Learning Path: Accountants and Bookkeepers

💡This path lists the topics for accountants and bookkeepers. Follow the Debtors' and Creditors' Clerks paths too, if you also do their work.

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1. The Ledger#

1. Ledger Posting: Which transactions post to the ledger, and when.
2. Ledger List Views: Describes the Ledger list view and its settings, with the buttons, filters and fields for each view.
3. General Ledger Accounts Tutorial: Shows how to view General Ledger Accounts and enter general expenses, general income and journal entries.
4. Trial Errors Tutorial: Shows how to check for trial errors and fix them so that the Trial Balance balances.
5. Update Read-Only Transactions Tutorial: Shows how to recognise read-only transactions and update them, including those protected by a password.

2. Banking#

1. Bank Imports Tutorial: Shows how to import bank data, post it to the ledger and allocate payments and receipts.
2. Bank Reconciliation Tutorial: Shows how to reconcile a bank account, fix unreconciled entries and print or email the reconciliation.

3. Tax#

1. VAT Types Explained: Describes the VAT Types and when to charge or claim VAT on your transactions.
2. VAT Reconciliation Tutorial: Shows how to create, verify, edit and print a VAT Reconciliation for your VAT Return.
3. VAT Rate Change: Sets out the steps to change the VAT rate, including updating prices, services and transactions.

4. Inventory Accounting#

1. Inventory Integration and Valuation: Compares perpetual and periodic inventory systems and the weighted average and last price valuation methods.
2. Perpetual Inventory: Describes the Perpetual and Periodic models for inventory accounting and shows how to set up the Perpetual model.
3. Periodic Accounting Tutorial: Shows how to complete a month in periodic accounting, including accruals, prepayments and cost of sales transfers.
4. Cost of Sales Report: Describes the Cost of Sales report, which tracks job costs and profits by transaction, customer or item.

5. Month-End and Year-End#

1. Trial Balance Tutorial: Shows how to view, verify, print and email a Trial Balance.
2. Statement of Profit or Loss Tutorial: Shows how to view, compare with budgets, print and email a Statement of Profit or Loss.
3. Statement of Financial Position Tutorial: Shows how to view, filter, print and email a Statement of Financial Position.
4. Accounting Budgets Tutorial: Shows how to create, copy, edit and email budgets and compare budgeted with actual amounts.
5. Financial Close Off Tutorial: Shows how to set, amend or remove a Financial Close Off Date to close and open financial periods.

6. Other Transactions#

1. Payroll Transactions Tutorial: Shows how to enter payroll expenses and payroll payments, with or without confidentiality.
2. Multi-Currency Tutorial: Shows how to create Quotations, Customer Invoices and Supplier Invoices in a foreign currency.
3. Asset Register: Describes the Asset Register: the fixed assets with their cost, current and replacement values, and the access setting.