User Guide

Workbook 1
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Workbook
The Workbook guides you through the entire process of setting up
a company’s books and entering common transactions.
Step-by-step lessons accompany each accounting procedure
introduced, to give you practice setting up and using the Simply
Accounting program.
When you finish the Workbook, you will have a complete set of
records for a fictional company called Data Processing Services.
You can use this data for more practice, if you wish.
If your company uses cash-basis accounting, be sure to read
Chapter 28, “Cash-Basis Accounting,” in the Simply Accounting
User Guide.
Backing up
You must back up your Simply Accounting data on a regular
basis, in case your current data becomes damaged.
Print historical reports
anytime
Using the backup copy instead of your current records, you can
print historical reports even after you start a new month,
calendar year, or fiscal year. This is useful, for example, if you
need to print payroll reports as of the end of the calendar year,
after you have already entered data for a new year.
For information about backing up your data, see “Backing Up
Your Company’s Information” in Chapter 19, “Preventing
Problems,” in the User Guide.
Displayed amounts
and date formats
may vary
Note that the screen representations in the Workbook may not
exactly match your screen because you will probably be using
different tax tables. The date format may also be different. The
program displays the date format you have chosen in your
Windows Control Panel. (The Workbook uses the month-day-year
format.)