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L81 Accounting Basic Info


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Step Title Usual way of doing Alternative ways Software aided
Account type
Typical Alternatives:

  • Income/Expense accounting (with or without VAT)
  • Double Entry (with or without VAT)
  • Double Entry with foreign currencies (with or without VAT)

 

Company Name
 

Odoo
Bank Accounts
  • For each bank account create an accounting account
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Link to Odoo

 

FX rates Double Entry with currencies

  • Obtain Official FX rates from Swiss tax authorities
  • Do FX Rates setup (e.g. in Banana)
  • Choose base currency
  • Must run an FX reconcilation process that calculates FX P/L.
 

  • Maintain FX rates in an Excel
  • Take FX rate from the day of booking
  • Transactions converted into base currency in the Excel
  • If payment date is different from the invoice date by some days, then use the rate.
  • No FX Profit and Loss
 Odoo
Chart of Accounts
  • Choose an accounting schema (e.g. in Banana)
  • or import the schema and add additional accounts
  • or continue the balance sheet from the previous year.

 

 

Simplified accounting

  • Only base currency

 

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Opening Balances
Usually you keep the file/data from the previous year
and simply create a new year. 
Create a new account file:
In Banana one can copy it from the previous year, when creating a new file for the next year.
Verify the balances against the previous year,
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Journal for opening balances and post it

Date Format Date Format:

  • Prefer YYYY-MM-DD, like 2019-01-19

 

 
     

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