Learning Path: Accountants and Bookkeepers

💡This path lists the topics for accountants and bookkeepers.

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1. The Ledger

Accounting Ledger: Describes the Ledger, which lists all accounting transactions and creates ledger transactions, with its settings, Transaction Types, accounting settings, warnings and Data Pipelines.
Ledger Posting Process Guide: Explains which transactions post to the ledger and when, what each posting carries, close-off dates, foreign currency, allocations and the ledger warnings.
Recurring Transactions: Shows how to flag a ledger transaction as recurring, create new transactions from it and use its Date field to avoid duplicates for a period.
Update Read-Only Transactions Tutorial: Shows how to recognise a read-only ledger transaction, create the edit password and update the transaction when a password is required.

Bank Import: Describes the Bank Import module: its settings, the default view, the Edit Bank Transaction screen with text and Item matching, and the bank balance list view.
Bank Reconciliation: Describes the Bank Reconciliation module: user and status settings, the list view and the edit view with its header, outstanding and bank statement fields.

VAT and WHT: Describes how Value Added Tax works and is paid over, and how to set up Withholding Tax when taxes are withheld from you or from supplier payments.
VAT Reconciliation: Describes the VAT Reconciliation module: its settings, list view and edit view, including out-of-period and outstanding transactions, Transaction Type and VAT Type summaries.
VAT Types Process Guide: Describes who must register for VAT, when to charge and claim VAT and which VAT Types to use for standard, exempt and other supplies.
Multi-Currency: Describes how BOS Enterprise records transactions in foreign currencies: the currency settings and setup tabs, exchange rate updates, foreign currency Item prices and reports.

Inventory Integrations & Valuations Process Guide: Compares integrated (perpetual) and periodic inventory integration and the weighted average and last price valuation methods to help you choose.
Month End Inventory Journal Tutorial: Shows how to clear the accrual accounts each month by comparing the inventory report with the ledger and posting an inventory movement journal.

Managing Close-Off Dates Tutorial: Shows how to set and remove the close-off date that locks transactions in a finalised financial period, per Transaction Type.
Financial Statements: Describes the Financial Statements module: its general, user and menu settings, the report sections it gives access to and its Data Pipelines for Output Templates.
Accounting Budgets: Describes the Budgets module: its user settings, list view, budget selection column, budget editing section with its update options and budget chart.
Cashflow Transactions: Describes the Cashflow Transactions list and edit views, with their buttons, filters and fields, used to record non-trading cash outflows for the forecast.