Check your trial balance
Every account with its opening balance, movements and closing balance.
On the computer, 5 steps
Guide 12 of 14 in Accounting
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Open it
In Accounting › Trial balance, click Last month.

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Check the total
On the Total row, debits and credits must be equal.

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Open a class
Click a class, here Operating Expenses, to list its accounts.

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Pick an account
Each account shows opening, debit, credit and closing. Click one.

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See its lines
The ledger shows the entries that moved it.

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- 1Invite your accountantName and e-mail, and they get their sign-in details.
- 2Move your books inYour old journal, account by account, checked.
- 3Open your booksCheck the opening, then open the books.
- 4Add an accountA new account under the right parent.
- 5Classify a movementGive an untyped expense its account.
- 6Record a journal entryType the lines, check the balances, send.
- 7Lock a monthClose a finished month to any change.
- 8Reopen a monthAsk to reopen a locked month, then approve it.
- 9Check the VAT you oweThe figures for your monthly VAT return.
- 10Read your profit and lossIncome, expenses and profit, down to each line.
- 11Read your balance sheetAssets, liabilities and equity on one page.
- 14See who owes youCustomers and suppliers, sorted by age.
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