Use the Cash Book workspaces and enquiries to investigate and find information about your Sage 200 bank accounts and transactions. You can find monies paid and received, as well as see the overall balance on the account. This helps you to determine the status of a bank account.
You can amend workspaces to display data to suit your business processes or current task. You can use the filter options and column selector to choose the data that is displayed.
You can use the Workspace Designer to change the content or to create your own workspaces. You can add or remove content and change the available actions, the reports, the columns and how they are displayed, the default filters used for the toolbar filter and so on.
In the desktop application, workspaces can be opened from the menu or from the drop-down list.
In the web browser, workspaces are opened from the drop-down list.
To open from the drop-down list, click the arrow next to the workspace title to open another workspace .
All values are displayed in the operating currency for the bank account.
The following workspaces and enquiries are available in the Cash Book:
Open: Cash Book > Cash Book Enquiries > Accounts.
You can:
Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to view the transactions for a specific account, select the account (using the check box) and choose Actions > Bank Transaction Enquiry. The Bank Transaction Enquiry workspace opens with the list of transactions filtered for the selected account.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one row selected.
Open: Cash Book > Cash Book Enquiries > Transactions .
Use this to see a detailed breakdown of each transaction held on the bank account.
You can:
Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to view the account for a specific transaction, select the transaction (using the check box) and choose Actions > Bank Account Enquiry. The Bank Account Enquiry workspace opens with the list of accounts filtered for the selected transaction.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one item selected.
Open: Cash Book > Cash Book Enquiries > SOs and DDs .
You can:
Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to view the account for a specific SO/DD, select the SO/DD (using the check box) and choose Actions > Bank Account Enquiry. The Bank Account Enquiry workspace opens with the list of accounts filtered for the selected SO/DD.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one item selected.
Open: Cash Book > Cash Book Enquiries > Cash Position.
Use this to see information about your bank account balances, along with information about your largest outstanding sales invoices and purchase invoices.
You can:
Select an outstanding sales or purchase transaction and see the transaction details.
Open: Workspaces drop-down list.
Use this to see a list of all your bank accounts.
You can:
The Short Term Cash Projection helps you to forecast the amount of cash you will have in your bank accounts on a particular day after your outstanding transactions have been paid.
For more information, see Short Term Cash Projection.