Thomson Reuters

Packed with time-saving features, Trial Balance CS is an ideal application for managing all trial balance activities with maximum efficiency.

With its customizable and easy-to-use financial statement editor, Trial Balance CS delivers full trial balance functionality, analysis, and reporting capabilities.  Used as a standalone program or combined with the integrated capabilities of the CS Professional Suite, Trial Balance CS makes your trial balance engagements incredibly easy.

The flexible financial statement editor makes it easy for you to design custom statements in minutes.

With Trial Balance CS, you can:

• Save time during tax season by seamlessly exporting trial balance data to UltraTax CS, GoSystem Tax, and other leading tax programs.
• Easily create presentation-quality financial statements and other analytical reports with a customizable, built-in financial statement editor.
• Get trial balance engagements up and running quickly by importing balances from spreadsheets or QuickBooks Pro; all data from Write-Up CS, such as the Chart of Accounts, is automatically available toTrial Balance CS with zero data entry.
• Set up "report profiles" or groups of reports, as well as recurring financial statements for each client, or customize the built-in reports for individual client needs, with a variety of print options.

Why choose Trial Balance CS?

• Comprehensive trial balance features: Import, filter, and analyze trial balance information, then produce professional-quality reports and financial statements.
• Seamless integration: Trial Balance CS was developed to integrate with CS Professional Suite products, so data and balances entered in one product flow seamlessly to the others. Trial Balance CS integrates with FileCabinet CS, Write-Up CS, and UltraTax CS, and is a component of Engagement CS.
• Time-saving instant review: The ultra-flexible main screen allows you to view trial balance view and record journal entries on the same screen, so you can see the effects of your entries instantly.

Full Trial Balance, Analysis, and Reporting Capabilities:

• Easily import balances from a spreadsheet or QuickBooks Pro.
• Custom-design the sequence of columns in the Trial Balance grid to view various combinations of balances and adjustments.
• Add custom workpaper references and tickmarks to indicate the review status of accounts.
• Organize accounts by grouping codes and subcodes for faster, more detailed account analysis and reporting.
• Filter the Trial Balance grid to direct the focus to a distinct chart of accounts subset.
• Customize basis definitions by determining the appropriate entries included in specific balances.
• Easily switch the basis for your financial statements -- cash, accrual, tax, book, budget, and more.
• Change potential journal entries to other journal entry types.
• Automatically post adjusting journal entries to the trial balance in real time.
• Immediately see how your journal entries affect your trial balance with the convenient split-screen window.
• Enter budget journal entries and create an adjusted budget balance.
• Create customized, presentation-quality financial statements and other analytical reports using the flexible financial statement editor.
• Produce multi-year trend and ratio analyses and other comparisons using Microsoft Excel-like spreadsheet commands.
• Save time during tax season with easy integration with leading tax programs.
  
  

Time-saving Data-Entry Features:

• Store up to 10 years of balances and adjusting journal entries.
• Set up tickmarks for staff to review, check off, or analyze an account.
• Add account numbers, tickmarks, grouping codes, and sub-codes on the fly.
• Use the built-in Find feature in the Trial Balance window to instantly locate specific accounts.
• Automatically complete fields with common information using the Autofill feature.
• Create up to five grouping schedules with an unlimited number of grouping codes and sub-codes.
• Consolidate clients easily -- by account number or grouping schedule¿and enter eliminating entries.
• Customize the Trial Balance view to include columns of information in the sequence you prefer.
• Create reversing adjusting journal entries or create recurring journal entries for the following journal types: adjusting, reclassifying, tax adjusting, other, potential, or budget.
• Record tax adjusting journal entries directly to a tax code -- without the need to set up a contra account when making Schedule M1 or Schedule M3 adjustments.
  
  

Professional, Customized Financial Statements:

• Choose from more than 40 built-in templates, or create your own.
• Copy financial statement formats from client to client to use the same format for all your clients, or edit statements on a per-client basis.
• Design statements with the easy-to-use row-and-column matrix.
• Create a professional presentation with the ability to modify fonts and borders, or add your own logo (or other bitmap).
• Use conditional statements that will print information only under certain "if...then" conditions.
• Drill down to see the detail of line items in financial statements and edit adjustments.
• Choose from 39 system-provided analytical ratios, or create your own custom ratios.
• Add your own customized full-color 3-D line and bar graphs and pie charts to clearly illustrate your statements.
• Create custom footnotes and choose from a variety of print options to produce reports that meet each client's needs.
• Perform cash vs. accrual or book vs. tax comparisons.
• Round account balances to the nearest whole dollar easily to produce rounded financial statements and reports.

Built-in Reports to Help Manage all Your Engagements:

• Adjusting Journal Entries
• Chart of Accounts
• Client Information Report
• Financial Statement Setup Listings
• Financial Statement Worksheet
• Grouping Schedule Report
• Tax Code Report
• Trial Balance Grid Report
• Trial Balance Report
• Trial Balance Variance Report
• Trial Balance Worksheet

Thomson Tax & Accounting products are designed for professional production work. Our system requirements are based on the assumption that professional accounting firms replace their computer hardware and operating systems approximately every three years.

While our products may operate on less powerful hardware and operating systems, we do not believe it will perform at a level suitable for production work in those environments. Of course, as processing speed and RAM are increased, software performance will also improve.

We recommend workstation class computers, which generally offer higher levels of performance than desktop models when running business applications.

For a complete listing of systems requirements for the CS Professional Suite, click here.