New Course from ADP Helps CPAs Better Serve Auto and Truck Retailers
28 October 1999
New Course from ADP Helps CPAs Better Serve Auto and Truck Retailers
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill.--Oct. 27, 1999--The Dealer Services Group of ADP(R), Inc., announced today at the AICPA Convention in Las Vegas a new level of comprehensive training for CPA consultants doing business in the vehicle retail industry.ADP's Advanced Consultant Class Level 2 helps CPAs maximize the accounting and financial reporting capabilities of the ADP business systems used in more than 18,000 car and truck dealers worldwide. The course is the result of collaboration between ADP and members of its CPA/Consultant Partnership Program, and is designed to enable consultants to provide best-in-class service to auto and truck dealerships. More than 15 CPA firms specializing in auto and truck retailing have participated in program courses.
The three-day Advanced Consultant Class Level 2 program includes lecture, discussion, exercises and study. It focuses on helping CPAs understand, use, and consult on ADP business system financial programs, and covers:
| -- | Identifying file structures and file hierarchies |
| -- | Building and understanding Dictionary (DICT) terms and their use |
| -- | Building complex DICT terms, defining conversions and correlations, codes and formats |
| -- | Building English statements, formatting reports, and uses of special English verbs, and |
| -- | Using report generators. |
Dealerships benefit from ADP's CPA/Consultant Partnership program, in which ADP and CPAs work collaboratively to provide solutions tailored for each dealership.
ADP Dealer Services Group is the leading provider of integrated computing solutions to more than 18,000 auto and truck manufacturers and dealers throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and Latin America. The Dealer Services Group is the third largest business unit of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. . ADP, with more than $5 billion in annual revenue and more than 450,000 clients, is one of the largest independent computing services firms in the world.