Cougar Mountain Training

Basic Training:                                                                                   

This class will help to teach how to enter information into the accounting software.  Bring your laptop with Cougar Mountain installed.  Once you have registered you will receive a more detailed agenda and training materials.  Please email me directly with questions. 

**Next round of Cougar Mountain Classes are to be announced. Be watching for fiscal year-end work days.

To register contact Emily Ladewig, cmsupport@iastate.edu.  

Webinar/Connect Training Sessions:

There is no need to register and they will be archived on the Extension Finance, Cougar Mountain website for future viewing.

More are to come on the following topics:

• Published Report - How to Edit
• Wage Hour Timesheet - How to be Set-Up/ How to Utilize

https://connect.extension.iastate.edu/cgrmountain

Cougar Mountain Support

Auditor - State of Iowa - Letter of Support

• Memorandum of Agreement CM Support

New

• Extension Council Reimbursement Form 05-10-2012

Adobe Connect

• Refunds - Issued and Received, How to Receipt Income against an Expense Account and How to Record an Expense Against a Revenue Account 03-16-2012 (17:28)

  https://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p50fbm2fhx2/

• Month-End Balancing - How to use the New Balancing Spreadsheet and Instructions 03-20-2012 (42:45) https://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p41or19rgua/

• Past Adobe Connect Sessions
• Notes for Adobe Connect Session 02-19-2009
• Documents to Accompany Adobe Connect 02-19-2009
• Adobe Connect Agenda 03-19-2009
• Adobe Connect  09-17-2009

User's Guides/How To

• Remote Desktop Installation Instructions 08-08-2011 
• Accessing Cougar Mountain & Outside Reports 01-26-2011
• Update Posting Path in Cougar Mountain 02-09-2011
• Changing Your Cougar Mountain Password 02-09-2011
• Check and Envelope Information
• Creating PDF Reports 02-11-2011
• Indirect Cost Reporting Information 07-28-2008 
• When to Receipt Income Against Expense Account 03-08-2012
• Guide for Endowment Funds 01-28-2009
• Filling Out Form W-9 03-09-2012
• Iowa Workforce Development Filing Information 11-15-2011
• Cumulative Carryover - Where do the Numbers Come From 04-30-2012
• Shared Employee Services Across Counties 05-24-2012

Monthly Reconciliation

• Revised Monthly Balancing Spreadsheet Instructions 05-01-2012
• Revised Monthly Balancing Spreadsheet 03-26-2012 
• Monthly Reconciliation Checklist to be used until 06-30-2012

Fiscal Year-End (FY12)

• Checklist for Bookkeepers for May - 04-30-2012
• Checklist for Program Specialists - 04-30-2012 
• Sample Transaction Report 05-14-2012
• Checklist for Bookkeepers for June - 04-30-2012
• Schedule of Employee Data, to be completed by Bookkeeper after 06-30-2012 - 04-30-2012
• Quick Guide for Entering Beginning Balances for (Outside) Reports 05-01-12

Calendar Year-End

• Helpful Hints for filing W-2's, W-3, 1099-MISC's & 1096, 12-30-2011
• Connect Session - Filing 1099-MISC's & 1096 (3:56), 12-07-2011
• Connect Session - Filing W-2's & W-3 (5:20), 12-07-2011
• W-2's/W-3 Instructions 12-27-2011
• 1099-MISC's/1096 Instructions 12-30-2011
• 2012 Payroll Tax Update 01-03-2012
• Closing 2011 Payroll 04-02-2012

**Modules/Quick Guides**