CCAS Light3 (and Light2) Details
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Government Contracts Accounting
- Light3 and Light2 project cost accounting software with DCAA compliant Web-based electronic timekeeping and general financial accounting (GL).
- Fully supports both government contract (FAR compliance) and non-government project accounting.
- Simple and complex work-breakdown (task) levels and all contract types supported, including cost-plus-fixed-fee (CPFF), time and materials (T&M), and firm-fixed-price (FFP).
- Automatic billings (including government SF 1034,1035 and DD250), billed and unbilled revenue calculations and journal entries.
- On-demand indirect cost rate(s) calculations and allocations. Proof of your implemented indirect cost rate structure is provided. Fringe Benefits, Overhead (on and off-site), General and Administrative (G&A), and Material Handling rate calculations are supported.
- On-demand, ready-for-filing DCAA incurred cost submissions and indirect cost pool reports.
- Supports divisions, cost centers and related indirect cost rate structures.
- Full contract budget and backlog reporting.
- Complete payroll, personnel, and labor utilization analyses.
- Supports all pay types and "uncompensated overtime".
- Comprehensive government contracts management reports.
- Exhaustive audit trails.
- Contract administration support.
Internet Electronic Timkeeping
- Light3 Capture Web Publishing, our successor to C'estTime, is Web-based electronic timekeeping at its fastest and best. Designed for any organization that needs real-time reporting of employee labor hours expended and labor costs. In particular, it meets the special needs of government contractors whose control over the timekeeping process must be "ironclad".
- A field-proven - fast, complete, and straightforward - system for the entry, validation, review and approval of employee time charges.
- On-line mapping (scheduling) of employees to projects and tasks and labor categories under those efforts. Hours budgets are allowed for each entry and budgeted hours remaining are reported to managers and employees in real-time.
- Ability to constrain employee activity selection lists to those mapped (scheduled).
- On-line Executive Manager review and approval of employee time charges.
- On-line Division Manager review and approval of employee time charges.
- On-line Project Manager review and approval of employee time charges.
- On-line Client (External) Manager review and approval of employee time charges optionally enabled.
- Built-in email interactivity between employees and managers.
- Manager's on-line and real-time pay period labor utilization analyses.
- Run from Windows or Macintosh platforms (either, or both).
- Lowest total cost of ownership( TCO); fastest and most stable electronic timekeeper.
- Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) approval at CCAS user sites across the US.
- Fast (up to 100 simultaneous users), easy to use, and easier still to maintain.
Financial Accounting
- Light3 and Light2 utilize CCAS's proprietary "Cycle" approach to accounting operations (transaction and data entry, reporting and analysis).
- Ready-to-go configurations provided for government contractors, not-for-profit organizations and general businesses.
- Flexible account naming. Use any combination of numbers and letters (up to 14) to build your General Ledger Chart of Accounts.
- Customizable financial statements.
- Financial statements and reports available for any period(s) for which account data exists.
- Quick recaps of key ratios, rates and other important data.
- Ad Hoc (on-the-fly) reporting with user-customizable criteria selection and data exporting options.
- In-line, real-time account histories and analyses.
- Real-time cash reporting, analysis, account reconciliation and check writing.
- Complete Accounts Receivable and Billing.
- Complete Accounts Payable.
- Purchase Orders with open commitment reporting.
- Standard, or repeating, entires fully supported.
- Complete payroll accounting and basic personnel administration.
- Fringe Benefits management.
- Fixed assets and depreciation.
Other Software Features
- User-configurable security by employee, function and "Cycle".
- User-definable transaction edit controls.
- Extensive in-line error-checking and data validation. Drop-down list and menus reduce the potential for data entry errors.
- Built-in transaction "Repair" and data file recovery and one-click and automated file server system backups.
- Context-sensitve help provided for all "screens". Supplemental documentation provided in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
- Extensive data exporting capabilities and transaction importing.
System Requirements
Windows 7 Ultimate, Professional, Home
Premium
• 1 GHz or faster
• 2 GB of RAM
• Direct X 9 graphics device
• DVD drive
Windows Vista Ultimate, Business, Home (SP 2)
• 1 GHz or faster
• 2 GB of RAM
• 1024 x 768 or higher resolution video adapter and display
• DVD drive
Windows XP Professional, Home Edition (SP3)
• Pentium III 700MHz or higher
• 2 GB of RAM
• 1024 x 768 or higher resolution video adapter and display
• DVD drive
Mac OS X 10.6
• Intel-based Mac
• 2 GB of RAM
• DVD drive
Mac OS X 10.5.7
• PowerPC G4 (867 MHz+), Power PC G5, Intel-based Mac
• 2 GB of RAM
• DVD drive
FileMaker Advanced Server 11 requirements are here.
• 1 GHz or faster
• 2 GB of RAM
• Direct X 9 graphics device
• DVD drive
Windows Vista Ultimate, Business, Home (SP 2)
• 1 GHz or faster
• 2 GB of RAM
• 1024 x 768 or higher resolution video adapter and display
• DVD drive
Windows XP Professional, Home Edition (SP3)
• Pentium III 700MHz or higher
• 2 GB of RAM
• 1024 x 768 or higher resolution video adapter and display
• DVD drive
Mac OS X 10.6
• Intel-based Mac
• 2 GB of RAM
• DVD drive
Mac OS X 10.5.7
• PowerPC G4 (867 MHz+), Power PC G5, Intel-based Mac
• 2 GB of RAM
• DVD drive
FileMaker Advanced Server 11 requirements are here.
Pricing and Ordering
In its base configuration, Light3 provides
for simultaneous access by any five
(5) users over your network. A
single-user version of Light3 is
also available. Additional users can
be added on an as-needed basis. A
Light2 license is
currently sold in a single-user
configuration only.
Light™ (Light3 and Light2) software can be further extended by user activation of Light3 Web Publishing, CCAS's embedded electronic timekeeping, labor cost management and "manloading" (mapping of employees and employee hours to projects and labor categories) system. Light Collaborative will be integrated into Light3 Web Publishing, via a CCAS's Harvest™ project, in late 2010.
Pricing of Light™ software, annual maintenance and support, options, and Light3 Web Publishing (electronic timekeeping) is available upon request.
Light™ (Light3 and Light2) software can be further extended by user activation of Light3 Web Publishing, CCAS's embedded electronic timekeeping, labor cost management and "manloading" (mapping of employees and employee hours to projects and labor categories) system. Light Collaborative will be integrated into Light3 Web Publishing, via a CCAS's Harvest™ project, in late 2010.
Pricing of Light™ software, annual maintenance and support, options, and Light3 Web Publishing (electronic timekeeping) is available upon request.
The working
marriage of traditional accounting concepts, and
thinking that embodies and harnesses the best of
today's technology, is the essence of CCAS's
Light software. It addresses the diverse
accounting requirements of companies, and
government contractors in particular, by
processing transactions from a functional
viewpoint...through "Cycles", as we call them.
Light adapts to your accounting requirements, however diverse they might be. For example, a firm that never had to be concerned with government contracts accounting requirements - but that was just awarded a government contract - can have a complete (DCAA compliant) government contracts job cost accounting system up-and-running with a couple of mouse clicks. Overnight. That afternoon. Now. By design, the potential is already "there".
At the core of Light is the General Ledger Accounts "Cycle". All system output has, at its core, individual entries to accounts in the general ledger.
In Light's proprietary accounting model, each general ledger account is a "super" account (Salaries Expense, for example). Accounts will have classifications associated with them: Income Statement; Cost of Sales, in this example. The account may also have special properties (Labor; Direct - On-Site), and the user may determine the actions that may be "applied" to the account. These actions are the "methods" associated with each of Light's “Cycles”. Sales (Accounts Receivable), Cash, and Reporting, are examples of “Cycles”.
So Light's power is centrally located: accessible, straight-forward and clear. The needs of simple and complex operations are satisfied at once. And because changing an account's properties or methods never alters the account's transactions, you have truly flexible accounting and reporting power at your immediate disposal.
Light’s screen-driven interface helps insure that answers to questions asked of any account(s) or transaction(s) is immediately available. Again, it's right there in front of you. As a result, Light's ease-of-use and audit trails are unsurpassed.
Light adapts to your accounting requirements, however diverse they might be. For example, a firm that never had to be concerned with government contracts accounting requirements - but that was just awarded a government contract - can have a complete (DCAA compliant) government contracts job cost accounting system up-and-running with a couple of mouse clicks. Overnight. That afternoon. Now. By design, the potential is already "there".
At the core of Light is the General Ledger Accounts "Cycle". All system output has, at its core, individual entries to accounts in the general ledger.
In Light's proprietary accounting model, each general ledger account is a "super" account (Salaries Expense, for example). Accounts will have classifications associated with them: Income Statement; Cost of Sales, in this example. The account may also have special properties (Labor; Direct - On-Site), and the user may determine the actions that may be "applied" to the account. These actions are the "methods" associated with each of Light's “Cycles”. Sales (Accounts Receivable), Cash, and Reporting, are examples of “Cycles”.
So Light's power is centrally located: accessible, straight-forward and clear. The needs of simple and complex operations are satisfied at once. And because changing an account's properties or methods never alters the account's transactions, you have truly flexible accounting and reporting power at your immediate disposal.
Light’s screen-driven interface helps insure that answers to questions asked of any account(s) or transaction(s) is immediately available. Again, it's right there in front of you. As a result, Light's ease-of-use and audit trails are unsurpassed.
