Detailed Course Outline:

Overview

Navigation tools within Pastel, Online Help and how Pastel implements the basic accounting principles.

Setting up Accounts

Learn how to create General Ledger, Customer and Supplier Accounts in Pastel. As well as Sales Analysis codes, Cost codes and Inventory Items.

Supplier Processing

Learn how to process Supplier documents including Purchases Orders, Goods Received Notes, Supplier Invoices, Debit and Credit Notes made easy by Pastel.

Customer Processing

Learn how to process Customer documents, including Sales Invoices, Sales Orders, Quotations, Recurring invoices, Debit and Credit Notes.

General Ledger Processing

Learn how to make Cash Book Deposits and Payments, as well as petty cash. Enter transactions in the journal and complete a Bank Reconciliation using Pastel.

Taxes

Set up tax parameters for inventory, general ledger, customer and supplier accounts. Change tax types and generate Tax Reports

Periodic Processing

Perform an inventory-count. Generate a number of Month end Reports and run through the Year End procedure with Pastel accounting software.

Detailed Course Outline:

Advanced functions in the File Menu

• Consolidating Companies
• Export / Import
• Data Integrity
• Restore a Company
• Send and Receive Account Data
• Printer / Font Setup

Advanced Functions

• User Setup
• Creating a New Entry Type
• Editing the Tax Box Layout
• Budgets
• Cost Codes
• Depreciation
• Accruals
• Purchase of an Asset
• Tax General Journal
• Using a Salaries and Wages Control Account

Advanced Customer Functions

• Multiple Delivery Addresses
• Discounts and Special Prices
• Make One for All Feature
• Processing and RD Cheque
• Accounting for Bad Debts
• Mail Merge feature

Advanced Supplier Function

• Additional Cost Invoices
• Processing Invoices with Customs Tax

Advanced Functions in Change Menu

• Delete History / Clear Files
• Delete Inactive Customers / Suppliers
• Open Item / Balance Forward Conversions
• Reconcile / Un-reconcile Cash Book
• Renumber Codes
• Block Customers / Suppliers Assistant

Advanced Function Utility Menu

• Control Centre
• Microsoft Office Integration

Other Advanced Functions

• Forms Designer
• Inventory Selling Price Adjustment
• Business Intelligence Centre Overview
• ACT Overview

Pastel Bank Manager

• Introduction
• Processing in Bank Manager
• Installing Cash Manager
• Setting Up Cash Manager
• Processing in Cash Manager
• Compacting the Database

Detailed Course Outline:

Bookkeeping Introduction

• Type of Companies
• Double Entry System (This is very important)
• Bookkeeping and Accounting Cycle

Introduction to VAT

• Introduction to VAT
• Terms used VAT
• VAT Processing
• Calculating VAT
• Bank Statements

Source Documents

• Tax Invoices
• Deposit books/slips
• Cheque counterfoils
• Petty Cash Vouchers
• Tax Invoices
• Credit Notes and Returns

Inventory

• Inventory Systems
• Costing Methods

Subsidiary Journals

• Cash Book Journal
• Customer & Supplier Journals
• Petty Cash Journals
• General Journal
• Closing off Journals
• Credit Notes and Returns

General Ledger

• The Different sections of the General Ledger.
• Posting from Subsidiary Journals to General Ledger.
• Closing off accounts in the General .

Trial Balance

• Post your General Ledger to your Trail Balance.

Income Statement

• Post from Trial Balance to Income Statement.

Balance Sheet

• Post from Trial Balance to your Balance Sheet.