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


osFinancials is a Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (GAAP) compliant system. osFinancials 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 osFinancials has installed, on your system, to create a Set of Books, your Set of Books will be set according to the Accounting principles.


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\ENGLISH\” 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. 


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).

Afrikaanse handleiding 

The following Set of Books based on the Afrikaans tutorial, are installed in the “…\bin\Tutorials\AFRIKAANS\” folder.

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

COST-CENTRES 

Tutorials / examples to explore the activation, processing and reporting of Cost centres in osFinancials5. See - Cost centres in this Help file.

The following Set of Books based on this tutorial, is installed in the “…\bin\Tutorials\COST-CENTRES\” folder: 

  • COST-CENTRES-A (transactions and documents not posted to the ledger)
  • COST-CENTRES-B (transactions and documents posted to the ledger).

PROJECTS 

Tutorials / examples to explore the activation, processing and reporting of Projects in osFinancials5. See - Projects in this Help file.

The following Set of Books based on this tutorial, is installed in the “…\bin\Tutorials\PROJECTS\” folder: 

  • PROJECTS-A (transactions and documents not posted to the ledger) 
  • PROJECTS-B (transactions and documents posted to the ledger).