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Setting up your company file
Overview
Create a company file
Set up accounts
Setting up accounts
Enter account opening balances
Set up preferences
Set a password for the Administrator user ID
Advanced setup
Overview
Set up sales
Set up purchases
Set up payroll
Do an initial bank reconciliation
Task 1: Identify uncleared withdrawals and deposits
Task 2: Record uncleared withdrawals and deposits
Task 3: Reconcile
Create item records
Enter stock opening balances
Set up a Web Store
Web Store Gift Cards
Manage Mobile Application
Manage AccountEdge Cloud
Banking
Receiving money
Preparing a bank deposit
Spending money
Entering transactions in the Bank Register window
Transferring money between accounts
Tracking petty cash expenses
Reconciling your bank accounts
Undoing an account reconciliation
Importing statements
Recording miscellaneous transactions
Credit card transactions
Analysing your cash flow
Sales
Creating a customer card
Entering sales
Task 1: Enter information about the customer
Task 2: Choose the type of sale
Task 3: Enter the items or services you are selling
Task 4: Enter additional information about the sale
Task 5: Complete the sale
Adding and deleting transaction lines, subtotals and headers in sales transactions
Recording sales with insufficient on-hand item quantities
Allow negative on-hand quantities and values
Build, buy or backorder items
Changing the status of a sale
Reviewing your sales information
Receiving payments
Printing payment receipts
Credit control
Credit limits
Credit holds
Finance charges paid by customers
Creating customer credits
Settling credit notes
Dealing with a supplier who is also a customer
Accounting for bad debts
Progress Billing
Process Web Orders
Manage Escrows & Trusts
Commission Tracking
Purchases
Creating a supplier card
Entering purchases
Entering a purchase transaction
Task 1: Enter information about the supplier
Task 2: Choose the type of purchase
Task 3: Enter the items or services you are purchasing
Task 4: Enter additional information about the purchase
Task 5: Complete the purchase
Adding lines, subtotals and headers to purchases
Receiving items without a supplier invoice
Setting up an accrual account for items received without a supplier invoice
Recording items received without a supplier invoice
Creating a purchase order from a sale
Changing the status of a purchase
Reviewing your purchase information
Paying suppliers
Creating supplier debits
Settling supplier debits
Adding finance charges paid to suppliers
Paying your employees
Payroll setup tasks
Creating payroll categories
Wages Information window
Entitlements Information window
Deduction Information window
Employer Expense Information window
Editing payroll categories
Creating employee cards
Entering employee payroll information
Timesheets
Delete timesheet entries
View timesheet reports
Processing your payroll
Task 1: Select the pay period
Task 2: Include employee timesheets
Task 3: Select and edit employee pay
Task 4: Record the employee paycheques
Task 5: Process payments
Task 6: Print payroll earnings
Task 7: Print/email pay slips
RTI Full Payment Submission
Employer Payment Summary
Employment Allowance
HMRC Compliance changes
Payroll liabilities
Processing termination payments
Task 1: Determine any outstanding entitlements
Task 2: [Optional] Create payroll categories for termination payments
Task 3: Process a paycheque for the final pay
Task 4: Terminate the employee in the Card File
Task 5: Print the employee’s P45
Reviewing payroll information
Viewing pay history
Viewing an employee’s entitlement balances
Analysing payroll
Reviewing payroll liabilities
Earlier Year Update
Task 1: Select employees
Task 2: Enter company information
Task 3: Print Report
Task 4: Submit
Preparing and filing payroll tax forms
Enrolling in PAYE Online for Employers
Preparing and printing year-end tax forms
Preparing an amended return
Submitting test data before e-filing
Additional information about completing year-end tax forms
Billing for time
About the time billing feature
Setting time billing preferences
Setting billing rates
Creating activities
Creating activity slips
Creating multiple activity slips
Reviewing and changing activity slips
Creating time billing invoices
Work in progress
Billing Rate Levels
Stock
Creating items
Average Cost, Last Cost and Standard Cost
Creating Item Variations
Making stock adjustments
Stock adjustment examples
Multiple stock locations
Recording stock movements between locations
Building items
Auto-building items
Count stock
Reviewing your stock information
Setting item prices
Customising stock
Creating custom price levels
Creating custom lists
Custom lists and stock reports
Creating brands list
Brands list and stock reports
Weight
Creating custom fields
Creating tags list
Tag list and inventory reports
Web Store Sync items
Track Serial Numbers
Track Warranties
International transactions
About the multiple-currency feature
Setting up multiple currencies
Task 1: Select the multiple currency option
Task 2: Set up records for foreign currencies
Task 3: Create accounts to track foreign-currency transactions
Task 4: Assign accounts to foreign currencies
Task 5: Assign appropriate currencies to foreign customers and suppliers
Exchange rates
Tracking currency gains and losses
Tracking realised currency gains and losses
Unrealised currency gains and losses
Miscellaneous transactions
Transferring funds to a foreign account
Entering foreign-currency transactions in a local account
Reconciling accounts containing foreign transactions
Reporting VAT
Setting up VAT codes
VAT reports
Accrual and cash reporting
VAT Summary and VAT Summary – Cash reports
VAT Detail, VAT Detail – Cash reports
VAT Return and VAT Return – Cash reports
EC sales
Reporting EC sales
EC purchases
Reporting EC purchases
VAT Return, VAT Return – Cash reports
Lists
Adding a record
Adding records using Easy-Add
Finding a record
Changing a record
Inactivating or reactivating a record
Deleting a record
Combining records
Combining Cards
Combining accounts
Combining items
Tracking Mileage
Company vehicles list
Mileage Rates
Mileage Slips
Document Manager
Reports
Producing reports
Printing report batches
Customising reports
Task 1: Select the data to be printed
Task 2: Specify the required fields
Task 3: Select finishing options
Task 4: Change the report format
Task 5: Print the report
Task 6: Save the report
Changing the default fonts on reports
Transactions
Finding a transaction
Changing or deleting a transaction
Changing a transaction
Deleting a transaction
Reversing a transaction
Recurring transactions
Setting up recurring transactions
Recording recurring transactions
Responding to reminders for recurring transactions
Create copy of a transaction
Publishing to iCal
Publishing an invoice or purchase to iCal
Publishing a recurring transaction to iCal
Publishing a reminder log to iCal
Forms
Finding forms
Sending forms
Sending forms immediately
Sending forms in a batch
Advanced filters
Customising forms
Task 1: Display the form
Task 2: Set up form properties
Task 3: Adding and editing elements
Task 4: Preview the customised form
Task 5: Save the customised form
Task 6: Print the customised form
Changing the default fonts on forms
Adding and editing elements
Adding and editing data and label elements
Adding and editing graphic elements
Editing all elements with common commands
Contact management
Creating a card
Keeping in touch with your contacts
Personalised letters
Mailing labels
Reminder log
More ways to keep in touch
Grouping your contacts
Identifiers
Custom lists
Synchronising cards with Mac Address Book cards
Deleting cards
Resetting the synchronisation
Customising cards
Card identification codes
Card pictures
Reviewing your contact information
Financial control
Tracking financial information
Accounts
Categories
Jobs
Departments
Tracking reimbursable expenses
Task 1: Set up a job
Task 2: Assign expenses to the job
Task 3: Bill the customer
Changing the status of a reimbursable expense
Budgets
Entering budget amounts
Budget Shortcuts window
Auditing your records
Company Data Auditor
Audit trail tracking system
Reviewing financial information
End-of-period procedures
Month-end procedures
Task 1: Run the Company Data Auditor
Task 2: Review reports
Task 3: Send customer statements
Task 4: Record depreciation
Task 5: Lodge VAT returns
Task 6: Pay PAYE and NIC that is due
Task 7: Lock periods
Starting a new financial year
Task 1: Complete month-end tasks
Task 2: Perform a stocktake
Task 3: Provide information to your accountant
Task 4: Enter end-of-year adjustments
Task 5: Back up your company file
Task 6: Start a new financial year
Task 7: Optimise and verify your company file
Starting a new payroll year
Task 1: Process the last paycheques for the year
Task 2: Print payroll reports
Task 3: Prepare and submit payroll tax forms
Task 4: Back up your company file
Task 5: Start a new payroll year
Task 6: Optimise and verify your company file
Managing user accounts and company files
Managing user accounts
Backing up and restoring company files
Servicing your company file
Checking your company file for errors
Optimising your company file
Purging information that is no longer needed
Troubleshooting file-locking problems
Alert messages—company file
Alert messages—transactions
Importing and exporting data
Exporting data
Importing data
Managing import and export records
AppleScripts
Networking company files
Preparing company files for multiple users
Setting up the network hardware
Setting up a company file folder on a Mac OS X host
Accessing the shared company file from Mac OS X workstations
Glossary
Index
Set up accounts
Overview
Accounts provide a means for grouping similar transactions. For example, if your business pays rent for the use of its premises, you would create a rent account and then allocate all rent payments to that account.
The accounts you use for your business are grouped in an accounts list.
note :
Do you need to complete this task?
If your accountant has provided you with a company file, this task may have been completed for you. In this case, go to
‘Enter account opening balances’
.
When you created your company file, you selected a default accounts list to start with. This list may already have the accounts you need. If not, you can change the list to suit your needs. If you are unsure, ask your accountant which accounts you should create, edit or delete.
If you selected to import a list of accounts, you should import this list now. See
‘Importing data’
.
Account numbers
Each account is identified by a unique five digit number. The first digit indicates the account’s classification (for example, accounts starting with 1 are asset accounts). The remaining four digits determine its location within the classification. The lower the number, the higher up in the list it appears. For example, account 1-1100 appears above 1-1200.
Account classifications and types
The accounts list groups accounts into eight classifications—Assets, Liabilities, Capital, Income, Cost of Sales, Expenses, Other Income and Other Expenses. Within each account classification there is at least one account type.
Account classifications and types are described in the following table.
Classification
Type
Description
Asset
(1-xxxx)
Bank
Money in the bank, for example, in a cheque or savings account.
Accounts Receivable
Money owed to you by your customers.
Other Current Asset
Assets that, if required, can be turned into cash within a year. These may include your term deposits.
Fixed Asset
Assets which have a long life, for example, buildings, cars and computers. Fixed assets are usually depreciated.
Other Asset
Other assets you own such as loans made to others and goodwill.
Liability
(2-xxxx)
Credit Card
Repayments required to service credit card debt.
Accounts Payable
Money owed by you to your suppliers.
Other Current Liability
Money owed by you that is due in less than a year, for example, GST.
Long Term Liability
Money owed by you that is due in more than one year, for example, a business loan.
Other Liability
Other money you owe.
Capital
(3-xxxx)
Capital
The business’s net worth, that is, its assets minus its liabilities. Common capital accounts are current year earnings, retained earnings and shareholders’ capital.
Income
(4-xxxx)
Income
Revenue from the sale of goods and services.
Cost of Sales
(5-xxxx)
Cost of Sales
The direct cost of selling your goods and providing services, for example, purchase costs and freight charges.
Expense
(6-xxxx)
Expense
The day-to-day expenses of running your business, for example, utility bills, employee wages and cleaning.
Other Income
(8-xxxx)
Other Income
Other revenue, for example, interest earned on savings and dividends paid from shares.
Other Expense
(9-xxxx)
Other Expense
Other expenses, for example, interest charged.
Header and detail accounts
Your accounts list consists of detail accounts (the accounts to which you allocate transactions) and header accounts. Header accounts group related detail accounts to help you organise your accounts list.
For example, you could group your telephone, electricity and gas expense accounts using a Utilities header account. This makes it easier for you to locate the utility expense accounts in the accounts list and to see your combined utility expenses.
You group accounts by indenting the detail accounts located directly below a header account.
Note that:
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You cannot allocate transactions to a header account.
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The balance of a header account is the sum of the detail accounts indented directly below it.
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You can create up to three header account levels as shown in the example above.
Related Topics
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Setting up accounts
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Enter account opening balances
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Budgets
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Tracking financial information
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