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  • Foreign Currency Transactions

    Our company is CDN but also does business in the US. So, we have set up a US bank account. We invoice our US customers in US funds and they pay accordingly. We also purchase US products (COGS, etc.) and pay for these using our US account. My problem…
  • Data files for this company have not been converted to the current level

    Hi, First off, I'm new to this website (first poster, long-term reader) and want to say thanks for the forum posts as they've been very helpful in troubleshooting our installation. Now to the question, I just recently upgraded one of our Finance execs…
  • Auto Apply Documents "Doc Number"

    Hi there We are making a report in which we have to consider Applied documents. How can we trace whether a document is applied or not through database or front end on the doc? Regards
  • Applying Accounts Payable to Accounts Receivable Open Invoices

    We have some companies that we work with. They are vendors and customers in our Sage 300. There are times when they owe us money in AR and we owe them money in AP. Is there a way to offset the balances? For example, in AP we owe them $100. In AR, they…
  • How do I clear out +/- 0.01 amounts in A/R and A/P?

    I have some customers & vendors that show +0.01 and others that show -0.01. How do I clear these out?
  • Is there any way to add an "account #" field in the Customer/Vendor/Employee information tab?

    Many companies use account numbers for their customers, but there is no field in the customer information tab for this purpose. I am currently taking a course on Sage 50 and asked my teacher this question and she didn't know if it is possible. Does…
  • Year End Adjustments - Corrections to A/P or A/R

    My accountant has requested a series of Adjusting Journal Entries, including adjustments to Payable and Receivable Accounts: Here is a sample: 31/12/14 Accounts Receivable XYZ Inc - Account No. 1205 - Debit - 7592.20 31/12/14 Accounts Payable -…
  • Paperless Office

    We are interested in moving to a paperless office. What is the difference between Sage Paperless Construction and Timberscan? Is one better than the other?
  • Post Dated Cheques

    How to record Customer Post Dated Cheque and Post Dated Cheque issue for supplier or vendor?
  • Help please!

    I am entering all the payable and receivables for a ltd company for 2014. The owner used a credit card for personal and business expenses and used the business bank account to pay for the credit card bill. How do I record the personal expenses so the…
  • New to Sage....How do posting periods work? Where do I post my payment?

    I am new to Sage. I am uncertain how posting periods work. I have a cash receipt from a client dated in Feb. for January invoice that includes December's T&M billings. What posting period do I use? Also, there is no February 2015 as a posting period option…
  • Purchase Order

    Hi, My situation here is that I was editing a Purchase Order in AR and when I was done I hit record and I was expecting a dialogue box that will usually says that the PO was not emailed or printed yet but when I received the dialogue box it a different…
  • How to balance prepayments in history??

    Background: This is the first year of business. The books are being transferred to Simply. I'm unable to proceed from history mode until I've balance the Prepayment account balance to the Pre-order/ Prepayment along with the Deposit account balance…
  • Entering beginning balances

    Is there anyone who can tell me the order of modules used for entering beginning balances? I know that this is something that my consultant or business partner should help me with, but they will not respond to any of my emails. I need to get an existing…
  • Reconcile with Style!

    January is over and hopefully you've got your W2s out the door to your employees! Next up on many clients "To Do List" is reconciling their General Ledger and other financials. A great resource to aid you in reconciling your data/reports, are the following…
  • Year End posting to Accounts Receivable

    Helping a friend who's computer crashed, losing all her company data. Got the accountant to send last years ending balances and started from there. For account receivable and account payable balances, I set up a new account - Accounts Receivable-unlinked…
  • Accounts payable posted against a receivable

    Hi all - got a bit of a strange dilemma here... We have a customer that owes us some money (say, $10,000) and they have been very late to pay us. We also owe this customer money ($12,000.00), so my boss has requested we send a cheque for the difference…