This full-day, 6-hour session will take you through setting up your company books using Simply Accounting 2009. After creating a company in Simply Accounting, the next step will be to customize the company settings, preferences and chart of accounts to suit your company.

Participants can follow along with the instructor and create a generic company data file or they can create their company-specific data file on their own laptop with Simply Accounting installed prior to the training session.

Topics:

• Creating your chart of accounts
• Saving/backing up your data file
• Customizing company preferences
• Adding, editing and deleting accounts
• Account classes & why they are important
• Sub-ledger & linked accounts review
• Setting up credit cards
• Setting up taxes: PST, GST & HST

This half-day, 3-hour session will take you through the features and functions of the Receivable & Sales Module in Simply Accounting 2009. The session will demonstrate implementing the features and functions, processing transactions and troubleshooting. We will discuss the software’s full potential, enabling you to be as efficient as possible in your day-to-day business operations.

Topics:

• Receivable module setting
• Customer setup and maintenance
• Print and form settings, including adding a logo to your invoice and customer statements
• Customizing the screen and tabbing order
• Recording invoices paid by cash, cheque, credit card
• Recording sales orders, converting them to invoices, handling back orders
• Recording accounts receivable invoices
• Producing customer statements
• Recording customer payments by cash, cheque, credit card
• Recording customer deposits, applying deposits to invoices
• Looking up, adjusting and voiding receivable/sales transactions
• Using recurring entries to expedite your work
• Review of receivable reports – customizing, formatting and searching

This half-day, 3-hour session will take you through the features and functions of the Payable/Expense Module in Simply Accounting 2009. The session will demonstrate implementing the features and functions, processing transactions and troubleshooting. We will discuss the software’s full potential, enabling you to be as efficient as possible in your day-to-day business operations.

Topics:

• Payable module settings
• Vendor setup and maintenance
• Print and form settings, including adding an account number to your cheques
• Customizing the screen and tabbing order
• Recording bills paid by cash, cheque, credit card
• Recording purchase orders, converting them to bills, handling back orders
• Recording accounts payable invoices
• Recording vendor payments by cash, cheque, credit card
• Recording vendor prepayments, applying prepayments to invoices
• Looking up, adjusting and voiding payable/expense transactions
• Using recurring entries to expedite your work
• Review of payable reports – customizing, formatting and searching