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Hey blog readers! I found a great post on The Book Bag that I wanted to share with you. If you've liked The Ledger time savers you must check out the Itty Bitty Timesavers post. It lists some great tips and tricks to save you a few seconds here and...
Do you enter the same journal entry batches each month for utility bills or have a grant that receives the same percentage of funds on a regular basis? Hate having to create the same batch each month? Then recurring batches are here to save you time and...
Have you ever wondered whether you should use a Due-to/Due-from account or a Transfer account? Well, that I cannot tell you. However, what I can tell you is the difference between the two account types so that you can make a decision as to which one to...
Do you ever wonder what the transaction Reference column on the General Ledger Report or Post Report means? If you do, then this post is for you! The Reference, also known as journal reference, is created when you post from subsidiary ledgers (AP, AR...
Have you ever wanted a record, or a group of records just gone? I mean completely gone. This is something you can do in The Financial Edge. We call it purging records. Why would you want to purge records? There are a variety of reasons. You may need to...
So I have been using and testing F9 for The Financial Edge (F9) for a few months now. There are several things I love about this Excel tool, but the one piece I endorse over the rest is the reporting wizard. The reporting wizard has tremendous flexibility...
What are Additional Account Categories? I'm glad you asked. They are categories that are not included in traditional accounting and are not required to complete the chart of accounts. In The Financial Edge there are four additional account categories...
"I wish I could edit the appearance of this Income Statement." "My supervisor needs this Balance Sheet to appear in a specific format and I am unable to create it." "I love the flexibility of Excel and wish I could create my Financial...
Have you ever had a situation where you need to edit a whole list of records? There are many ways you can do this, from editing each record individually, to global change , to import . But what if what you are trying to accomplish can't be done with...
I am going to share with you one of my favorite tips for importing. It’s called the browse button. This button will give you examples of what the import will take for a particular field. On the Fields tab of the import parameter, highlight an import field...
We have all been in this situation before, running a report and all of a sudden the results are not coming out correctly; be it a Balance Sheet out of balance, or an Income Statement missing activity from a certain expense code. Either way, one of the...
Ever been in a Journal Entry Batch and asked yourself this very question? Well never fear the Journal Entry Tool Bar is here! While in the Journal Entry Batch, highlight a specific entry, click Batch and then Go To from the menu bar. Under the Go To listing...
Ever wonder, "How am I going to get a list of this information?" Oftentimes, you need to pull data from our system, but how can you? These are the times to look to a query. What is a query? Queries retrieve raw data and present it in a list...
Do you need to show offsetting sales with sales returns on your Income Statement? Whatever the reason to net revenues and expenses, you can do this by adjusting your Visual Chart Organizer (VCO). Just to give you a heads up, the process to adjust the...
Has a new process recently been added to your plate? Are you frustrated because it's easy to get stuck and you're not quite sure of the best way to accomplish this unfamiliar task? Instead, why not acquaint yourself with the new process by signing...
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