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The Financials window

The Financials window is really important because it displays all customer, supplier, journal and bank transactions entered into your software in one place. This list is referred to as your audit trail and you can use it to check old transactions and report on your business.

Tip: Transactions that have been fully paid and reconciled can be removed from the audit trail. For more information about removing transactions from the audit trail, please refer to Clear audit trail.

You can send the data from this window to Excel. To do this,from within the Financials window, click Send To Excel. For more information about sending data to Excel, please refer to File Export - Processing.


Options available from the Financials window

Audit Trail

Generates the Audit Trail report.

This report is useful when tracing financial transactions. Read more

Trial Balance

Generates the Trial Balance report.

This lists your nominal accounts and the balance on each. The sum of the debits should equal the sum of the credits. You can use this report to check the balances on your nominal codes and ensure that the debt and credit values are equal. Read more

Profit & Loss

Generates the Profit and Loss report.

This report details whether or not your organisation is trading profitably. Read more

Comparative Profit & Loss

Generates the Comparative Profit & Loss report.

This report compares actual profit and loss values for a period with the budget or prior year values. Read more 

Balance Sheet

Generates the Balance Sheet report.

This report details your company assets and liabilities, and provides a summary of your current financial position. Read more

Ratio

Accounts Plus and Accounts Professional only

Generates the Quick Ratio report.

You can use this to view the current liquidity position of your company, based upon the data available. By comparing the debit and credit balances, the report provides the net balance. Read more

Variances

Generates the Budget Report.

Identifies variances between your budget figures and your actual figures. Read more

Prior Year

Generates the Prior Year report.

Compares the current trading activities to the same period last year. Read more

VAT Return

Generates the VAT Return. Read more

Prepare for Audit

Opens the Audit Assistant.

This helps you to verify your VAT liability and ensure you are following best accounting practice. Read more

Reports

Access additional financial reports, such as the Transactional-Based Management report.

Reports are displayed and managed using the Report Browser. With the Report Browser you can do more than just print a report, for example you can generate a report to send via email. Read more

Online Payments

Use this facility to run an online payment report.

This option only appears on the Financials window toolbar if you have previously enabled and set up Sage Pay in the Sage Pay tab of your Company Preferences.


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