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QSS Workshops For 2007-2008  

QSS is pleased to announce that the following workshops will be offered to customers at the QSS offices in San Mateo , California. (Please note the following exceptions: the Payroll seminars on March 24-25, 2008 are being hosted by Sacramento COE at their offices.) You can download this announcement in Microsoft Word and PDF format.

Whenever possible, QSS seminars will focus on the graphical user interface (GUI) versions of QSS software.

Look below the table for a key to the Status codes.

Date Workshop Status
7 Aug 2007 (Tue) Employee Absence Tracking Introduction
and Overview
, including Leave Group Definitions, Recording Employee Leave, Leave Accrual Processing, Reset and Balance Forward Processing, and Employee Leave Reports
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Completed
14 Aug 2007 (Tue) Morning č Implementing GUI Security (by 
staff from Merced COE)
Afternoon č Package Manager (by QSS)
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Canceled
15 Aug 2007 (Wed) Financial Systems Introduction/Overview
(Budget Development, Budget, General Ledger, Financial Reports, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Purchasing, Fixed Assets, Stores)
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Canceled
2 Oct 2007 (Tue) HR/Payroll Systems Introduction/Overview
(Personnel, Position Control, Absence Tracking, Job History, Benefits Management, Payroll, Retirement)
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Completed
3 Oct 2007 (Wed) Human Resources, including Code Maintenance, Employee Maintenance (Demographics, Client-Defined Data, Comments, Employee Contract Info, Education/Units, Evaluation Info, Medical/Emergency Info, Seniority, Skills/Subjects/Degrees/In-service Data, Termination Information, Teaching History & Subject/Site Preferences and Employee Verification), Applicant Processing, Human Resources Utilities
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Completed
4 Oct 2007 (Thu) Human Resources Report Selector
including Special Forms and Notices; HR Query; Personnel Downloader; and Personnel Action Forms (PAFs)
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Canceled
(combined with Oct. 3 workshop)
5 Oct 2007 (Fri) Credentials and Personnel Assignment
Tracking
; Credentials Reports including Credential Notification for Payroll
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Canceled
23 Oct 2007 (Tue) Beginning Financial Reports
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Completed
24 Oct 2007 (Wed) Core Financial, including General Ledger
Setup, Financial Account Maintenance, Budget Maintenance, General Ledger Transactions, Accounts Receivable, Indirect Cost Accounting and Account Summarization
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Completed
25 Oct 2007 (Thu) Purchasing, including Requisitions, Purchase Orders, PO Change Orders, PO Receiving, PO Routing and Purchasing Reports
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Canceled
6 Nov 2007 (Tue) Establishing Security in the GUI Software with QSSControlCenter
    
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Completed
7- 8 Nov 2007 (Wed and Thu) Hands-on Linux for System Administrators (two-day, hands-on seminar, limited to 12 workstations – one trainee per computer = $600, two trainees per computer = $1,000)
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Completed
10 Dec 2007 (Mon) Accounts Payable Rescheduled for 13 Jun 2008
11 Dec 2007 (Tue) W2 and 1099 Processing for 2007 
    
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Completed
15 Jan 2008 (Tue) Payroll Introduction and Overview, including Master Files and Rate Tables, Employee Maintenance (W4 /Control Data, Pay Lines, Pay Deductions, Time Card Data, Payroll Information, Termination), Mass Updates to Pay Lines and Pay Deductions, Auto-Pay Deposit, Payroll Prelist Reports, and California PERS Revenue Limit Reduction Processing Rescheduled for 24 Mar 2008 at Sacramento COE
16 Jan 2008 (Wed) Intermediate Payroll, including Hand and Canceled Warrants, Labor/Benefits and Payroll History Inspection, Payroll Totals, Summer Payrolls, Retroactive Payrolls, Benefits-Only Payrolls, Payroll Encumbering, Payroll Production Reports, Quarterly Reporting and Warrant Management Rescheduled for 25 Mar 2008 at Sacramento COE
11 Feb 2008 (Mon) Advanced Financial Reports
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Completed
12 Feb 2008 (Tue) Budget Development
    
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Completed
14 Feb 2008 (Thu) Introduction to Position Control
    
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Completed
24 Mar 2008 (Mon) at Sacramento COE Payroll Introduction and Overview, including Master Files and Rate Tables, Employee Maintenance (W4 /Control Data, Pay Lines, Pay Deductions, Time Card Data, Payroll Information, Termination), Mass Updates to Pay Lines and Pay Deductions, Auto-Pay Deposit, Payroll Prelist Reports, and California PERS Revenue Limit Reduction Processing
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Completed
25 Mar 2008 (Tue) at Sacramento COE Intermediate Payroll, including Hand and Canceled Warrants, Labor/Benefits and Payroll History Inspection, Payroll Totals, Summer Payrolls, Retroactive Payrolls, Benefits-Only Payrolls, Payroll Encumbering, Payroll Production Reports, Quarterly Reporting and Warrant Management
     QSS strongly recommends that people who sign up for this workshop also attend the one on March 24.
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Completed
17 Apr 2008 (Thu) Establishing Security in the GUI Software with QSSControlCenter
    
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Canceled
6 May 2008 (Tue) Stores, Fixed Assets and Fixed Assets Inventory Software
    
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Canceled
7 May 2008 (Wed) Fiscal Year Transition Tasks for Finance, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Stores, Payroll, Position Control, Retirement, Absence Tracking, Benefits Management and Job History
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Medium
13 Jun 2008 (Fri) Accounts Payable, including Overview, Vendor Maintenance, other Master Files, Batching, Overview of Purchase Orders and Requisitions, PO Payments, Pay Vouchers, Travel Claims, Credit Memos, Liability Payments, Accounts Payable Reports, Transaction Maintenance, Revolving Cash, Hand and Canceled Warrants, End of Year Processing and 1099 Processing
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Key to Workshop Status Codes

There is also a list of seminars sponsored by the QSS Users Group.

General Information

Time: 9 a.m. - 12:00 noon, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Location: All seminars are held at the QSS offices at 2121 S. El Camino Real, Suite D200, San Mateo, California 94403.  For a map and directions please see http://www.qss.com/QSSMap.pdf(Please note the following exceptions: the Payroll seminars on March 24-25, 2008 are being hosed by Sacramento COE at their offices.)

Cost:  Tuition for all one-day workshops is $250 per person per workshop - if 10 or more paying customers attend a workshop, QSS will only invoice $200 per person for that workshop.

Tuition for the two-day “Hands-on Linux for System Administrators” is $600 for one person using a computer, $1,000 for two people sharing a single computer – registration for this workshop is limited to 12 computers – QSS provides the computers for this seminar, and offers no discount off the advertised $600 per person per computer or $1,000 shared computer tuition.

Registration:  Announcements, including seminar descriptions and registration forms, will be mailed to each QSS customer approximately 10 weeks prior to each workshop.

QSS reserves the right to cancel any of the above workshops if fewer than eight people have registered three weeks prior to the scheduled workshop date.  This page is updated throughout the year to reflect any cancellations or changes in scheduling. If a workshop is canceled due to low registration, QSS will notify pre-registered participants three weeks prior to the seminar date. QSS recommends that participants not make non-refundable travel arrangements prior to that date.

For more information about any of these seminars, please contact your QSS Account Manager, or contact:

             Tina Hong — (650) 372-0200 ext. 600   or    Frank Fish — (530) 271-0306

If your organization would like to contract with QSS to have any of the seminars listed above presented at your district offices, please contact Frank Fish at (530) 271-0306.