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Accounting user manual
Invoices, bills, money accounts, tax, ledgers, and IFRS financial reporting.
16 articles
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- 01 Getting Started Welcome to the SikaBooks Accounting Module. This manual covers the live accounting workspace as it currently runs in SikaBooks for Ghanaian businesses. SikaBooks provides accountin...
- 02 Customers Customers are the people and businesses you sell to. Every invoice must be linked to a customer. Where to find it: Sidebar > Sales > Customers 2.1 Creating a Customer Go to Sales >...
- 03 Invoices Invoices are sales documents you send to customers requesting payment for goods or services. Where to find it: Sidebar > Sales > Invoices 3.1 Invoice Lifecycle An invoice moves thr...
- 04 Payments Received Payments Received tracks money collected from customers against invoices. Where to find it: Sidebar > Sales > Payments Received 4.1 Recording a Payment Go to Sales > Payments Recei...
- 05 Vendors Vendors are the businesses and individuals you purchase from. Every bill must be linked to a vendor. Where to find it: Sidebar > Purchases > Vendors 5.1 Creating a Vendor Go to Pur...
- 06 Procurement Integration Purchase Orders are no longer managed in the Accounting workspace itself. 6.1 Where Purchase Orders Live Now If the Procurement module is enabled: Purchase Orders are managed in Pr...
- 07 Bills Bills are purchase documents from vendors and represent amounts you owe. Where to find it: Sidebar > Purchases > Bills 7.1 Bill Lifecycle Bills use these operational statuses: Draf...
- 08 Payments Made Payments Made tracks money paid to vendors against bills. Where to find it: Sidebar > Purchases > Payments Made 8.1 Recording a Payment Go to Purchases > Payments Made and click Ne...
- 09 Banking The Banking area manages cash and money accounts, internal transfers, transaction imports, categorization, and reconciliation. Where to find it: Sidebar > Banking 9.1 Cash & Money...
- 10 Chart of Accounts The Chart of Accounts defines the accounts used by the ledger. Where to find it: Sidebar > General Ledger > Chart of Accounts 10.1 Account Types SikaBooks supports the major IFRS-s...
- 11 Journal Entries Journal entries are the manual double-entry tools of the ledger. Where to find it: Sidebar > General Ledger > Journal Entries 11.1 Understanding Double-Entry Every posted entry mus...
- 12 Financial Reports SikaBooks generates accounting and compliance reports from posted data. Where to find it: Sidebar > Reports Core financial statements support PDF and Excel export. Some tax and aud...
- 13 Tax & Compliance SikaBooks includes Ghana-focused tax workflows for VAT, NHIL, GETFund, and WHT. Where to find it: Sidebar > Tax & Compliance 13.1 Tax Rates and Groups Use Ghana Tax > VAT & Levies...
- 14 Fiscal Periods & Year-End Fiscal periods control posting windows, and year-end close finalizes annual books. Where to find it: Sidebar > Tax & Compliance > Period Management 14.1 Generating Fiscal Periods G...
- 15 Approvals & Audit Trail Approval workflows add controlled authorization. The audit trail records change history. Where to find it: Sidebar > Tax & Compliance 15.1 Approval Queue Go to Approvals to review...
- 16 Settings & Configuration Accounting settings are managed from the Accounting Settings hub. Where to find it: Sidebar > Settings > Accounting Settings Access is controlled by the accounting settings permiss...