Working with Bank Accounts

    

Topic: Banking

Overview

 


The Bank Account Document represents one of your company's actual Bank Accounts. If you are using salesorder.com to run your business then the balance and associated transactions should reflect those of the actual account it represents. Indeed, each Bank Account within salesorder.com can be reconciled with its real world counterpart.

 

As with its real world counterpart the Bank Account Document allows you to make deposits and transfers also record bank charges and interest payments.

 

NOTE: Credit Card and Petty Cash accounts are very similar to Bank Accounts. So if you need information on how to use these accounts simply use the help relating to Bank Accounts.

 

Prerequisites


Using salesorder.com the basics

 

Entering and Editing

 


Creating a new Bank Account

From the Explorer click Banking->Bank Accounts this displays the current list of Bank Accounts. From the Action Bar click 'New Bank Account'. This displays the new Bank Account page (below).

 

New Bank Account page

New Bank Account page

 

Bank Account Key Facts

A Bank Account represents one of your actual bank accounts.
A Bank Account differs from a normal Asset account in that it has an associated Bank Name, Bank Account number and Sort Code.

  NOTE: Once the Currency has been set it cannot be changed.

When you create a Bank Account you can specify the Currency and the opening balance.
You also specify the Chart of Accounts account name, and if required a Nominal Code.
The Account Name and Nominal Code have to be unique within the Chart of Accounts.
The Cash Flow Category is you to categorise the account for the purposes of the Statement of Cash Flows Report.

 

The Bank Account Document

An example of the Bank Account Document is shown below.

 

The Bank Account Document

The Bank Account Document

 

Once the Bank Account has been created you can then use it to enter transactions. For example,

Specify the Bank Account in a Cash Purchase
Receive a Customer Payment into the account.
Deposit Non-Deposited funds (e.g. cheques) into the account.
Make money transfers to and from the account.
Enter Bank charges.
Enter Bank interest payments.

 

Reconciling your bank statements

Because the Bank Account Document represents one of your actual bank accounts there should be a one-one correspondence between the respective balances and associated transactions.

 

To check this is the case your bank statements should be reconciled against transactions held in the corresponding Bank Account Document in salesorder.com. The transactions are reconciled using a Bank Reconciliation Document. For more information see Reconcile your Bank Account.

 

Related tasks and information


Showing Money In/Out

Setting default bank accounts

Entering Purchases directly

Making Bank Deposits

Transfer Funds from a Bank Account

Enter Payments from your Bank

Enter Payments to your Bank

Working with Checks

Working with Petty Cash Accounts

Reconcile your Bank Account

Working with Credit Cards

Working with Currencies

Currency Adjustments

Working with the Chart of Accounts

Working with Accounts

Working with Memos