Tuesday, 26 March 2013

maintnance af charts of account



Maintaining charts of accounts at Peachtree
o   To start the process of maintaining charts of account first of all you need to login to your company, in which you are going to create charts of accounts.
o   After starting your company you will find a main page screen.
o   Now in the menu bar you will find “Maintain” option. Click this option a drop down menu will appear.
o   In this drop down menu you will find “charts of account” at fourth point. Click at this option. A new window will appear in front of main page.
o   In this window you will find some rows and columns with blank spaces.
Main points in this window are,
·                Account ID
·                Description
·                Account type
o   In account ID space give a valid account ID.
o   You must select this ID by giving a margin of future accounts of same type.
o   In description type the name or title of that account.
o   And in account type choose the type of that specific account.
o   Peachtree define some types of accounts and you must choose one of these account types.
o   By default it will be cash.
o   After defining these three things press [Alt+ S].
o   Your account will be saved and curser will transfer to account ID column now you can add another account here.
List of charts of accounts
o   In the same window in front of Account ID there is a small magnify glass. Click on this glass and a drop down menu will appear in which all the accounts are written that you have just save.
o   Click at each account to check about its detail.
Deleting an account
o   Double click on a specific account. It will open again in previous window.
o   And there is delete buttons in menu press this button and confirm the warning.
o   Account will be deleted.
Changing ID of a account
o   In magnify glass list double click on that account you want to change ID.
o   This will open in charts of accounts window.
o   At top there is button with key, this is change id button. Click it
o   In this window enter new ID for that account and press ok.
Brief charts of account statement
o   To view brief charts of account statement, go to the main page and from the top menu find “Reports” option and click it, a drop down menu will appear.
o   Click on General Ledger’s option. A new window will appear.
o   In report list there is an option of charts of accounts.  Click on this option and all of charts of accounts will be in front of you.
o   This is the list of all charts of accounts that you maintain earlier.
o   In this window you will find a column of Active.
o   Its mean that this account is available to add transactions.
o   You can inactivate this account by clicking on inactivate check box that is in charts of accounts maintain window.
o   You can also take a print out of this window for your use.


How to Maintain Beginning Balances:

After saving all the charts of accounts. Open Maintain and than Click on forth option “Charts of Accounts”.
A window will appear displayed by the name “Maintain Charts of Accounts”. Click on “Beginning Balances” option on that window.
A window will appear displayed by the name “Select Period”. In this you have to select the period whose entries you want to enter. If I am entering data on the date 1st January, 2010 than I wouldn’t select the period “1/1/2010 through 1/31/2010” because otherwise it will become the Closing Balance of that month and here we are entering the beginning balances and the beginning balances for 1st January, 2010 will be the accounts maintained on 31st December, 2009. So we will select the period “12/1/2009 through 12/31/2009. And click “Ok”.
Now a window will appear displayed by the name “Charts of Accounts Beginning Balances” And before entering data we have to check that whether we have created the Retained Earning account. If there is no Retained Earning account than the software would not accept our Balances. And if there is any difference present in balance sheet than it will be written in “Trial Balance”.



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