Difference between revisions of "FrontAccounting"

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FrontAccounting (FA) is a free and open source accounting software. FA is a multi-locational, multi-user, multi-lingual, multi-currency web-based accounting system for the entire Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) chain written in PHP, using MySQL. FrontAccounting is developed by an international team.Senior developer Joe Hunt (@joe) lives in Sweden and Janusz Dobrowolski (@itronics) is in Poland, while other developers come from the USA, Canada, Egypt, Dubai, India, Australia, and elsewhere.

The contributors who helped create this tutorial series are - Sheetal Prabhu, Nirmala Venkat, Praveen Somu and Nancy Varkey - all from IIT Bombay. The effort has been moderated and coordinated by the Spoken Tutorial team, IIT Bombay.

Learners: Commerce students.

Basic Level

1. Installation of FrontAccounting on Linux OS
   • What is Front Accounting?
   • Uses and benefits
   • Front Accounting Interface
   • Installation on GNU Linux, Windows, Mac OS
   • FrontAccounting interface and the tabs
   • Using with setup icon in the interface
   • Company set up
   • User account setup
   • Access setup
   • Change in fiscal year
   • Void transaction
2. Setup in FA
   • Frontaccounting Setup
     • Company Setup
     • User Accounts Setup
     • Access Setup
     • Display Setup
     • Fiscal Years
3. Banking and General Ledger
   • GL Accounts
   • GL Account Groups
   • GL Account Classes
   • Journal Entry
   • Void a transaction
4. Items and Inventory
   • Items
   • Inventory
   • Units of Measure
   • Item Category
   • Sales Pricing
5. Sales in FA
   • Sales
   • Sales Types
   • Sales Persons
   • Sales Areas
   • Customers
   • Sales Quotation Entry
6. Purchases in FA
   • Add a new Suppliers
   • Make a Purchase Order Entry
   • Direct GRN
   • Create Suppliers invoice