If you are new to accounting or accounting in a computerised environment, you should read the following:


TurboCASH is a Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (GAAP) compliant system. TurboCASH really makes accounting easy and produces financial reports, which understandable to every user of financial information. In addition to the standard Income statement, Balance Sheets and Trial Balances, you may also produce a host of other reports to manage your business activities and performance.


A basic understanding of accounting principles may be necessary to identify transactions and enter them in the correct accounts. Should you use the basic templates, which TurboCASH has installed, on your system, to create a Set of Books, your Set of Books will be set according to the Accounting principles.


Please contact Philip Copeman at philip@pinksoft.co.za to purchase any of the following books: 


Accounting Made Easy - English tutorials

English tutorials (using the default payments and receipt batches for banking / cash transactions):

The following Set of Books based on this tutorial, are installed in the “…\Bin\Tutorials\EN-TUTORIALS\” folder:

  • HANDYMAN (No transactions)
  • HANDYMAN-A (Unposted)
  • HANDYMAN-B (Posted)

The following folders contains files which may be imported into batches:

  • EXPORTED-BATCH-Delimited-File – Exported batch transactions using the “Write delimited file” option and may be imported into a batch using the “Delimited file import” option (F9:Process icon) on batches.  
  • EXPORTED-BATCH-Spreadsheets – Exported batch transactions in the *.xlsx (Excel 2007-365) file format. These transaction files may be opened in the Spreadsheet import icon on batches, and imported into a selected batch. 


Accounting Made Easy – BankImport Plugin - English tutorials

English tutorials (using the BankImport plugin for banking / cash transactions):

The following Set of Books based on this tutorial, are installed in the “…\Bin\Tutorials\BANK-IMPORT\” folder:

  • HANDY-BANK (No transactions).
  • HANDY-BANK-A (Unposted transactions in batches and documents, except the Payments and Receipt batches, which is cleared for the Bank account and the Petty cash).
  • HANDY-BANK-B (Posted transactions in batches and documents, including the imported bank statement and processed Petty cash transactions).
  • HANDY-BANK-UNPOSTED-BANK-STATEMENT – All transactions in batches and documents have been posted. The sample Bank statement in the “…\Bin\Tutorials\BANK-IMPORT\BANK-STATEMENTS” folder needs to be imported and Petty cash transactions needs to be processed).

Rekeningkunde Met Gemak – Afrikaanse handleiding

The following Set of Books based on the Afrikaans tutorial, are installed in the “…\Bin\Tutorials\AF-HANDLEIDINGS\” folder.

  • NUTSMAN (No transactions).
  • NUTSMAN-A (Unposted)
  • NUTSMAN-B (Posted).






 

Cost centres


The following Set of Books to configure and process transactions in batches and documents for cost centres and the reporting, are installed in the “…\Bin\Tutorials\COST-CENTRES\” folder:

  • COST-CENTRE-A - Unposted - All transactions in batches and documents is not yet posted (updated) to the ledger.
  • COST-CENTRE-B - Posted All transactions in batches and documents is posted (updated) to the ledger.






Projects

The following Set of Books to configure and process transactions in batches and documents for projects and the reporting, are installed in the “…\Bin\Tutorials\PROJECTS\” folder:

  • PROJECTS-A - Unposted - All transactions in batches and documents is not yet posted (updated) to the ledger.
  • PROJECTS-B - Posted - All transactions in batches and documents is posted (updated) to the ledger.




  1. Accounting Made Easy – A hands-on tutorial to work with TurboCASH5.
  2. Rekeningkunde met Gemak – A hands on tutorial and reference in Afrikaans based on the Accounting Made Easy book. 

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