Lighting the way with information for Customs Brokers

This comprehensive, full-featured module includes accounting for receivables, payables, cash receipts and disbursements, as well as General Ledger posting and journalizing. It uses entry summary and cash disbursement data, as well as data from other data bases, to prepare invoices and payments. It also gives you the flexibility of hand-entering information, whenever you need to. Plus the Lighthouse system lets you print reports and post to the General Ledger after the end of an accounting period-you can avoid end-of-the-month work crushes.

(To Summary)
Save time and money With a Lighthouse system's many automatic features, you can save time and eliminate errors caused by duplicate handling of information and manual calculations. For example, disbursements for clients are calculated automatically from entry file data. Then invoices are prepared automatically from 7501 data, disbursement checks, and client fee data stored in a system database. Invoices are automatically posted to Accounts Receivable.

Payables are automatically prepared from 7501 data, and automatically get scheduled for client billing to prevent unbilled disbursements. The ABI Daily Statement also serves as the basis for producing payments to Customs and updating client files for payments.

Finally, the General Ledger portion of the module is fully integrated with Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable for automatic updating of General Ledger accounts from the source journals.

Manage your business well With the Lighthouse system you'll get all the reports you need to stay in control of your business. There are customer deposit and disbursement analysis reports to ensure disbursement checks don't go unbilled. There are aging reports and customer statements to help you stay on top of receivables and target delinquent accounts. There are system features and reports to ensure you don't overextend credit; and, there are reports to help you maintain credibility with your credit sources. And customer revenue analyses keep you up-to-date about client profitability, helping you allocate effort and resources where they are most needed.

The system's comprehensive payables features and reports provide you with the tools for superior cash management. You'll make the best use of your money, while maintaining good relations with your vendors.

Finally, the General Ledger portion of the module generates a complete set of financial reports with thorough supporting data for a variety of management analyses.

     Summary of Features (partial list)
Cash Disbursements
  • Data for duty disbursements provided automatically from entry file-or by operator, as needed
  • Checks can pay for one or several entry files or vendor invoices
  • Checks can be cancelled or reissued, as needed
  • Clients may be restricted so that checks are not prepared for their shipments
  • ABI Daily Statement serves as basis for producing payments and updating client files for invoices; pay statement by check or electronic funds transfer
  • 12 cash disbursement reports; 8 customer billing/disbursement reconciliation reports
Accounts Receivable
  • Invoices prepared automatically from 7501, disbursement checks, and stored fee information-or by operator, as needed
  • Automatic posting to Accounts Receivable
  • Manage delinquency with automatic calculation of payment-due dates, and Aged Trial Balance report that includes dates clients promise to pay
  • Record of all billings from import/export fees, and surface and air, automatically printed
  • Reconciles duty and freight disbursements to billings
  • Provides Customer Revenue Analysis reports
  • Record of customer payments and miscellaneous cash receipts
  • Optional preparation of bank deposit detail
  • Monitoring of NSF payments
  • More than a dozen invoicing reports; 5 cash receipts reports; 12 Accounts Receivable reports
Accounts Payable
  • Check writing from 7501 data, selective by customer checks; checks automatically scheduled for Accounts Receivable billing
  • Check writing from general Accounts Payable
  • Automatic selection of past due and current payable items
  • Aging status of balances owed to each vendor
  • Cash Requirements Forecast helps you plan cash needs
General Ledger
  • Integrated with Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable
  • 10 reports, including General Ledger Detail, General Ledger Summary, Journal Entry Registers, by source of journal, Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss (income) Statements (by division or entire company)

To Contact Us

 Phone     760/789-7572
Email     lbennett@lighthouse-sys.com    

 Lighthouse Computer Systems, Inc.,
23425 Mountain Peak Pl, Ramona, CA. 92065
Return to main page
  ©1987-2014 Lighthouse Computer Systems,Inc.      The Lighthouse logo is a registered trademark of Lighthouse Computer Systems,Inc.     Printed in U.S.A.