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General
When working with timeSensor LEGAL, accounting-relevant information accumulates. Corresponding business transactions are automatically posted by the software in the double-entry accounting system. Therefore, you store your chart of accounts and, if necessary, your cost centres in timeSensor LEGAL. However, timeSensor LEGAL is not the right software to create an accounting statement. Special accounting software is used for this purpose. The created bookings are therefore periodically exported from timeSensor LEGAL and transferred to the accounting programme so that the financial statement can be created there. This article describes two typical application scenarios and lists the accounting programmes to which timeSensor LEGAL has an interface.
Deployment scenarios
Posting of payment transactions
You can use timeSensor LEGAL to map the entire payment transaction: the revenue side is automatically updated as far as debtors are concerned. Whenever you enter a payment in an invoice, the corresponding payment also appears on the revenue side of the corresponding bank book. Now, in timeSensor LEGAL, you can also enter the other revenues and expenses in the land registers and thus reconcile them with your bank statements on a monthly basis. This means that the entire payment transaction is fully accounted for in the law firm software. Your advantage: all information is easily available.
Posting of the debtor side only
Some law firms are content to keep only the accounts receivable side in timeSensor LEGAL. This is the case, for example, if you still use separate accounting software yourself and the payment transactions are posted via the accounting software. In this scenario, only the payments for the invoices you have issued are in timeSensor LEGAL.
timeSensor LEGAL supports accounting according to receipts (ACTUAL taxation) and according to agreed charges (TARGET taxation). In addition, lump-sum taxation is also supported in Switzerland (according to receipts). The selected tax system must be set when the software is put into operation and can be changed over at the beginning of each accounting year if required.
Handover to the accounting department
Whether you run the entire payment transaction via timeSensor LEGAL or only the accounts receivable side: you can export the bookings available in tSL on a monthly or periodic basis and import them into your accounting software (or the accounting software of your financial advisor). For this purpose, tSL provides interfaces to a variety of programmes:
- ABACUS 12.x-…
- ABACUS ABACONNECT 2012
- Banana
- Bexio
- Crésus einfach
- Crésus erweitert
- DATEV
- FibuNT 4.7b-…
- Loops
- M.O.R. Fibu
- MasterFinanz 1.7-…
- OfficeMaker
- ProFinance
- Sage 50
- ShakeHands Conto
- Topal
- Topix8 SU
- Winbiz
You will find the export function in the Special area under Accounting/Fibu Interfaces.
Disclaimer: the manufacturers of the various accounting software are constantly developing their products and in some cases also their interfaces. The above list represents a snapshot. It is possible that an interface to a product that works today will no longer work tomorrow because the manufacturer has changed its interface specification. timeSensor AG endeavours to maintain compatibility with the above products. However, it cannot be guaranteed that every interface to every version of the above products will be available at all times. Therefore, carry out a test export at an early stage to check compatibility with the version of the accounting software used by you or your financial advisor.