Accounting > Today accounting page [guide]
Guide contents: Navigation | Daily feed | Conversations | New transactions | Items needing attention | Account balances as of | Views | Financial Reports | Resources
Navigation
By default, your current view is today’s date. The Today page is where all accounting functions can be performed, transactions can be approved & posted, AR and AP Balance dates viewed, and GL account balances viewed.
Daily feed
Adjusting the date will provide the daily feed for the date selected.
Conversations
On the Today page, you can view any open conversations. Open conversations can be viewed by various categories: today, this week, open, unread, and favorites. Adjusting the date will only affect the display of the daily feed and does not affect the view of the conversations.
New transactions
Click the '+' icon to quickly add new accounting functions.
From this option, you can create a new: journal entry, client invoice, receipt, vendor invoice, payment, credit card charge, account reconciliation, to-do, conversation, meeting, time entry, or start a timer.
Click the '...More' button to set the system settings > System settings. NOTE: This is based on security rights.
In this area, you can determine, by security group, the information to display.
- Items needing attention.
- The daily feed, setting what projects to display and whether to include time entries in the display.
- The In/out board options and.
- Account balances: A list of GL account types to display the account balances.
Items needing attention
The items needing attention include a listing of unapproved transactions, unposted transactions, AR balanced, and AP balanced.
- Unapproved transactions: Displays a list of transactions that have not yet been either submitted for approval or submitted, but not approved. Click on the individual line, and the system will allow you to approve the transaction based on security rights.
- Unposted transactions: Displays a list of transactions that have not yet been posted. Select the line(s) and post in batch. The transaction line will post as of the posting date in the transaction. In here you can also access the Preposting by Account and Transaction reports.
- Scheduled transactions - This appears if you have any recurring scheduled transactions where you are one of the people to remind.
- Post work in progress - (If you enabled WIP) This will show you the amount of unbilled WIP and then drilling in will let you post that WIP to your ledger.
- AR balanced: When your account is in balance the screen displays today's date. When your account is out of balance, a Check date link appears. Click the link to see the last date the account was balanced. Click on the AR balanced and the AR aging report becomes available to run.
- AP balanced: Displays the last date the AP aging report balanced to the balance sheet. Click on the AP balanced and the AP aging report becomes available to run.
Account balances
The Account balances, defaults to display today’s date and the balances of those accounts. Edit the 'to bill as of' date and the values will be updated to reflect the balances in the accounts as of that date.
Views
The Views section of the Today page provides various listing screens including modified/customized lists such as Client Invoices, Retainers, Receipts, and Transactions.
- Favorites: Any report view you have made a favorite here or in the Report Center.
- Journal entries: allows access to the Journal entry listing screens and any custom listing screens.
- Client invoices: allows access to the Client invoice listing screen and any custom listing screens.
- Receipts: allows access to the Receipts listing screen and any custom listing screens.
- Deposits:
- Vendor invoices: allows access to the Vendor invoice listing screens and any custom listing screens.
- Payments: allows access to the Payments listing screens and any custom listing screens.
- Credit card charges: allows access to the Credit card charge listing screen.
- General Ledger Drill Down:
- Account reconciliations: allows access to the Account reconciliation listing screen and any custom listing screens.
- Revenue Forecasts:
- Financial Budgets:
- Labor Budgets:
- Scheduled Transactions:
- To-dos: allows access to the Activities listing screen and any custom listing screens.
Financial Reports
Accrued Order Detail:
Balance Sheet:
Campaign Profit and Loss:
Cash Projection - Drill Down:
Client Profit and Loss (Detail View):
Client Profit and Loss (Multi View):
Corporate Profit and Loss:
General Journal:
General Ledger:
Metrics Monitor:
Multicurrency Realized Gains/Losses:
Multicurrency Unrealized Gains/Losses:
Overhead Allocation Details:
Project Profit and Loss (Detail View):
Project Profit and Loss (Multi View):
Statement of Cash Flows:
Trial Balance:
Uncleared Transactions:
WIP Analysis:
Resources
Accounting overview [in-depth guide]
Accounting reports [in-depth guide]