Documentation Banana Accounting+

System requirements and Installation

• System requirements
• Installing Banana Accounting Plus
• Activating Banana Accounting Plus
• Installing an Extension offline

Accounting applications

• Double-entry accounting
• Multi-currency accounting
• Income & Expense accounting
• Cash Manager (Free)
• Invoicing integrated in your accounting file
• Accounting report file

Productivity applications

• Estimates and Invoices separate from the accounting
• Inventory
• Free Time Sheet application
• Fixed assets register
• Address Book
• Library and collections

VAT management - basic knowledge

• VAT and Sales Tax codes table
• Entering the VAT account in the File Properties
• Associate VAT code to an account
• Entering transactions with VAT
• Reversal transactions and credit notes with VAT
• Import the VAT codes table from another file

Documentation specific to Switzerland

• Solutions for:
  • Companies
    • SME Plan for companies (in German)
  • Individuals and freelancers
  • Associations and NGOs
    • Account plan for associations (in German)
    • Donation statement for associations
    • Member list
    • Letters to members
  • Auditors and accountants
     
• VAT management for Switzerland
  • VAT codes for Switzerland (automatic English translation or available in Italian, German or French)
  • Updating the VAT codes table
  • Clients and suppliers with VAT on cash received
  • VAT on cash received and transitory assets/liabilities at the end of year
  • Entering VAT at customs for import
  • VAT on services obtained abroad
  • Swiss VAT Tax report - Effective method
    (available in Italian, German or French)
  • Swiss VAT Tax report - Flat tax rate method
    (available in Italian, German or French)
  • Updating the VAT codes for versions older than version 9
     
• Resources for Switzerland:
  • Courses and consultancies
  • Schools

Year's End and New Year and Printouts

• Recheck the accounting
• Create a New Year
• Update opening balances
• Account cards
• Customization
• Reports
• Balance sheet and Profit and Loss Statement

• End of Year PDF printouts

How to start

• The Chart of Accounts
• Templates of Charts of accounts
• Setting up a new accounting file based on a template
• How to set up the Chart of Accounts from scratch
• Adding, deleting, renaming an account or a group
• Adding and deleting subgroups
• Entering opening balances in a new accounting file
• Updating existing opening balances
• Setting up a clients/suppliers register
• Multi-currency chart of accounts

Transactions

• Fast transactions input
• Automatic numbering of the Doc column
• Include a link to an electronic document
• Entering simple transactions (a Debit and a Credit account)
• Entering complex transactions (on multiple accounts)
• Recurring transactions
• Entering transactions in a Income & Expenses or Cashbook file
• Entering transactions in a double-entry accounting file
• Entering issued bank checks
• Entering transactions in a multi currency accounting file
• Entering transactions with VAT
• Lock transactions
• Unlock transactions

Advanced features

• Invoicing integrated in your accounting file
• Estimates and Invoices separate from the accounting
• Banana Extensions
• Installing an Extension offline
• Cost and profit centers
• Segments (in order to manage multiple projects)
• Invoice management (open & overdue invoices, history)
  • Customers Menu
  • Suppliers Menu
• Budget table with transactions
• Possibility to insert formulas

Data import and export

• Bank Statement SEPA/ISO 20022
• Data import
• Import transactions from a bank or post statement
• Data export
• Transferring data from other accounting software
• Data export: Excel - Html - Xml - txt
• Option on which data to Include in the export
• Export rows or selected area in txt format

Useful information

• Courses and consultancies
• Opening and closing days
• Help menu
• Error messages
• Recent/Favorite files
• Developers
• Remote support

Security

• Insert Password
• Protect rows
• Lock transactions
• Avoiding data loss
• Creating a PDF dossier

Documentation of previous versions

The documentation pages of the previous versions of Banana Accounting will still remain available for our users:

• Documentation version 9
• Documentation version 8
• Documentation version 7 and previous