Cheops Showcase 2025 Agenda
Tuesday 13th May 2025 (AM) – Cheops/CSSP Updates
9:00am
SYDNEY FOUR SEASONS HOTEL
Registration
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Introduction & Company Update
Presenter: Marc Hemmett – CSSP Managing Director, JDM Technology Group
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JDM Technology Group – Update
Presenters: Jim/David/John McFarlane – JDM
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JDM Technology Group – New Technology
Presenter: Mike Aspinwall – JDM Chief Operating Officer
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Managed Timesheets & Time Portal
Presenter: Penny Adriaansen – Cheops Consultant
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QBCC/Project Trust Accounts
Presenter: Penny Adriaansen, Cheops Consultant
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eInvoicing – New Features
Presenters:
Ari Sitthidah, Cheops Consultant
Marc Hemmett, CSSP Managing Director
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Bank Feeds – New Features
Presenters:
Aimee Lee Plowright, Cheops Consultant
Lisa Woolley, Consultant
10:45am
MORNING TEA
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Cheops: Tips & Tricks
Presenters:
Evely Kanaris, Customer Service Manager
Lisa Woolley, Cheops Consultant
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SUBePay (SUBeAssess & SUBeClaims) – New Product
Presenters:
Peter Duff, CSSP Business Development Manager
Ari Sitthidah, Cheops Consultant
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Construction Estimating – New Product
Presenters:
Marc Hemmett, CSSP Managing Director
Graeme Bottrill, Cheops Consultant
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Mobile Functionality – New Product
Presenter: Marc Hemmett, CSSP Managing Director
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Cheops Pro: New Product
Presenter: Marc Hemmett, CSSP Managing Director
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New Apps
Presenter: Marc Hemmett, CSSP Managing Director
12:00pm
LUNCH
Tuesday 13th May 2025 (PM) – Training and Workshops
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Accounts & Projects Reports
Facilitators: Monica Bourke & Kelly Duncan
Learn what the top 5 Project reports and the top 5 Accounting reports in Cheops are so you can best manage these departments. Some reports are Word documents that can be printed or emailed and some are on screen drillable summary reports.
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Projects - Variation Management
Facilitators: Graeme Bottrill & Aimee Lee Plowright
Come along to see what features your team may not be using. We have seen some companies using excel to manage variations. Used correctly, there is no need to manage variations outside of Cheops, even potential variations. There are a lot of variation management functions ready to use. Register to improve your teams variation management and forecasting.
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Mobile: Time Portal & Managed Timesheets
Facilitators: Penny Adriaansen & Lisa Woolley
Collect time records from all staff via a simple customisable mobile app. Approve time records via Team Leader or Project. Option of Crew time records where a supervisor loads all their teams’ time sheets. Pay Master can view whole of company time records, highlighting any exceptions. Upload to Cheops pay roll without data entry. Pay staff and apply Project job cost. This is a great time saver for your payroll staff.
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SUBePay Bundle (SUBeAssess & SUBeClaims) - New Product
Facilitators: Ari Sitthidah & Peter Duff
Invite your Subcontractors to submit their project progress claims via a self service portal (SUBeClaims) directly into your Cheops system (SUBeAssess), for evaluation and approval. They can claim approved variations and can submit Subcontractor created variations and upload mandatory documentation. These cost effective Cheops programs give your project & accounts teams the cutting edge tools they need for high performance.
2:30pm
AFTERNOON TEA
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Projects - Forecasting and Cashflows
Facilitator: Graeme Bottrill & Aimee Lee Plowright
Forecasting is probably the most important financial management tool a construction company can have. Cheops has different methods of forecasting built in. Take a deeper look at the options available and how to utilise this vital tool to identify issues early and maximise profits. Keep your Project teams accountable.
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Cost Plus
Facilitators: Monica Bourke & Kelly Duncan
Learn how you can cut days off preparing a cost plus claim using this module. Editable item mark up as well as project default mark up. Supply your client with a full breakdown of all costs (approved subcontractor claims, approved invoices, labour) with all supporting documentation all generated via email from Cheops. Now supports Plant time sheets.
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Invoice Scanning Creditors & Credit Notes - New Features
Facilitators: Ari Sitthidah & Peter Duff
Cheops paperless invoice approval system has streamlined the Accounts Payable departments of around 170 Cheops clients. Learn how this module will improve visibility, help comply with State Security of Payment legislation & free up AP staff’s valuable time. This is CSSP’s best selling optional module.
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Smart Forms Bundle - New Features
Facilitators: Mark Panero & Marc Hemmett
Learn how to create your own mobile friendly forms to collect any data from site or office. This data can be displayed in tables or graphs in Cheops using Business Analytics and can be included in User Defined Reports. Can be used for site inductions, tool box talks, site diaries, incident reporting and much more.
Wednesday 14th May 2025 (AM) – Training and Workshops
9:00am
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Payroll: EOFY & Useful Functions
Facilitators: Evely Kanaris & Aimmee Lee Plowright
Work through all of end of year process including reconciliation, loading of new tax tables, update events, STP update events.
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User Defined Reports
Facilitators: Mark Panero & Lisa Woolley
In this session you will learn how Business Analytics User Defined Reports allows the user to create custom reports in the style and format of your design using Cheops data. Design a look and style of your choosing using MS Word tools. For example, produce your own Project Report or use Cheops ‘out of the box’ Project Report.
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GL Report Writer
Facilitators: Monica Bourke & Kelly Duncan
In this session you will learn how Business Analytics User Defined Reports allows the user to create custom reports in the style and format of your design using Cheops data. Design a look and style of your choosing using MS Word tools. For example, produce your own Project Report or use Cheops ‘out of the box’ Project Report.
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e-Invoicing
Facilitators: Ari Sitthidah & Peter Duff
eInvoicing will change the way businesses issue and receive invoices, & credit notes. Cheops Invoice Scanning product supports this new technology so pure data is received (no PDF) and approved by your standard workflow approvals. The improvement is you do not require OCR at all, and all invoice line items are completed inside Cheops. Attend this session to take a look into the future.
10:30am
MORNING TEA
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Alerting
Facilitators: Mark Panero & Ari Sitthidah
Learn how to get advised each time a business critical event has or is about to happen. Set up alert rules based on time, dollars, percent, dates, quality, event, expiry dates, exceptions, etc. Each time the pre-set conditions are met a single or group email will be sent. You can also schedule reports to be automatically run and emailed using this feature.
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Power BI OOTB Dashboards - New Product
Facilitators: Penny Adriaansen & Marc Hemmett
In this session you will learn how to interrogate Business Analytics app enquiries so you can display your data in a meaningful way to you using Power BI. Cheops BA makes data extraction and display in a Power BI report quite straight forward. This way you can combine and display data from different systems within your business. Take a look at CSSP developed ‘out of the box’ dashboards with multiple filters so you can drill down and view reports over time.
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Tips & Tricks
Facilitators: Evely Kanaris & Lisa Woolley
In this training session learn a vast array of Cheops tips and tricks from the experts. There are many small and time saving tips inbuilt that all users should know about. From using an on screen calculator, to altering reports on the fly. Whether you are a keyboard navigator or a mouse clicker, come along and learn some gems that will make your use of Cheops more enjoyable.
Studio 3
Projects - Forecasting & Cash Flows
Facilitators: Graeme Bottrill & Aimee Lee Plowright
Forecasting is probably the most important financial management tool a construction company can have. Cheops has different methods of forecasting built in. Take a deeper look at the options available and how to utilise this vital tool to identify issues early and maximise profits. Keep your Project teams accountable.
12:30pm
LUNCH
Wednesday 14th May 2025 (PM) – Training and Workshops
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Cheops Web - QBCC RTA & PTA
Facilitators: Penny Adriaansen & Aimee Lee Plowright
This is very topical and CSSP has done a lot of work to comply with the WA, NSW & QLD legislation. Although these jurisdictions have different legislative burdens, Cheops can be utilised so your company is compliant. In this session you will learn how to manage Project Trust and Retention Trust accounts, manage GST, manage compliance critical dates & produce specific reports and ledgers required by law.
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User Defined Reports
Facilitators: Mark Panero & Lisa Woolley
In this session you will learn how Business Analytics User Defined Reports allows the user to create custom reports in the style and format of your design using Cheops data. Design a look and style of your choosing using MS Word tools. For example, produce your own Project Report or use Cheops ‘out of the box’ Project Report.
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Payroll - EOFY & Useful Functions
Facilitator: Evely Kanaris
Go through all of end of year process including reconciliation, loading of new tax tables, update events. Preloading leave, preloading holidays, importing leave, importing personnel details. Awards maintenance, group multiple employees in pay classes. Pay history enquiries, very powerful report. Payroll web enquiries.
Studio 3
Cost Plus
Facilitators: Monica Bourke & Kelly Duncan
Learn how you can cut days off preparing a cost plus claim using this module. Editable item mark up as well as project default mark up. Supply your client with a full breakdown of all costs (approved subcontractor claims, approved invoices, labour) with all supporting documentation all generated via email from Cheops. Now supports Plant time sheets.
2:45pm
AFTERNOON TEA
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Menu Security
Facilitator: Mark Panero
CheopsWeb has customisable menu security. Learn how to configure menu security by role, by position or by user. Users will only have access to what management require them to have access to. This session will be important to CheopsWeb system administrators.
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Advanced Bank Reconciliation & Bank Feeds
Facilitators: Lisa Woolley & Aimee Lee Plowright
Import bank feeds into Cheops. Perform a reconciliation using the CheopsWeb interface, easily identifying discrepancies. This will be a great time saver for your accounts department.
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Mobile: Time Portal & Managed Timesheets
Facilitator: Penny Adriaansen
Collect time records from all staff via a simple customisable mobile app. Approve time records via Team Leader or Project. Option of Crew time records where a supervisor loads all their teams’ time sheets. Pay Master can view whole of company time records, highlighting any exceptions. Upload to Cheops pay roll without data entry. Pay staff and apply Project job cost. This is a great time saver for your payroll staff.
Studio 3
Invoice Scanning Creditors & Credit Notes - New Features
Facilitators: Ari Sitthidah & Peter Duff
Cheops paperless invoice approval system has streamlined the Accounts Payable departments of around 170 Cheops clients. Learn how this module will improve visibility, help comply with State Security of Payment legislation & free up AP staff’s valuable time. This is CSSP’s best selling optional module.
4:30pm
SHOWCASE END
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Secure your spot at the Cheops Showcase by registering online. Click on the button below and complete the subsequent form. The event is catered with refreshments and meals at all scheduled breaks as part of the event. Registrations close 25th April 2025.