Intro > Screen Shots > Part B - Balance Sheet
ZAP Accounting Software is a two file, open source software system for Small Business Accounting. Part A of the system is this Income Statement and Transaction Ledger file. Part B of the system contains full Balance Sheet Data. See Info1 > ScreenShots > Part A for more information about this two file system if you aren't by now familiar with what's going on.
Home Tab
As mentioned in the screen shots for Part A, each DIY Software Solution will have a "Home" tab as the first tab in the workbook. This gives the general outline of what is contained in the file. This is all manually configured on this home tab. It is not pro grammatically doing inventory of the tabs. We do in fact have technology built to auto inventory the tabs, but there are some issues with connecting that to the tab descriptions and such, and we want to keep this simple. Further down on this page are custom settings for the user as well as other general info about this particular software solution. The block quote below is found lower on this home page...
Balance Sheet Data Tab
This Balance Sheet Data worksheet is where the balance sheet crosschecking magic happens. This requires some education and this is going to be the hardest page for a novice (and even and advanced user) to troubleshoot if the values don't cross check as they should.
Starting a new company and keeping up with this can be easier than trying to carry numbers over from another system as some cheating has to happen in a few cells to get caught up. Worst case, until you get the hang of this, get your transactions into your ledgers, get your income statements done and ask your CPA for assistance with this. This is a piece of cake for those in the Accounting business.
Again, all the colors on this are customizable. At the bottom of this page is very, very basic info about the equations that are being executed on the data being entered.
Starting a new company and keeping up with this can be easier than trying to carry numbers over from another system as some cheating has to happen in a few cells to get caught up. Worst case, until you get the hang of this, get your transactions into your ledgers, get your income statements done and ask your CPA for assistance with this. This is a piece of cake for those in the Accounting business.
Again, all the colors on this are customizable. At the bottom of this page is very, very basic info about the equations that are being executed on the data being entered.
Balance Sheet Report
There is NOTHING automated about this report. All this data is manually keyed in from the prior page. While we "could" automated it easily, asking it to grab values from the prior page with a toggled setting, anything automated is something that can break and given this is something you may only be preparing once per year, and given you are just copying values from the prior tab, manual it is. You can customize this in absolutely any way you'd like (layout, fonts colors, etc)