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1 From the Administration menu, select GL. This should bring up the GL menu in the menu bar.
2 Select Chart of Accounts from the GL menu. This will bring up the Chart of Accounts window.
3 Select the entry to edit and click Modify. This will bring up the GL Account editing window.
4 Click
in this window.
5 Modify the information as needed.
6 Click
in the toolbar.
1 From the Administration menu, select GL. This should bring up the GL menu in the menu bar.
2 Select Chart of Accounts from the GL menu. This will bring up the Chart of Accounts window.
3 Select the account and click Modify. This will bring up the GL Account editing window.
4 Click on the GL Account History button in the toolbar. This will display a window showing the balance of the account during various months.
1 From the Administration menu, select GL. This should bring up the GL menu in the menu bar.
2 Select Chart of Accounts from the GL menu. This will bring up the Chart of Accounts window.
3 Select the account and click Modify. This will bring up the GL Account editing window.
4 Click on the Account Details button in the toolbar. This will display dialog asking for two dates to restrict the report to.
5 Enter the dates.
6 A window with a record of every transaction that falls between the entered dates will appear.
1 From the Administration menu, select GL. This should bring up the GL menu in the menu bar.
2 Select Journal Entry from the GL menu. This will bring up the GL Journal Entry window.
3 Click
in the toolbar of this window.
4 Enter the appropriate information.
5 Click Pending in the toolbar to indicate that the entry is to be recorded but not posted. Otherwise, click on Post in the toolbar.
1 From the Administration menu, select GL. This should bring up the GL menu in the menu bar.
2 Select GL Entries from the GL menu. This will bring up a dialog box.
3 Enter two dates in the dialog box to restrict the search to. Make sure that the target journal entry falls between these dates.
This will bring up the General Ledger Entries window.
4 Choose the entry to reverse and click Select. This will bring up the GL Journal Entry editing window.
5 Click Reverse in the toolbar of this window.
1 From the Administration menu, select GL. This should bring up the GL menu in the menu bar.
2 Select GL Entries from the GL menu. This will bring up a dialog box.
3 Enter two dates in the dialog box to restrict the search to.
This will bring up a list of the various transactions that fall between the two dates entered.
There are many summarizing functions built into MIRROR. Each will produce slightly different results. All can be accessed from the GL menu. If the GL menu is not already in the menu bar, choose Administration » GL from the MIRROR menu.
1 If you choose Trial Balance:
Produces a report listing all general ledger accounts, their trial balances, and the total balances for all accounts.
2 If you choose Balance Sheet:
Produces a balance sheet report. This report will divide the bank accounts into their respective categories (i.e. Current Assets, Fixed Assets, Current Liabilities, Long Term Liabilities, Owner Equity, Operation Revenue, Cost of Sales and Operation Expense). In addition, the total liabilities and assets for these accounts is totaled at the bottom of the report.
3 If you choose Income Statement:
There are two options in this sub-menu: Report and Analysis.
The first option, Report, [NF].
The other option, Analysis, will display a window listing total revenues and expenses from various accounts.
1 From the Administration menu, select GL. This should bring up the GL menu in the menu bar.
2 Select Recurring Journal Entries from the GL menu. This will bring up the Recurring Journal Entries window.
3 Click Modify in the window. This will bring up the GL Journal Entry editor window.
4 Click
5 Enter the appropriate data into the various fields.
6 Click
1 From the Administration menu, select GL. This should bring up the GL menu in the menu bar.
2 Select Recurring Journal Entries from the GL menu. This will bring up the Recurring Journal Entries window.
3 Select the entry to modify from the list.
4 Click Modify in the window. This will bring up the GL Journal Entry editor window.
5 Click
6 Enter the appropriate data into the various fields.
7 Click
1 From the Administration menu, select GL. This should bring up the GL menu in the menu bar.
2 Select Recurring Journal Entries from the GL menu. This will bring up the Recurring Journal Entries window.
3 Select the entry to delete from the list.
4 Click Modify in the window. This will bring up the GL Journal Entry editor window.
5 Click
in the toolbar of this window.
1 From the Administration menu, select GL. This should bring up the GL menu in the menu bar.
2 Select Close » Close Month from the GL menu. This will bring up a window with a list of months.
3 Select the month to close and click OK.
1 From the Administration menu, select GL. This should bring up the GL menu in the menu bar.
2 Select Close » Close Year from the GL menu.
1 From the Administration menu, select GL. This should bring up the GL menu in the menu bar.
2 Select GL Setup from the GL menu. This will bring up the General Ledger setup window.
3 Click
4 Check or un-check the box marked, Locked.
5 Click
1 From the Administration menu, select GL. This should bring up the GL menu in the menu bar.
2 Select GL Setup from the GL menu. This will bring up the General Ledger setup window.
3 Click the Opening Balances button in the toolbar of this window. This will bring up the GL Opening Balance window.
4 Click
5 Modify the balances as required.
6 Click
This feature will compare the records entered into this electronic database with the updated balance supplied by the bank at each bank statement.
1 From the Administration menu, select GL. This should bring up the GL menu in the menu bar.
2 Select Reconcile... from the GL menu.
This will bring up a dialog box asking for the account to reconcile.
3 Enter the account number of the account to reconcile and click OK.
This will bring up a dialog box asking for two dates to restrict the search for transactions for.
4 Enter the two dates and click OK. This will bring up a window entitled, Reconcile Account X.
5 Click
6 Enter the various statement dates and account balances.
Specifically, the date of the last bank statement and the current bank statement and the balances of the account at the time of the last statement and the balance now (according to the current statement).
7 Select the various transactions to clear. Use the shift key to select several adjacent transactions or the command key to select non-adjacent ones.
8 Click on the Calc button at the bottom right corner of the window.
This will cause the program to calculate the new balance by taking the previous balance and factoring in the selected transactions. A window will appear indicating the difference between the calculated balance and the bank's balance.
If the difference is $0.00, then the account is fine. Otherwise, there is a discrepancy between the records entered and the bank's recorded transactions.
9 If the difference is $0.00, then click Update in this window to update your balance.
