Flexibility
Multiple fee levels and charging methods, such as ‘rate per user’ or ‘rate per task’, provide flexibility in the recovery of chargeable time.

Disbursements
‘Out of Pocket’ expense, for example telephone, postage and travel expenses, are easily recorded and efficiently recharged, with an option to add a premium to recover administrative overhead.

Thursday, 7 July 2011

ViewPoint Software for Corporate and Trust

 

clip_image002 Over 50% of all the entities under management in the Cayman Islands are managed using solutions MCS has implemented and supports. MCS services a significant majority of Cayman’s top tier financial services firms in the specific vertical of Corporate and Trust support work.

ViewPoint is the market leading software for corporate and trust administration and is used globally by leading organizations such as Citco, Fortis, Citibank, Equity Trust, Walkers, Appleby and many others.

ViewPoint’s software is designed to cater for every aspect of the administration and management of entities including companies, trusts, partnerships, foundations and funds. ViewPoint is a fully integrated solution consisting of multiple modules. Representing the core business areas of our clients, the individual modules can be introduced on a module-by-module basis.

How We Can Help You?

In partnership with ViewPoint, MCS provides a full practice management suite of software for Corporate & Trust Management and addresses the following areas:

· Corporate & Trust life cycle management;
· Automated workflow and the production of statutory documentation;
· KYC and Compliance management;
· Full audit trail and security model;
· Comprehensive document scanning and management system;
· Time and billing module dealing with annual fee generation and automated validation against the corporate files;
· Full company and trust accounting supporting segregating income and capital accounting;
· Integration with MS Word, Excel and Outlook.

As an alternate to the full practice management suit of the software, ViewPoint provides a ‘Lite’ version which caters for the start up or boutique Corporate & Trust Management companies. ViewPoint Lite addresses the following areas:

· Corporate & Trust life cycle management;
· Automated workflow and the production of statutory documentation;
· KYC and Compliance management;
· Full audit trail and security model;

MCS provides a full inception to delivery service using a range of experienced consultants including a Corporate & Trust specialist, business analysts, viewpoint specialists and database / reporting developers. The MCS Financial Solutions Group currently services a range of clients across the following jurisdictions: Cayman Islands, BVI, Barbados, Curacao, Jersey, US and Bermuda.

Contact Us

If you would like to explore the potential benefits of using ViewPoint for your Corporate and Trust practice then please feel free to contact MCS.

Wednesday, 11 May 2011

Welcome to the MCS ViewPoint Practice Blog

This blog will be used to publish information associated with the MCS Ltd. ViewPoint Practice, including forthcoming events, useful product updates and information about ViewPoint usage which may be of interest to our customers. Please use the email subscription tool on the right-hand side of this page to receive automatic updates…