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Overview


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Chart of Accounts is a list of numbered accounts containing Ledger Account Names and Numbers that are affected by the financial transactions of a business into the General Ledger.  The Purpose of the Chart of Accounts is to provide a listing of the different accounts used by the organisaion according to their intended purpose. Readysell has a set Chart of Accounts, the Chart is reviewed by the Site as additonal Accounts may need to be added.

The 7 Basic Accounting Types (in order) are:

  • Assets - Things you own
  • Liabilities - Things you owe
  • Equity - Owners Stake in Company
  • Revenue - Income through Sales of the Products of the Business
  • Costs of Goods Sold - Costs to provide the service or to manufacture or acquire the product the business sells
  • Expenses - Things that are paid for that are consumable, they have no lasting value but are part of the cost of running a business
  • Other Revenue and Expenses - Revenue and Expenses that are unusual cases and are not directly related to the business product and are not usual costs of running a business.


Getting Started

Child pages (Children Display)
pageGetting started with accounts

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FieldDescription
Account IDThe Account ID, used to identify the General Ledger account
Account TypeThe account type determines whether this account is an asset, expense, income or liability.
DescriptionThis field shows the account's

Status Tab

FieldDescription
Current Period Range
Start PeriodThe Period you have set to be the Start Period
End PeriodThe Period you have set to be the End Period
Actual Opening BalTotal Sum of all Transactions that are dated into the Period Less than the Start Period that has been set.
Actual Closing Bal
FieldDescription
Start PeriodThe Period you have set to be the Start Period
End PeriodThe Period you have set to be the End Period
Actual Opening BalTotal Sum of all Transactions that are dated into the Period Less than the Start Period that has been set.
Actual Closing Bal Actual Opening Balance + Actual MovementBudget Opening BalTotal Sum of All Values that are in a Period Less that the Start Period that have been set with Budgets.
Budget Closing Bal 
Actual Movement 
Budget Movement 
Comparison Period Range
Comparison Start Period 
Comparison End Period 

Actual Opening Bal

 
Actual Closing Bal 
Budget Opening Bal 
Budget Closing Bal 
Actual Movement 
Budget Movement 

Account Sites tab

Button

ImageFieldDescription
Image RemovedRelatedShows objects related to the current selection, in this case it will show the site details.
Image RemovedDissectionsIs a list of all the transactions that have been dissected against that Bank Account highlighted for the Period Range that has been set.
Image RemovedDaily TotalsShows you a Total Dollar Value Summarised by Date,Transaction Type for all transactions for that one Account Site.

Status Tab

Actual Opening Balance + Actual Movement
Budget Opening BalTotal Sum of All Values that are in a Period Less that the Start Period that have been set with Budgets.
Budget Closing Bal Budget Opening Balane + Budget Movement
Actual MovementThe total sum of all movements from the start to the end period
Budget MovementSum of all Values in the Budger for the Period
Comparison Period Range
Comparison Start PeriodSum of all Values in the Budger for the Period
Comparison End PeriodThe Previous Comparative End Period 

Actual Opening Bal

Total Sum of all Transactions that are dated are have a Period Less than the Comparative Start Period.
Actual Closing BalActual Opening Balance + Actual Movement
Budget Opening BalTotal Sum of All Values that are in a Period Less that the Comparative Start Period that have been set with Budgets.
Budget Closing BalBudget Opening Balane + Budget Movement
Actual MovementThe total sum of all movements from the comparative start to the comparative end period
Budget Movement Sum of all Values in the Budget for the Period


Account Sites tab

Button

ImageFieldDescription

Filter - All sites
Active Sites
Inactive Sites 

FilterDisplay the balance/transactions for the site and period select

Image Added

RelatedShows objects related to the current selection, in the Budger this case it will show the site details.
Image AddedDissectionsIs a list of all the transactions that have been dissected against that Bank Account highlighted for the Period Range that has been set.
Image AddedDaily TotalsShows you a Total Dollar Value Summarised by Date,Transaction Type for all transactions for that one Account Site.

Balances and Budgets

The Balance and Budgets tab contains the Movement for the period and the Budget for the Period.  The 'Variance' is the difference between the Movement and Budget for the period set. The Period range that is set,whether it be at the header level or detail level is global.

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FieldDescription
Period 

 The Financial year selected being either the current period or all periods by dropping down the filter and selecting.

Actual MovementThe actual movement is the total of all the debit less credit postings to one general ledger account site for a single period
Budget MovementThis is the budget movement
VarianceThis field shows the variance for the balance and budget

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FieldDescription
DateThe date and time of the daily balance and budget in summary
Actual MovementThe actual movement is the total for that day in summary
Budget MovementThis is the budget movement for the linethat day in summary
VarianceThis field shows the variance for the balance and budget in summary for the day

Settings

FieldDescription
Show on P&L 
Show on Bal Sheet 
Heading on P&L 
Heading on Bal Sheet 
P&L Sort Index 
Bal Sheet Sort Index 
P&L Parent 
Bal Sheet Parents 
Normally Debit/ Credit  How the value is to display on the report,
Daily Budgeting 
Clear to Account  The P&L appropriation general ledger account that all the income/cost of goods and expense accounts are cleared to.
Clear At Year End 

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 This needs to be turned on for all Income/Revenue/Cost of Goods and Expense accounts that you wish to clear at year end to the Clear to Account.

Settings>Bank Account tab

FieldDescription
Is Bank Account  If this field is True, this determines that this account is a bank account and can be linked to tenders. If this check box is ticked, the transactions can be seen in the Banking file. If this check box is checked you can perform a bank reconcilation for this form of a bank account.
Primary Bank Account  You can only have 1 primary main bank account.
Bank Account Bank  The bank eg ANZ
Bank Account Name  The name on the Bank Account
Bank Account bsb  BSB
Bank Account Number 

Bank Account number 

Benchmarks

FieldDescription
Benchmark IDName

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