New Features
Improved Bank Statement Import
Document Management
Retainers, Escrow and Trust Accounts
Change Orders
Notes on Sales and Purchases
Shipping Address on Professional Invoices
Expanded tax code field
Updated QST Tax Type
Print Prior Year T4’s and RL-1’s
Payroll Tax Table Loading ahead of time
Basic TD-1 Exemptions included on Cards
Direct Deposit and Electronic Vendor Payments
Record of Employment (ROE)
Updated Financial Statements
Password Protect Security Preferences
Reminding all users on recurring transactions
Batch Delete
Migration Assistant
FileConnect updated
Credit Card Processing
Quick Sale
Receive Payment on a Receivable
Introduction
Learn about your AccountEdge software
Manuals
Online help
Other resources
Where to start
Explore your AccountEdge software
Command centres
Sidebar
Action menu
Calendar (date entry)
Business calendar
Calculator
Zoom arrows
Search icons
Select columns
Mouse shortcuts
Shortcut keys
Default screen font
Spell-check
Setting up your company file
Overview
Create a company file
Easy setup assistant
Set up preferences
Set a password for the Administrator user ID
Set up accounts
Enter account opening balances
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
Set up Business Services
Activating Business Services
Set up Vendor Payments and Direct Deposits
Set up a Web Store
Manage Mobile App
Manage Time Tracker
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
Credit card payments using Merchant Account Service
Processing credit card payments using Merchant Account Service
Declined authorization
Timed-out authorization
Voiding Merchant Account Service credit card payments
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
Manage Retainers, Escrows & Trusts
Progress Billing
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
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: [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
Billing Rate Levels
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 brands list
Brands list and inventory reports
Weight
Creating custom fields
Creating tags list
Tag list and inventory reports
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
Tracking Mileage
Company vehicles list
Mileage Rates
Mileage Slips
Document Manager
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
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 AccountEdge cards with Mac Address Book cards
Deleting cards
Resetting the synchronization
Synchronizing AccountEdge cards with Microsoft Outlook contacts
Exporting your AccountEdge cards to your Outlook contacts
Importing your Outlook contacts to your AccountEdge cards
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: Run your last payroll
Task 2: Optimize and verify your company file
Task 3: Back up your company file
Task 4: Start a new payroll year
Task 5: Install product updates
Task 6: Run your first payroll
Task 7: Restore your backup
Task 8: Prepare year-end payroll forms
Task 9: Print payroll reports
Managing user accounts and company files
Managing user accounts
Backing up and restoring company files
Servicing your company file
Chequing your company file for errors
Optimizing your company file
Purging information that is no longer needed
Troubleshooting file-locking problems
Special considerations for networking 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
Alert messages—company file
Alert messages—transactions
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
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
Setting up a company-file folder on a Windows host
Accessing the shared company file from a Windows workstation
Glossary
Index
Graph tools
Using the graph toolbar
You can use the following tools to customize your graph.
Export Chart
Create an export file of the data in the graph you’re viewing.
Copy as Bitmap
Copy the graph you’re viewing as a bitmap graphic onto the Clipboard.
Copy as Data
Copy the data represented by the graph you’re viewing onto the Clipboard
Print
Print the graph you’re viewing. If you’re viewing a graph and its legend, you’ll print the legend and the graph.
Change Col
our
Change the colour of a portion of the graph you’re viewing. Select a colour from the palette that appears; then drag the colour from the Change Colour box to the portion of the graph you want to change. You can change the colour of any part of the graph you’re viewing, including the graph’s background and the legend’s background.
3D-2D
Toggle between two-dimensional and three-dimensional views of the graph.
Rotate
Open the 3D View Properties window, where you can choose a perspective on a three-dimensional graph. You can also add depth and shadow to a three-dimensional graph using this window. See
Displaying graphs
for more information about these features.
Z-Clustered Series
Add a Z-axis to a three-dimensional bar graph
Zoom
Hold down the button to drag a rectangle around the section of the graph you want to view in greater detail. Click the Zoom button again to return to normal view.
Show/Hide Legend
Show or hide the graph’s legend box.
Vertical Grid
Display a bar graph with a vertical grid.
Horizontal Grid
Display a bar graph with a horizontal grid.
Edit Titles
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Open the Titles window, where you can enter, edit or delete titles for the graph you’re viewing. Click the Apply button in the Titles window to apply your changes to the graph titles. Click OK in the Titles window to apply your changes to the graph titles and close the Titles window.
Change Text Fonts
Change the font characteristics of text in the graph window. Choose the text you want to change from the menu that appears, then change the font characteristics in the Font dialogue box and click OK.
Tools
By choosing commands from the Tools menu, you can show or hide the legend box, the Palette Bar, the Pattern Bar or the Data Editor.
Legend box
The legend box is a key that identifies the sections of the graph according to colour and pattern.
To show the legend box, click the Tools button and choose Legend from the Tools menu. You can also show and hide the legend box clicking the Show/Hide Legend button on the graph toolbar.
Palette Bar
The Palette Bar allows you to change the colour of a portion of the graph you’re viewing.
To show the Palette Bar, click the Tools button and choose Palette Bar from the Tools menu. Drag the colour from the Palette Bar to the portion of the graph you want to change. You can change the colour of any part of the graph you’re viewing, including the graph and legend backgrounds. Use the arrows at the left of the Palette Bar to scroll through the available colours You can double-click a colour on the Palette Bar to open the Colour window, where you can define custom colour.
Pattern Bar
The Pattern Bar allows you to add a pattern to the graph you’re viewing.
To show the Pattern Bar, click the Tools button and choose Pattern Bar from the Tools menu. Drag the pattern from the Pattern Bar to the portion of the graph you want to change. To edit a pattern, double-click the pattern in the Pattern Bar. Click a pixel in the Pattern Bitmap section of the window to activate or deactivate it. When you’re finished, click OK.
Data Editor
The Data Editor allows you to change the information represented by the graph you’re viewing so you can plot projected goals, predicted sales, and so on.
To show the Data Editor, click the Tools button and choose Data Editor. You can change amounts in the graph and the legend names. When you’re satisfied with your changes, click the Tools button and choose Data Editor to return to graph view. Any changes you make to the graph using the Data Editor won’t affect your company file.
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