Posts Tagged ‘accounts system’

Managing your expenses in Xero

Sunday, December 19th, 2010

As a business owner, you are probably spending your own money that at some stage needs to be claimed back against the company.

Some accounting and bookkeeping systems can make it confusing on the right way to pay the money back through an expense claim.

With Xero the Expense Claim section allows you to quickly enter and manage all expense claims for your organisation. After submitting an expense claim, you will be reimbursed for your spending.

Your Dashboard will show all the expense claims currently in progress by people in your organisation. This includes your current claim and any claims by other users in your organisation.

Money coming in (from accounts receivable invoices)

Sunday, December 19th, 2010

At times of business uncertainty, your Aged Debtors/Receivables Control is more crucial than ever.

Xero will help with your ‘Money In’ control by displaying on your Dashboard a graph showing the money owing to you based on the invoice date and how many days the money has been outstanding.

These easy to understand graphs will help identify what monthly money is owed to you so that you can keep control and receive your payments quickly into your bank account.

When you want to get money from your customers you need to raise an accounts receivable invoice. Xero has designed a very easy and straightforward process so that invoices are quickly sent for someone to pay you.

Rather than wait until the end of the month, we recommend you send your invoices as soon as there is approval to do so. We will talk you through the accounts receivable process and once you have saved and approved your invoices, Xero can turn your invoice into a PDF for you to print and post or you can email directly through Xero to your customer.

If you have saved your customer’s email address within your Contacts, the address field is automatically populated with their email address. The ‘Subject’ will be the subject line that displays in the recipient’s email in box the ‘Message’ will appear in the body of the email that your customer receives. The email will show in the recipient’s in box as having come from your name as it is displayed in your profile and email address you are signed into Xero with.

Additional information required to start you on Xero

Friday, December 17th, 2010

So that we may match any data that you have in your current accounts system, we will need from you the following information but again, we will give full assistance to ensure nothing is missed. It is important that you are feeling confident that we have all the records needed to get you started.

  • All the invoices and credit notes (the amount owing to you) which are outstanding at the date we agree will be your conversion date (the first day your accounting records are started in Xero)
  • You will also need to provide the total amount of any uncleared funds like unpresented cheques. This is the difference between your actual bank account balance, and the bank account balance shown on your current accounting system
  • Trial Balance or Balance Sheet Reports that detail your balances at the day before the agreed Xero conversion date

If you are uncertain about these reports, we will help work out your balances.