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    • Tracking Your Time (Time & Expense)
  • Paying Your Employees
    • Set Up Payroll Defaults and Standard Payroll Fields
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How Do I: General Ledger, Chart of Accounts, and Budgets

Set Up and Maintain

  • Initial decisions and getting started
  • Set up a chart of accounts for the first time
  • Set up account segments (Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher)
  • Add an account to an established chart of accounts
  • Delete an account from the chart of accounts
  • Change an account ID
  • Create a budget
  • Edit a budget
  • Set up a rounding account for financial statements
  • Enter G/L beginning balances
  • Add a new account while entering G/L beginning balances
  • Enter prior-period adjustments
  • Enter beginning transactions for first account reconciliation

Tasks

  • Record a General Journal entry
  • Enter a reversing General Journal entry
  • Reconcile an account (bank statement reconciliation)
  • Manually match imported bank records to Sage 50 transactions
  • Post journal entries to the General Ledger
  • Unpost journal entries from the General Ledger
  • Import a budget
  • Export budgets to Excel
  • Change accounting periods
  • Display G/L reports onscreen
  • Display a financial statement onscreen
  • Print a report or financial statement
  • Design financial statements
  • General Ledger year-end procedures
  • Close the fiscal year

Published: March 07, 2018
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