Glencoe’s existing financial system that had been in place since 1993 required costly programming modifications to accommodate the Village’s business processes changes.  “The transition from Pentamation to Innoprise Financials has been very smooth and since we’ve gone live on Innoprise Financials things are going very well,” said Clark. “We have gone through our first round of bank reconciliations with Innoprise data. Accounts payable, requisitions, purchase orders are all working fine. The general ledger activity conversion process to Innoprise general ledger is working very well,” explained Clark.

“October 2008 was the first month with Innoprise Financial reports being presented to the Board and I am very pleased with the reports,” said Clark. According to Clark, we are able to set up monthly reports as operating statements instead of separate revenue and expense reports. I have also used ad hoc reporting to create a general ledger cash and investment report which also shows investment revenue. The budget module is very intuitive. I have created a request budget and recommended budget for FY 2010 and can easily extract the data into a Filemaker database to create sub-total reports.

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