Aakash-Business-Tool/C2/Account-Management/English

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Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Account Management in ABT.
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Learning Objectives /*Slide 2 */

In this tutorial, you will be able to:
  • Create Account
  • Edit Account
  • Delete Account


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System Requirements /*Slide 3 */

In this tutorial, I am using
  • ABT 1.0
  • Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean)
  • Rooted tablet


/*Slide 4 */ For more information visit

https://github.com/androportal/ABT

http://aakashlabs.org/docs/abt/index.html

Prerequisites

/*Slide 5*/

For this tutorial, you must be familiar with:
  • The principles of book keeping.
  • How to run and start ABT
  • How to Create a New Organization

If not, for relevant tutorials please visit http://spoken-tutorial.org

Start ABT Select ABT application on Android 4.2
ABT's Welcome screen We will see ABT's welcome screen
Tap on Select Existing Organization button We will choose Free Accounting Foundation from Select Existing Organization.
Tap on Login button Now, we shall tap on Login button and go ahead to the login screen.
Point to Login window Select admin for role.

Add username and password as admin.

Login as admin.



Point to Master Menu We are now on the master menu of ABT.



Point to Create Account menu Tap on Create Account menu.



Point to alert Set manual account code When you enter this page for the first time, the alert-box appears on the screen.


The alert prompts a dialog to set account code type i.e. manual or automated.


For manual account code, check the check-box.


Remember, this is only one time activity.



Create account screen An organization can have any number of accounts.



Point to Group name and Subgroup name Every account falls under a Group and optionally a Sub-Group.



Tap on dropdown of Group Name All the Group Names are available in Group Name drop-down.
Point to Corpus This organization is of the type NGO.

So we see Corpus in the Group name list.

If organization type is NGO, it will include Corpus in this list, otherwise Capital.



Point to Corpus,Current Liability, Loans(Liability) The accounts will have Credit opening balance under groups:

Corpus,Current Liability, Loans(Liability),Reserves.

Slide 6 Corpus is the principal amount of an NGO or a trust.

Capital is the amount invested in the business by the owner.

Liabilities denote the amount which a business owes to a another firm/person.



Point to Current Asset,Fixed Assets and Loans (Asset) The accounts will have Debit opening balance under groups:
  • Current Asset
  • Fixed Assets
  • Loans (Asset)
  • Investment
  • Miscellaneous Expenses


Slide 7 Fixed Assets represent everything which a business owns and has money value.


It is an asset used in business, for more than one year.


They are always shown as debit balance.



Point to Direct Income, Indirect Income, Direct Expense and Indirect Expense Accounts under groups:
  • Direct Expense
  • Direct Income
  • Indirect Expense
  • Indirect Income

will have zero opening balance.

Slide 8 and 9 Direct expenses are expenses related to production and purchasing of goods.


Direct Income is earned from the business or for the services provided.


Indirect Expenses - expenses incurred after the manufacturing process is over.


Indirect income is one that is earned by way of non-business activities.

eg. sale of old newspaper, sale of cartons.

Choose Current Asset from Group Name drop down. I will choose Current Asset as Group Name.



Point to Sub-Group Name->Tap on the dropdown of Sub-Group Name Depending upon the group, select required subgroup .


These are the subgroups provided by ABT.


We can add new sub group if required.

I shall choose Bank as subgroup



Point to Account name text box

->Enter SBI

Lets enter account name as SBI.
Point to Account Code Recall, we had preferred to create account codes manually earlier.


So here,we see a field for account code.



Point to Account Code ABT suggests an account code, as you can see.


We can edit the suggested code or we can even leave it as it is.



Point to Debit opening balance textbox Next, let's enter the Debit Opening Balance.


The default value as you can see is 0.00.


You can accept this or enter any positive or negative value.



Enter 5000 in Debit opening balance textbox I will enter 5000 in Debit opening balance textbox


You need to enter opening balance if:

  • You are setting up a new business
  • Its your first accounting package



Finally, bank balance will show the consolidated amount in the balance sheet.
Point to Total Debit Opening Balance The total of all debit Opening Balances entered so far will be displayed here.

Right now it is 0.00

It is so as we have not yet saved this account with its debit opening balance.



Point to Total Credit Opening Balance Next, total of all Credit Opening Balances so far entered is displayed here.


Right now it is 0.00


It is so as no account with credit opening balance has been saved

Point to Difference in Opening Balance Last field displays the difference between debit and credit opening balances.



Press Save button After filling all the necessary data, save the details.



Point to message Account SBI has been saved successfully A message appears that you have successfully created the account.



Point to Total Debit Opening Balance Note that the amount in the Total Debit Opening Balance has been updated.



Point to Total Debit Opening Balance and Total Credit Opening Balance Total Debit Opening Balance,


Total Credit Opening Balance,

depend on what type of opening balance you have entered.



Point to Total Debit Opening Balance, Total Credit Opening Balance and Difference in Opening Balances Note that,
  • Total debit opening balance
  • Total credit opening balance
  • Difference in opening balance are read-only fields.


Point to Group name Let us create one more account and select Direct Expense as group name.
Point to sub group Notice, the sub-group list does not have any sub-groups by default.
If you do not wish to create a sub-group, you can select No Sub-group option.

For this entry, let us select the Create New Subgroup option.



Point to new subgroup textbox As soon as we do this, a new text box appears.


Here, we can type the name of the subgroup we wish to create.


Let us type Salary in the text-box.



Point to subgroup list The created subgroup name appears in the subgroup list after saving the account.
Point to account name field Let us create an account Salary For Employees.
No opening balance An account under the group Direct expense cannot have an opening balance.

So, there is no provision to enter an opening balance for this account.



Point to account code field Notice that the Account Code is automatically generated.


You can change this account code if you wish.



More features – Editing Accounts Now what if we typed the name incorrectly? What do we do?


Well, don't worry at all! We can edit as well as delete the accounts.



Tap on Find / Edit tab When we tap on edit account tab, we see a list of accounts created till now.

We can edit them.



Point to Search Account By drop-down Now you can see a drop-down menu - Search Account By by tapping on it.


The account can be searched by either Account Name or Account Code.


There is no provision of this dropdown if Manual Account Codes was not checked.


Only Search by Account Name would have been visible



Select Account Name from the dropdown Let us search the account by Account Name.



Point to the Search result Tap on Salary For Employees



Point to prompt box A prompt box appears which asks whether we want to:
  • Edit Account Or
  • Delete Account


Tap on Edit button To edit name and opening balance of this account, let us tap on Edit Account.



Change Salary For Employees to Salary for Staffs Only account name and opening balance are editable.


Salary For Employees is under the Group Direct Expense.


Hence, we can only edit the account name and not the opening balance.


Let us modify the account name to Salary For Staffs.



Tap on Save button Save the changes.
Point to Confirmation Message Message appears saying changes saved successfully.



Point to Delete Account Now we will see how to delete an account.


We can delete only those accounts which are not under any transaction.

Tap on delete button Select an account Salary For Staffs from the list and tap on Delete option.

it will a prompt a confirmation diolog. Tap Yes to delete.



Point to message confirmation A confirmation message appears where we will choose Yes to delete.
Point to Success message A success message then appears saying desired account deleted.
We now successfully edited and deleted an account.



/*Slide 10*/

Summary

In this tutorial we have learnt about:
  • Create Account
  • Edit Account
  • Delete Account


/*Slide 11*/

Assignment

Create account with:
  • Account name - Purchase, Group name - Current Liability and Sub-group - Sundry Creditors for Purchase
  • Account name - Sales, Group name - Current Liability and Sub-group - Sundry Creditors for Expense


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Acknowledgement

/*Slide 14*/

* Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project


Thanks for joining * That’s it for this tutorial. This is Trupti Kini from IIT Bombay.
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Contributors and Content Editors

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