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Sage 50 Accounting Report

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I have learnt how to use Sage 50; how to recognize and record correct transactions based on source documents; if HST is required, whether it is HST payable or HST recoverable; using accounting principles to check each transaction; correcting errors according to general ledger; I can analyze the difference between balance sheet and income statement.

To begin with, I have learnt how to use Sage 50 to record transactions, and have realized the benefits and drawbacks of using this software. As we have each transaction sheet, we have to recognize the debits and credit account first, and record the corresponding amount into each account. Then we record the source of the transaction, date of the transaction and explain each of the entry. …show more content…

If the source document is a cash sales slip, it means that goods or services are sold to a customer for cash. Therefore, bank account will be debited, and sales or revenues will be credited. If it is a sales invoice, the sales of goods or services are on account. The accounts receivable will be debited and sales/revenue will be credited. When the source is a purchase invoice, meaning that the company purchased goods on account, therefore expense or assets account are going to be debited, credit account would be bank. When the source document is a cheque copy, there might be 4 different types of transactions. The first one is the company is paying an account payable; the second is purchasing an assent by cash; the third might be payment for an expense by cash; the last one is owner’s drawing of money for personal use. Consequently, the possible debit accounts that might be influenced could be liability account – accounts payable, asset account, expense account and drawings account. Bank will be credited. Lastly, if it is a cash receipts, meaning the cheques are received from customers on account. Bank will be debited and accounts receivable will be …show more content…

After I have record every entry I found that my net income is off 40350 dollars. It really freaked me out. Then I checked the general ledger, I found after I borrowed $40000 from bank, it became credit balance. I realized that I must have put the debit 40000 in to the wrong account. Thus, I checked, and it was the exact same error as I have thought. Secondly, there was still $350 less than expected. I firstly checked whether I have put the amount into the wrong side or have I missed $350. Eventually, I found it was not simply just putting into the wrong column, but I have selected the false account. I chose to debit equipment account instead of the expense account. Thus, after adjusting these 2 entries, the figures reached the expected

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