Introduction - Management / trial balance tutorial

 

This tutorial is designed to help the novice user learn how to produce management accounts from a trial balance. More experienced users of the management accounts option may prefer to refer to the brief step by step guide to ensure they follow the correct steps.

Please note that if you are preparing management accounts from a trial balance the trial balance must be for the management period concerned only, rather than cumulative trial balance.

 

In this chapter

 

 

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Comparatives

First management period

 Starting the post file entry

 Entering the trial balance

 Management accounting adjustments

Final management period

 Select post file entry

 Reverse opening balances

 Entering the trial balance

 

 

 

 

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