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Documentations of other versions
Installation under Windows, Mac and Linux
- System requirements
- Free Starter Edition mode
- Install Banana 8 on Windows
- Install Banana 8 on Mac
- Install Banana 8 on Linux
- Install Banana on a server
- Enter the license key
- Uninstalling an older version
Accounting types
Accounting templates and examples
- Svizzera: Nuove norme per i rendiconti
- Accounting templates for Switzerland
- Full list of accounting templates .ac2
VAT management - basic knowledge
- VAT codes table
- Entering the VAT account in the File Properties
- Associate VAT code to the account
- Entering transactions with VAT
- Reversal transactions and credit notes with VAT
- Import the VAT codes table from another file
VAT management for Switzerland
- VAT codes for Switzerland (automatic English translation or available in Italian, German or French)
- 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)
Year's End and New Year
- Recheck the accounting
- Dealing with transaction differences
- Create a New Year
- Update opening balances
- Compositions
- Reports
- Balance sheet and Profit and Loss Statement
- End of Year PDF printouts
Various
How to start
- The Chart of Accounts
- How to set up the Chart of Accounts from scratch
- Setting up a new accounting file based on a template
- 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
- Lock transactions
- Unlock transactions
- 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 multicurrency accounting file
- Entering transactions with VAT
Advanced features
- Cost and profit centers
- Segments (in order to manage multiple projects)
- Invoice management (open & overdue invoices, history)
- 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