General ledger and adjustments

Purpose

  • Read this company’s headline numbers, post a balanced journal, repeat a document on a schedule, pay outstanding accruals, and depreciate fixed assets.
  • Screen: General Ledger.
  • Sales bills, purchase bills, and bank vouchers stay on their own menus. Use this part when the job is the ledger itself.

Topics in this part


Menu path

  • General Ledger → Dashboard.
  • General Ledger → Journal Entry, and Journal of Transactions.
  • General Ledger → Recurring Transaction. Hidden until the role has recurr_new.
  • General Ledger → Accrual Listing.
  • General Ledger → Fixed Assets Management → Asset Type, Fixed Assets, Depreciation Journal, Depreciation Report.

Which screen to use

  • See how the company is doing. Dashboard.
  • Accrual, prepayment, drawings, dividend, or another ledger-only correction. Journal Entry.
  • The same journal, invoice, or cash-book voucher every month. Recurring Transaction.
  • See what is still outstanding on an accrual account, or pay accrued expenses. Accrual Listing.
  • Name the asset and set how it depreciates. Fixed Assets, after Asset Type.
  • Post this month’s depreciation for the whole register. Depreciation Journal.
  • Customer still owes you, or paid an invoice. Sales Invoice or Receipt.
  • Supplier bill, or you paid one. Purchase Invoice or Payment.
  • Money in or out of the bank, with no customer or supplier invoice. Cash book payment or receipt.
  • Staff claim accrued now, paid later. Expenses, then Expense Payment.
  • Staff salaries, or a vehicle on hire purchase. Payroll and hire purchase, then register the asset if you will depreciate it.

Assistant

  • Profit this month, Who owes me, and Can I pay this answer from the books. They do not open the dashboard.
  • Record payroll, Hire purchase, and Journal / adjustment post a journal after you confirm the accounts.
  • Fixed asset purchase — type it. There is no empty-screen chip. Register the asset afterwards if you will run depreciation.
  • There is no wizard for the dashboard, the journal listing, recurring, the accrual listing, asset type, the register, or Run Depreciation. Ask “how to…” for those guides.
  • Do not type “how to record payroll” if you want the live payroll wizard. Use the chip Record payroll.

Before you start

  • Accounts exist on the chart of accounts, including bank, accrual, and fixed-asset accounts when you need them.
  • New work is dated on or after System Conversion Date. See Company.
  • Document numbers exist for journals and payments. Leave the number blank for Next No.