Instruction
Instruction video: Accounting Reports
1. View the journal-related information in the dashboard menu.
Go to Accounting app > Dashboard, choose any kanban. Each kanban card is correlative with one journal in the Accounting app at this interface.
2. View the receivable report on the customer's contact.
Go to Accounting app > Customers > Customers, press Customer Ledger.
3. View the accounting reports.
Go to Accounting ‣ Reporting. The menu groups the reports as follows:
- Statement Reports: Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss, Cash Flow Statement, Executive Summary and Tax Report.
- Audit Reports: General Ledger, Trial Balance and Journal Items Analysis.
- Partner Reports: Partner Ledger, Aged Receivable and Aged Payable.
- Management: Invoice Analysis, Invoice & Bill Analysis, Analytic Report and Transfer / Allocation Analysis.
The groups Vietnam Accounting Reports and Invoice Lists, and the entries Assets and Asset Depreciation of Management, appear when the matching modules are installed.
- Note: In order to observer the financial reports according to Vietnam Accounting Standards (VAS), you need install module l10n_vn_viin_account_reports.
4. Set how a report shows negative amounts.
An accounting manager goes to Accounting ‣ Configuration ‣ Accounting Reports, opens a report and selects the tab Options. Tick Negative Amounts in Parentheses to show a negative amount as (1,000) instead of -1,000. The setting applies on screen, in the PDF and in the XLSX file of the report. The Vietnam statements are set this way, as statutory financial statements require.
5. Export a report to XLSX.
Open a report and press XLSX.
- The sheet is named after the report. A long name is cut at a whole word within the 31 characters Excel allows, for instance Statement of Financial Position.
- The title of the sheet shows the form code of a statutory statement as written, for instance B01-DN.
- The percentage column of a comparison shows the % sign after each value.
- The last rows carry the signature captions: Prepared By, Chief Accountant and Director/CEO. A statutory statement of the Vietnam module carries the captions of its own form: Preparer, Chief Accountant and Legal Representative.
6. Read the Trial Balance.
Go to Accounting ‣ Reporting ‣ Audit Reports ‣ Trial Balance.
- An account with the option Has balance at both debit and credit? (receivables and payables, for example) is balanced partner by partner before the totals are taken. Contacts of one company count as one partner: the balance is taken for the commercial partner, within each legal entity. The account therefore shows debit balances and credit balances side by side. An archived account keeps its partner balances, so the report stays the same after an account is archived. All other accounts are balanced per company.
- When you select a parent company together with its branches, the message The rows of a parent company include the figures of its selected branches. appears above the report. A branch posts on the accounts of its parent company, so it has no row of its own: its figures are in the rows of the parent.
7. Developer mode.
Two tools of a report are shown in developer mode only, so accountants read the statements without them:
- The gear button after the filters of the report opens the configuration of the report: its lines, columns and options.
- The information icon after the figure of a line opens a popover with the type of formula, the formula and the value of the line.
Activate the developer mode to see them.