21st Century Accounting Tutorials - Core Applications

21st Century Accounting provides the core system management and accounting functions summarized in this section at the time this manual was printed. 

"System management" from the System menu

• Set up and manage security.
• Create and manage companies and company-wide preferences.
• Back up your data and restore backups.
• Create and manage individual user preferences.
• Turn "sticky notes" off and on.
• Turn screen customization on.
• Manage printers.

• Manage the selected company’s Financial Calendar, account structure, and Chart of Accounts.
• Set up G/L custom journals, account budgets, and historical balances.
• Customize Financial Reports.
• Enter transactions into General and Custom Journals.
• Print General Ledger Reports.

• Manage the selected company’s bank accounts and credit card accounts.
• Set up Cash Receipts Journals.
• Enter Deposits and manage bank Reconciliation.
• Enter and optionally print Disbursements Checks for cash-based businesses.
• Void posted checks and receipts.
• Print bank-related reports.

• Manage customers and their attributes (control accounts, sales taxes, payment terms, finance charges, history, and so forth).
• Manage cyclical Receivables activities (recurring charges, finance charges, statements, and account aging).
• Print Receivables Reports, Customer Statements, and Mailing labels.
• Sales.
• Enter Sales Invoices, Returns, Credit Memos, Debit Memos, Sales Orders, and Invoice Updates.
• Manage product list.
• Print Sales Order Analysis Reports, Backorder Report, Product List, Sales Orders, and Picking Tickets.

• Manage vendors and their attributes (control accounts, sales taxes, payment terms, history, and so forth).
• Enter Vendor Invoices, Credit memos, Debit memos, and Invoice Updates.
• Enter sales orders and track backordered items.
• Generate and print Vendor payment checks or enter manual Vendor payment checks.
• Print Payables reports, Payables cash requirements, 1099s, and Mailing labels.

• Manage employees and their attributes (pay, benefits, deductions, taxes, history, and so forth).
• On timecards, enter hours, department or account distributions, and other employee-specific info (when applicable) and generate payroll runs.
• Generate payrolls with or without timecards and print paychecks or enter after-the-fact paychecks.
• Produce W-2s, 941s, tax remittance checks, and print Payroll reports.

• Open online Help contents and index; follow step-by-step instructions to do Special Tasks; press F1 for context Help at every field.
• View Tips; turn Tips on and off.
• Visit 21st Century Accounting on the Web.
• Send comments and Problem Reports to Technical Support automatically.
• Send company data to 21st Century Accounting.

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