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8.4 JOURNALS
SELECT GENERAL LEDGER THEN MAINTAIN JOURNALS
Journals are ways to segment general ledger
transactions. In essence is a journal is known to be a book. Before
the age of computers book keeping and accounting was all done manually.
Accountants kept different books or journals for different types of
accounting needs. For example a journal was kept for accounts
receivable or sales and another book was kept for accounts payable or
bills. Now journals are just ways to easily find a certain
transaction. The internal journals found in
ADVANTAGE
Salon Software and
Spa Software
are already setup for you. All you
have to do is setup additional journals that you may use for entering
manual general ledger transactions. An example of a journal you may
want to setup is a depreciation journal for your capital investments and
equipment.
You do not have to setup any journals if you
do not see a need for them.
To add journals just select the plus icon. You
must enter a journal name to save a journal. You can always setup up
journals later in your implementation. Journals can also be setup after
you have begun your accounting in the software as well.
You cannot delete a journal that is in use in your
chart of accounts but you can edit the journal name at any time. For
instance you can change the name of the journal with out losing any data
that is in that journal. That data will be transferred to the new
journal name.
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