1. Start

• System requirements
• Download
• Installing and opening the software
  
• How to insert the license key in Banana Accounting 5
• Organizing the documents

2. Characteristics

• Program options
• Interface
• The tables
• Memorized texts table
• The fields (columns)
• The views
• The information window
• The error messages window
• Banana Accounting start page

Editing file and software settings

• Editing columns display
• Editing the columns
• Personalizing the views
• Adding and deleting rows
• Wrap text/Calculate row height
• Page setup
• Editing the default style
• Inserting or removing a page break
• Editing date, hour and number format
• Inserting a link to a document

3. Choosing your accounting type

• Comparing the different accounting types
• Users profile

4. Cashbook

• Introduction
• The cashbook tables
• Creating a new file
• Opening balance
• Cashbook transactions
• The Statement

5. Simple accounting

• Introduction
• The simple accounting tables
• Creating a new file
• Opening balances
• Simple accounting transactions
• The Statement

6. Double-entry accounting

• Introduction
• Theoretical part
• The double-entry accounting tables

Creating our own accounting file

• Creating a new file
• Modifying an accounting plan
• Setting-up a new chart of accounts
• Connecting VAT codes to Income and Expenses accounts
• Activating the Address view in the Chart of Accounts
• Entering opening balances
• Creating an accounting file for the New Year and reporting opening balances

Clients/Suppliers registers

• Clients/Supplier register integrated in the Balance sheet
• Clients/Suppliers register with no display of the Account cards in the Balance sheet
• Displaying expiry dates

Cost centers

• The "Cost Centers" view
• Setting up Cost centers
• Managing the membership list of an association with cost centers
• Managing several groupos in a Cost center

Budget

• Creating a Budget

External report

• External Accounting Report
• Mananging several projects

Double-entry accounting transactions

• Speeding up entering transactions
• Double-entry accounting transactions
• Different types of transactions
• Transactions on multiple accounts
• Entering the issuing of a bank check
• Entering a credit note
• Transactions by period

Print-outs

• The journal
• Printing account cards
• Printing balances by period
• Printing VAT registers
• External accounting report
• Balance sheet
• Balance by classes

Year end and New Year

• How to allocate the profit or loss art year end
• Reload opening balances from previous year

7. Multi-currency accounting

• Introduction
• Theoretical part
• The exchange rate table
• The transactions table
• Balances in another currency (currency2)

Creating your own accounting file

• Setting up the Charts of accounts
• Entering the opening balances for the first time
• Updating the Exchange rates table

Multi-currency accounting transactions

• Multi-currency accounting transactions
• Entering transactions in basic currency
• Entering transactions with accounts in basic and foreign currencies
• Entering transactions with two accounts both in a currency other than the basic currency
• Entering transactions between two different foreign currencies
• Entering exchance rate differences
• Error message "Curreny symbol not found"

Print-outs

• The journal
• Printing the journal by period
• Printing the account cards
• Printing balances by period
• VAT registers
• External accounting report
• Balance sheet
• Balance by classes

Year end and New Year

• Procedures at year's end
• Balancing the opening balances
• New Year
• Upload opening balances
  
• Opening balances differences
  

8. VAT management

• VAT Codes table
• Inserting a new percentage
• Entering transactions with VAT
• Entering the VAT balance every quarter
• Printing the VAT registers
• VAT on services obtained abroad
  
• Entering VAT payed at customs for import
• VAT paid at import by the shipping company

Switzerland

• Entering transactions with VAT deductible only at 50%
• VAT with fixed percentage
• VAT on cash received and transitories at year's end
• Filling the Swiss VAT declaration form

9. Accounting print-outs

• External Accounting Report
• Managing several projects
• Printing the account cards
• Printing the journal
• Printing the VAT registers

10. Data import and export

• Importing data from a cashbook file
• Importing data from e-banking
  
• Importing transactions in txt format
• Transferring data from other accounting software
• Developers kit
• Exporting accounting data in Excel, Html, Xml formats
  
• Transferring data in Excel through DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange)

11. Security and recovery of accounting data

• Inserting a password
• Protecting the rows
• Locking and certifying of accounting data
• Data recovery from the backup file
• Making a copy of the Banana software on a memory stick
• Making a security copy of your accounting file on a memory stick

12. Labels

• Creating and printing labels

14. Contacts and legal information

• Company contacts
  
• Opening and Closing days
• Press room
• Reviews
• User license