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Elosimple User Guide Elosimple User Guide A user friendly MS Access Template; eases processing of accounting, Payroll & inventory records Peter Elolo K Darrah (C.A.(Gh), CIT(Gh), MBA(Auditing) Ghana Revenue Authority [email protected] +233244592866 +233202441763 Thursday, December 7, 2017

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Elosimple User Guide

Elosimple

User Guide

A user friendly MS Access Template; eases

processing of accounting, Payroll & inventory

records

Peter Elolo K Darrah (C.A.(Gh),

CIT(Gh), MBA(Auditing) Ghana Revenue Authority

[email protected]

+233244592866

+233202441763

Thursday, December 7, 2017

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FOREWORD ............................................................................................................................... 3

GETTING STARTED .................................................................................................................. 3

HOW TO OPEN THE elosimple template .................................................................................. 3

OVERVIEW OF elosimple ........................................................................................................... 4

HOW TO USE elosimple .............................................................................................................. 4

SET UP ....................................................................................................................................... 5

CREATING ACCOUNTS ......................................................................................................... 5

AccountsSetUp ......................................................................................................................... 5

POSTING OF ACCOUNTS .......................................................................................................... 7

CashJournal .............................................................................................................................. 7

CashJournal .............................................................................................................................. 7

Demonstration of posting with CashJournal ................................................................................ 8

Reports .................................................................................................................................... 9

CashJournal Report ................................................................................................................... 9

Income Statement Report .......................................................................................................... 9

Working Capital Report .......................................................................................................... 10

Trial Balance Report ............................................................................................................... 10

Ledger Report .......................................................................................................................... 11

Inventory Report ..................................................................................................................... 12

PAYROLL ................................................................................................................................. 12

Journal Entries for Posting ....................................................................................................... 14

Payroll Titbits ......................................................................................................................... 15

SECURITY ................................................................................................................................ 15

SHORTCUT KEYS .................................................................................................................... 16

CONCLUSION .......................................................................................................................... 16

BIBLIOGRAPHY ...................................................................................................................... 17

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FOREWORD

elosimple Access template has been designed to ease preparation of accounting, payroll,

inventory records and reports (Microsoft).

GETTING STARTED

HOW TO OPEN THE elosimple template

The template is supposed to be retained and copied for each year’s use. A template meant for

2017, for instance, ought to be copied and renamed as the User’s business name or company

name as well as the Year of Use. Illustrated as follows:

A password request may be prompted at each time that an attempt is made at opening a

protected template; which must be supplied by the user.

Just double-click on EntityName_XXXX.accdb

to open; and one should have this interface

(below):

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Please contact via: [email protected] or 0244 592 866

OVERVIEW OF elosimple

elosimple DATABASE interface

HOW TO USE elosimple

Useful for processing the following:

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Cashbook

Journal

Ledgers

Trial Balance

Operating (Profit)/Loss without closing Inventory value effect

Working Capital minus closing inventory effect

Inventory Report

Payroll with pay slips, PAYE returns and SSF Contribution returns

The above can be customised to suit user’s demands.

SET UP

Names, email and phone contacts of those preparing the records may, advisedly, register

before entering, manipulating or processing data.

CREATING ACCOUNTS

Accounts or Inventory is set up by single/double clicking on either the form or button of

AccountSetUp or InventorySetUp; to open).

AccountsSetUp

On opening the AccountSetUp form, we have:

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The codes are supposed to be self-adjusting. The suggested account codes and heads can be

maintained and the individual account items created in such a manner that the ranges are

maintained.

For example, all account classes could fall within the following ranges:

revenue within 1000-1999,

expense within 2000-2999,

current assets within 3000-3999,

current liabilities within 4000-4999,

non-current (fixed) assets within 5000-5999,

non-current (long-term) liabilities within 6000-6999 and

equity/capital/surpluses from 7000.

An ordered numbering system applies to the InventorySetUp as well.

Please refresh (i.e. Refresh All) after completing the chart of accounts as depicted below;

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POSTING OF ACCOUNTS

CashJournal

Accounting records are prepared or posted on the CashJournal Form (single/double click

CashJournal; to open).

CashJournal

On opening the CashJournal form, we have:

Please read the message before clicking OK to have:

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Please remember to click button on the CashJournal Form to have a blank form for new

entries to continue (no need for first time records).

Demonstration of posting with CashJournal

Let’s assume that we started business with cash of GH¢10,000.00 and purchased 50 bags of

cement worth GH¢1,400.00 from Mina Ventures. Forty (40) bags of cement were sold to

Kofi Amankwah for GH¢1,200.00.

The entries go like this;

The relevant accounts have been duly entered as debits and credits (-).

1. On starting the business; Cash was debited with GH¢10,000.00, duplicated; and

Capital credited with - GH¢10,000.00 –On purchasing stock; Purchases was debited

with GH¢1,400.00 duplicated; and Cash credited with - GH¢1,400.00

2. On making sales; Cash was debited with GH¢1,200.00 duplicated; and Sales credited

with - GH¢1,200.00

In order to ensure that double entry is complete (after single clicking the DUPLICATE button

to prefix amount with minus by clicking the Credit Button and changing the code with its

related account head), watch out for a zero (0) as total in the split table below the

CashJournal form. It is very important that a credit entry is preceded with a minus (-) sign.

The tab key and enter key can be used to navigate round the boxes. Relevant buttons for

navigation and other operations have been provided. Screen tips as well as a message box for

the duplication function for double entries are available.

Date is entered as dd/mm if System is set up to use English UK or English Ghana and mm/dd

for English United States.

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Short-cut keys can be used in facilitating entries.

Reports

The reports are capable of being printed and saved in other file formats such MS Excel and

PDF for other uses or as attachment to emails.

The reports produced based on the illustration:

CashJournal Report

Income Statement Report

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Working Capital Report

Trial Balance Report

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Ledger Report

Account Code is required for a ledger and when a code for cash, 3001, is entered;

The ledger for cash is displayed.

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Inventory Report

PAYROLL

The payroll interface is presented both in datasheet view and a tabular view:

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Datasheet view

Tabular view

In the event of preparing a payroll for April, a whole block of records for March could

be selected and copied for pasting after the last record in March for editing as April

records. This task should save a lot of time. All that needs done is to do the editing in

the tabular view (shown above) where enough buttons and other resources have been

provided.

While in the tabular mode, PAYE and SSF returns can be fetched. The task required

is that; as soon as the any of the buttons for PAYE ROLL or SSNIT ROLL is clicked

an input dialogue box request for the month appears. The last day of requested

payroll month is required to be entered in the format dd/mm/yy. It is therefore

suggested strongly that while preparing the payroll, the user is supposed to always

enter the last day of the month for which the payroll is being processed in the same

format. The last prompt requests for the year in a yyyy format.

The PAYE and SSNIT returns look like this;

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PAYE roll for April, 2017

SSNIT roll for April, 2017

Journal Entries for Posting

The journal entries required for posting based on the information used in the above

illustration for April, 2017 (hypothetical) is:

Basic Salary 3,200.00

Allowances 160.00

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Employers SSF (13%) 208.00

PAYE – GRA -315.10

SSF – SSNIT -296.00

Loan Deduction -20.00

Monthly Deduction -20.00

Welfare Deduction -28.00

Salary Payable -2,888.90

Total 0.00

A minus (-) is credit and otherwise is a debit. Conventional Debit/Credit is reduced to

Plus/Minus respectively so far as this system is concerned.

Payroll Titbits

Last day of month must be entered in the format; dd/mm/yy to display Year

Select zero (0) for a Non SSNIT contributor

SECURITY

It is possible to loose all your documents unexpectedly due to the presence of virus in your

system; loss of soft materials. How about the possibility of hardware loss through theft,

robbery, fire, damage etc.? That is all the more reason one needs to give prior attention to

matters of security in a computing environment.

To safeguard your work, please do the following from time to time:

Check on your system’s health status; Go to start and click on ‘control panel’ and then

on ‘Review your computer’s status’ or ‘Action Center’ to check on the effectiveness

of your Anti Virus Application.

Scan your system and memory sticks (pen drives) on suspicion of a virus.

Ensure that you have a backup and get an external storage device i.e. pen drive, hard

drive etc for backing up important documents. Hint: do not keep your system

(computer) and the secondary drive together.

Important documents or files may be attached to emails or uploaded to a trusted site

(e.g. Google Drive) on a dedicated remote server.

Save reports in a PDF to avoid unwanted alterations.

You may put a password on your documents to restrict or prevent access. (Hint:

please do remember the password).

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SHORTCUT KEYS

The following shortcut keys could help in saving time spent on performing some basic but

important tasks:

Ctrl+;(colon) Insert today’s date

Ctrl+’ Automatically insert contents in row above

Tab Move to the next box

CONCLUSION

The elosimple is a concept formulated for users desirous of preparing accounting records for

any entity. Elosimple has been transformed into a more user-friendly tool for growing

financial records. Therefore, what you might be using could well surpass the samples used in

this manual.

This concept gives the same level of convenience, speed and accuracy offered by any other

accounting system.

To avert the possibility of unexpected alterations and loss of data, the tables are hidden.

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This concept is very reliable as it is capable of preventing errors except for the fact that no

one else can be held accountable for your own inputs apart from your good self.

I am very grateful to all and sundry.

BIBLIOGRAPHY Microsoft. (n.d.). Accounting Campus.