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AccountEdge single-user
Business Insights
Card file Action menu
Google Maps
Print preview forms
Prior year reporting of payroll information
Tax Table Loading
New-look windows
New-look Welcome Window
Open Last Company file
Enhanced list searching
Move Inventory between multiple Locations
Allow sale of insufficient quantities
New form and report options
New form customization tools
Save more filter settings for customized reports
New cheques and forms
New security feature
Set Lock Periods and Audit Trail
Import and export enhancements
Company Data Auditor enhancement
Apple has changed .Mac to MobileMe
Updated online help
Publish to iCal
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Where to start
Explore your software
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Business calendar
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Setting up your company file
Overview
Create a company file
Set 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 your inventory opening balances
Banking
Receiving money
Bank deposits
Spending money
Entering transactions in the Bank Register window
Transferring money between accounts
Tracking petty cash expenses
Recording miscellaneous transactions
Credit card transactions
Reconciling your bank accounts
Undoing an account reconciliation
Importing statements
Analyzing 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
Build, buy, or backorder items
Allow negative on-hand item quantities
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
Customer credits
Settling credits
Dealing with a vendor who is also a customer
Accounting for bad debts
Purchases
Creating a vendor card
Entering purchases
Entering a purchase transaction
Task 1: Enter information about the vendor
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 and deleting lines, subtotals, and headers to purchases
Receiving items without a bill
Set up an accrual account for items received without a vendor bill
Record items received without a bill
Creating a purchase order from a sale
Changing the status of a purchase
Reviewing your purchases information
Paying bills
Preparing electronic payments
Recording and settling vendor debits
Settling vendor debits
Adding finance charges paid to vendors
Paying your employees
Creating payroll categories
Wages Information window
Accrual Information window
Deduction Information window
Employer Expense Information window
Editing payroll categories
Creating employee cards
Setting up cards for 1099 vendors
Entering employee payroll information
Timesheets
Delete timesheet entries
View timesheet reports
Processing your payroll
Task 1: Select the pay period
Task 2: [Optional] Include employee timesheets
Task 3: Select and edit paycheques
Task 4: Record employee pays
Task 5: Process payments
Task 6: Print/email pay stubs
Payroll liabilities
Reviewing payroll information
Viewing pay history
Viewing prior year payroll reports
Viewing an employee’s accrual balances
Analyzing payroll
Reviewing payroll liabilities
Payroll 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
Inventory
Creating items
Average Cost, Last Cost, and Standard Cost
Making inventory adjustments
Inventory locations
Recording inventory movements between locations
Building items
Auto-building items
Counting inventory
Reviewing your inventory information
Setting item prices
Customizing inventory
Creating custom price levels
Creating custom lists
Custom lists and inventory reports
Creating custom fields
Lists
Adding a record
Adding records using Easy-Add
Setting up tax codes
Finding a record
Changing a record
Inactivating or reactivating a record
Deleting a record
Combining records
Combining cards
Combining accounts
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
Reminders
Publishing to iCal
Publishing an invoice or purchase to iCal
Publishing a recurring transaction to iCal
Publishing a reminder log to iCal
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 currencies to foreign customers and vendors
Exchange rates
Tracking currency gains and losses
Tracking realized currency gains and losses
Unrealized currency gains and losses
Miscellaneous transactions
Reports
Producing reports
Printing report batches
Customizing reports
Task 1: Select the data to be printed
Task 2: Select 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
Reports list
Frequently used reports
Overview of report details
Forms
Finding forms
Sending forms
Sending forms when you record a transaction
Sending forms in a batch
Advanced filters
Customizing forms
Task 1: Display the form
Task 2: Set up form properties
Task 3: Add and edit elements
Task 4: Preview the customized form
Task 5: Save the customized form
Task 6: Print the customized 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
Personalized letters
Mailing labels
Reminder log
Other ways to keep in touch
Grouping your contacts
Identifiers
Custom lists
Synchronizing MYOB cards with Mac Address Book cards
Deleting cards
Resetting the synchronization
Customizing cards
Card identification codes
Card pictures
Reviewing your contact information
Financial control
Tracking financial information
Accounts
Categories
Jobs
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
Reviewing financial information
End-of-period procedures
Month-end procedures
Task 1: Run the Company Data Auditor
Task 2: Reconcile your bank accounts
Task 3: Review reports
Task 4: Send customer statements
Task 5: Record depreciation
Task 6: Pay payroll taxes
Task 7: Lock periods
Starting a new fiscal year
Task 1: Complete month-end tasks
Task 2: Perform an inventory count
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 fiscal year
Task 7: Optimize and verify your company file
Starting a new payroll year
Task 1: Process the last paycheques for the year
Task 2: Print year-end payroll forms
Task 3: Print vendor 1099 statements
Task 4: Print payroll reports
Task 5: Back up your company file
Task 6: Start a new payroll year
Task 7: Check that you have the latest tax tables
Task 8: Optimize and verify your company file
Managing user accounts and company files
Managing user accounts
Backing up and restoring company files
Confirming activated company files
Troubleshooting activated company files
Servicing your company file
Checking your company file for errors
Optimizing your company file
Purging information that is no longer needed
Troubleshooting file-locking problems
Special considerations for networked company files
Preferences in a network environment
Preventing data entry while generating reports
Storing custom reports on a network
Displaying up-to-date information
Improving performance
Troubleshooting your company file
Alert messages—company file
Alert messages—transactions
Importing and exporting data
Exporting data
Exporting to and importing from AccountantLink
Importing data
Importing Quicken (QIF) files
Managing import and export records
AppleScripts
Networking company files
Glossary
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