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Setting up your company file
Overview Create a company file Easy setup assistant Set up preferences Set a password for the company file Set up accounts Enter account opening balances
Advanced setup
Overview Set up sales Do an initial bank reconciliation
Task 1: Identify uncleared withdrawals and deposits Task 2: Record uncleared withdrawals and deposits Task 3: Reconcile
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Reconciling your bank accounts
Undoing an account reconciliation
Importing statements Analyzing your cash flow [Windows only]
Sales
Creating a Lead Card 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
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Transactions
Finding a transaction Changing or deleting a transaction
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Create copy of a transaction Publishing to iCal
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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 Frequently used reports Overview of report details
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Finding forms Sending forms
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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
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Contact management
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Reviewing your contact information
Financial control
Tracking financial information
Accounts Jobs Task 1: Set up a job Task 2: Assign expenses to the job Task 3: Bill the customer
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: Lock periods
Starting a new fiscal year
Task 1: Complete month-end tasks Task 2: Provide information to your accountant Task 3: Enter end-of-year adjustments Task 4: Back up your company file Task 5: Start a new fiscal year Task 6: Optimize and verify your company file
Managing user accounts and company files
Managing Master Password Backing up and restoring 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 Changing company file date
Troubleshooting your company file
Alert messages—company file Alert messages—transactions
Importing and exporting data
Exporting data Importing data
Importing Quicken (QIF) files
Managing import and export records
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Glossary Index
Set up accounts
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 or partner 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, Equity, Income, Cost of Sales, Expenses, Other Income, and Other Expenses. Within each account classification there is at least one account type.
Click to display a table of account classifications and types
Header 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 organize 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.
To create an account
To group detail accounts with a header account
Next task: Enter account opening balances
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Budgets
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Tracking financial information
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