21st Century Accounting Tutorials
Click a link below to view the following tutorials:
- Installing 21st Century Accounting
- Getting Started
- Company Setup
- General Ledger
- Bank Accounts
- Receivables
- Sales
- Payables
- Payroll
In addition to the tutorials below, you can find more documentation at :
- Daily Operations -- Online lessons mapping daily business operations to 21st Century Accounting Functions,
- Manuals -- Getting Started, Operations Tutorials, and Reference (the window-level online Help). Download free and print yourself.
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Installing 21st Century Accounting
Getting Started
- Getting Help on the Web
- Starting and logging in
- Using Hints, Options Menus, Tips of the Day, and Help
- 21st Century Accounting Core Applications
- Help me get started using 21st Century Accounting
- How do I set up security with different levels of access?
- Show me how to use a typical 21st Century Accounting data entry window
- Data Entry Shortcuts
- Backing Up Frequently
- What is the best way to back up my 21st Century Accounting company?
- What are some general guidelines for making backups?
Company Setup
- For the following Tutorials, create a sample company to practice with. See the Tutorial: Create Company.
General Ledger
- For the following Tutorials, create a sample company to practice with. See the Tutorial: Create Company in Company Setup.
- Designing your Chart of Accounts
- Configure Chart of Accounts: Edit Accounts
- Configure Chart of Accounts: Change Account Structure
- Configure G/L Account Segment Names
- Configure Chart of Accounts: Replicate Accounts
- General Journal Recurring Entries
- Financial Report Templates and Financial Reports, an Overview
- Configure Financial Report Templates
- Configure Financial Reports
- Configure Financial Report Templates: Combining Account Totals
- Configure Custom Journal
- Configure Budgets
- How do I change captions on Financial Reports?
- How do I consolidate account totals into a summary line on Financial Reports?
Bank Accounts
- For the following Tutorials, create a sample company to practice with. See the Tutorial: Create Company in Company Setup.
- Configure Bank Accounts
- Configure Credit Card Accounts
- Configure Cash Receipts Journal
- Reconciliation
- Entering Payments from Others (Deposits)
- Entering Cash and Credit Card Receipts from a Cash Register (Deposits)
- Entering Disbursements Checks to "Other Payees"
- Entering Disbursements Checks to Vendors
- Voiding Checks and Receipts
- Entering Bank Transfers
- Renumbering Checks
- How do I reconcile bank statements?
- Depositing cash, checks & credit cards from a register
- How do I enter and deposit a payment on account from a customer?
- How do I enter a disbursement check to somebody?
- Import Check Register into Excel
Receivables
- For the following Tutorials, create a sample company to practice with. See the Tutorial: Create Company in Company Setup.
- Configure Control Accounts
- Configure Payment Terms
- Configure Billing Cycles
- Configure Sales Taxes, Categories, Prompt Accounts, Finance Charges
- Configure Customers
- Entering a Sales Invoice
- Entering Payments on Customer Accounts (Bank Accounts Deposits)
- How do I enter and deposit a payment on account from a customer?
- How does Receivables Aging work?
- How do I set up finance charges? How are they calculated?
- Email reports
Sales
- For the following Tutorials, create a sample company to practice with. See the Tutorial: Create Company in Company Setup.
Payables
- For the following Tutorials, create a sample company to practice with. See the Tutorial: Create Company in Company Setup.
- Configure Control Accounts
- Configure Sales Taxes, Categories, Prompt Accounts, Payment Terms
- Configure Vendors
- Entering a Vendor Invoice
- Making Payments on Vendor Accounts
- Making Other Kinds of Vendor Payments
- How do I enter a typical vendor invoice?
- How do I apply unapplied check amounts to existing vendor invoices?
- Record Payments made with Electronic Fund Transfers (EFT)
- Insert a note on a check stub
Payroll
- Setting up Payroll
- Configure Income
- Configure Deductions
- Configure Noncash Benefits
- Configure Vacation and Sick Accruals
- Configure Tax Calculations
- Configure Taxes
- Configure Workers’ Comp. Codes
- Configure Employees
- What are the steps I should follow for setting up Payroll?
- Income
- Deductions
- Noncash Benefits
- Vacation and Sick Accruals
- Tax Calculations (only if you have a local Payroll Tax)
- Taxes
- File TX Workforce Commission Quarterly Report
- Workers' Comp. Codes (only if you report Workers' Comp.-covered pay)
- Employees
- Timecards
- Changing hours during timecard entry
- Recurring Timecards
- Run Calculate Payroll (no Timecards)
- Print Remittance Checks
- Print Workers’ Compensation Report
- Print 941 Information
- Create Custom Pay Summary Reports
- What is the best order of setup for pay factors? Does it really matter?
- How do I enter a Timecard?
- How do I enter and print a Payroll tax remittance check?
- How do I print a one-line-per-pay-period summary report?
- How do I create and add new columns to the Custom Pay Summary?
- Setting Up and Running Direct Deposit (available separately)
- Email Direct Deposit Advices with Printboss
- Email Direct Deposit Advices without Printboss
- Electronic Filing CA DE9C
- Customize Tax Forms