Expenditure Management
PPS Expense is an additional module in PPS that can be used to record practice expenditure. You can enter one record per expense item including which expenditure category the item is for your accounts records. You can also indicate when an item was paid.
Expenditure List
This shows your list of existing Expenditure records where you can Add new records, or highlight and modify/delete existing records. There are options to the left hand side of the expenses list screen to select to show Expenditure records that are paid/not paid, or to filter the list to only show certain types of records, along with specific suppliers and practioners only.
Accessing Records
Any of the expenses on the list can be highlighted and then modified or deleted. New expenses can also be raised from the bottom section, along with a manual screen refresh button to check for any changes to this list. Accounts
The PPS Accounts system includes facilities for you to bill your clients, or third parties, record payments received, and manage all invoices that are overdue for payment. In addition, PPS also offers an additional module called PPS Expense that can be used to record details of practice expenditure. The Accounts system in PPS is not designed to be a full accounts system with ledgers, balance sheets, etc. but it can be used to supply revenue and expenditure information directly to another accounts system by way of exporting the information through reports.
PPS Accounts billing is structured into three areas: Charges, Invoices and Payments. Firstly Charges must be created, then an invoice produced, then a payment recorded. A Charge, or charges simply become “line items” on an invoice, and a payment recorded is “allocated” to the invoice. PPS is flexible enough to accommodate all requirements for practice billing including third-party billing, split billing (between client and third party), recording several payments against one invoice, or recording one payment against several invoices. There are various points throughout PPS that enable charges to be quickly created and “paid off” in one step. This single step still produces the correct Charge, Invoice and Payment records. Add
Look this up under the type of new record you want to add – e.g. Client - Add or Appointment - Add Delete
Delete is the term used to remove any record or file in PPS. Most “data entry” type screens will include a Delete button on the toolbar. You can use this button to delete the currently displayed record. There are various restrictions placed on deleting records in certain parts of the system. For example you cannot delete a client record if accounts records exist for that client. The System Administrator can also decide which PPS Users are allowed to delete which type of records. This is set up as part of the User Profile for each user – see: Access Control for more details. Expenditure
See: Practice Expenditure report; PPS Expense Expenses
See: Practice Expenditure report; PPS Expense List
List is the term used to describe information that either appears on the screen or on a report in rows and columns. The term List is also used in PPS as a list of items such as menu, or list of entries such as a look up table. See also: List style diary. Modify
This is the term used throughout PPS to “change” any of your existing records. PPS has buttons on many screens with a <Modify> prompt. Clicking this button will normally take you onto a further screen that allows you to modify the selected details. For more information about modifying various types of record in PPS, see the “modify” entry under the various section of this help guide, for example Invoices – Modify, Appointments – Modify, etc. Options
PPS has a screen on the PPS Tools menu called Options. This screen can be used to set up a wide variety of system settings that affect the way that PPS works. You can make your changes to these areas and press the OK or Apply button to save your changes. The Options screen has four tabs along the top: General, Custom Client Fields, Set Up Client Contacts, and Clinical Notes. See the entries under each of these sections for more details, for example Options – General. PPS
PPS is the acronym for “Private Practice Software”. Refresh
See: Client Log - Refresh; Appointments Diary - Refresh; Daily Appointments List - Refresh; Accounts Screen - Refresh Select
A term used when you choose something on the screen. Some PPS screens have a <Select> button, this normally means that you pick an option, or entry in a list, then click the <Select> button. This will “select” your chosen entry and proceed to the next screen, or return to the previous screen with your chosen entry selected. Suppliers
PPS Expense is an additional PPS Module that allows you to record details of practice expenditure. As part of these records, you can also set up your list of suppliers. Suppliers are also optionally used when setting up your standard Stock Items. To set up your list of suppliers, you can either enter a new supplier as you are entering a new expense record for a supplier you have not used before, or you can set up suppliers by selecting from the PPS Menu: Tools – Look up Tables, and selecting “Supplier” from the Accounts Tables section.
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