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- INDEX
-
- 1. POSTING TRANSACTIONS
- 2. RECONCILING YOUR BANK ACCOUNT
- 3. PRINTING A TRIAL BALANCE
- 4. PRINTING ACCOUNT ACTIVITY
- 5. PRINTING THE INCOME STATEMENT
- 6. PRINTING THE BALANCE SHEET
- 7. CLOSING A MONTH
- 8. BACKING UP DATA FILES
-
- 1. POSTING TRANSACTIONS
-
- Although you may enter your transactions for a
- particular month at any time, they are not
- reflected in your accounts until they are
- posted. Although, this may seem to be an
- unnecessary step, it will prove useful if, for
- example, you wish to write a check for the
- month of May and you have not finished working
- on your statements for the month of April. Be
- certain that all of the transactions for a
- particular month are posted prior to printing
- the Income and Balance sheet statements.
- Posting transactions will reflect the amounts
- of these transactions in the current month
- columns. Closing a month (see below) moves
- the amounts in the current months column into
- the previous months column and prepares your
- program for the next accounting month. Do not
- worry about posting a transaction twice. If
- you run the posting procedure more than once,
- there is no duplication of the posting of your
- transactions.
-
- 2. RECONCILING YOUR BANK ACCOUNT
-
- This procedure will enable you to reconcile
- your book balance in your bank account with
- the bank balance by marking all outstanding
- transactions.
-
- 3. PRINTING A TRIAL BALANCE
-
- This procedure will print out a trial balance.
- The use of this procedure is optional.
-
- 4. PRINT ACCOUNT ACTIVITY
-
- This is an optional procedure. It will print
- out a listing of all of your Account activity
- for the month grouped by Account number. It is
- useful if you wish to trace the activity in a
- particular account.
-
- 5. PRINTING THE INCOME STATEMENT
-
- This procedure will print the Income
- statement.
-
- 6. PRINTING THE BALANCE SHEET
-
- This procedure will print out the Balance
- sheet.
-
- 7. CLOSE MONTH
-
- After you have printed out your transaction
- journals, posted your transactions, and
- printed out your Income and Balance Sheet
- statements for a month, you should close the
- month in order to prepare for the next month.
- Closing will move the amounts in the current
- months columns to the previous months columns
- and add these amounts to the amounts already
- there.
-
- 8. BACKING UP DATA FILES
-
- You should have a regular procedure for
- backing up your data files. A good time to do
- so would be after closing the month. As a
- minimum you should back up the Acctfile.dat
- file, the Transaction file for the current
- year (Tran91.dat for example), and the latest
- months data files. Your latest months data
- files will have a file extension of Jan, Feb,
- etc. before closing, and 01, 02, etc. after
- closing. Any time the Vendcode.dat,
- Jrncode.dat, or the Depcode.dat files are
- modified, they should likewise be backed up.
- You may also use this back up procedure for
- examining a list of your data files. Just
- select the "Back Up Files" item from the menu
- and your files will be listed on the screen.
- Then instead of pressing the F10 key to
- complete the back up procedure, press the
- Escape key instead. You will be returned to
- the End of Month menu without completing the
- back up procedure.
-
- END.