This option allows you to add, amend, view and delete cash book accounts. If you are already using the nominal ledger, then these options largely duplicate the Maintain Chart of Accounts options in the nominal ledger. However, in addition here you can define the column headings to use when entering receipts and payments.
Note
Whether or not you are able to use all these options may depend on the way your system has been configured. It is common to restrict the ability to maintain the nominal chart of accounts to a few specific users who have the right authority, and to prohibit the first two cash book account maintenance options completely.
Cash book accounts fall into three categories:
Cash accounts, which are the bank accounts, petty cash, till float, and charge card accounts that are to be managed by the cash book program
Income and expense accounts, which analyse the receipts and payments that pass through the cash book accounts. If you are running a sales ledger in conjunction with the cash book, then your income analysis comes from the sales ledger, and you would post receipts to a sales ledger receipts control account (see below). In a similar vein, most of the payment analysis might in fact come through the purchase ledger if that is linked
Control accounts, used to accumulate values against other systems
Examples of control accounts include:
Sales receipts control. If you have a nominal ledger, this is the same as the debtors’ ledger control. If you are not using the nominal ledger, then the movements on this account every month should be checked to see that they agree to the payments figure in the sales ledger control
Purchase payments control. Similar to the sales receipts control, this time the nominal ledger equivalent is the creditors ledger control
Payroll control. Payments made to employees should accumulate in this control account, and should equal the net pay from your payroll(s). If you have a nominal ledger, then the net pay figure from the payroll should refer to this account too, and so it should hold a balance of zero at the end of a period
If you are using the nominal ledger, then you already have a chart of accounts for the nominal, and these account codes are used by the cash book too. See the discussion about code structures in the Overview section to the Introduction chapter above. You are recommended to review your chart of accounts and its structure with your accountant before you start to add any accounts, particularly if you plan to implement the nominal ledger in the future.
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The first and second options of this menu have similar purposes — to add or amend accounts. When you set up the cash book initially, the first option Names is much quicker for getting all the accounts into the system.You can then use the second option to add the cash account, reconciliation, and other flags to the cash accounts themselves.
Article ID: 1042
Created On: Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:49 PM
Last Updated On: Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 7:04 PM
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