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Big Red Book Accounts v5
Making the Most of the Book Enquiry
The Book Enquiry is a powerful enquiry and reporting tool.
For instance, the optional User Defined Fields in each book can be used to code transactions in such a way
as to assist reporting using the sub-totalling facility. As an example, coding each Purchases Book entry with
a Project Number a User Defined Field would allow sub-totals of costs associated with multiple projects to
be extracted with Book Enquiry. This is obviously not a substitute for a Job Costing system but provides a
simple method of monitoring project costs. The same approach can in general be used to facilitate
sub-analysis of any of the 14 Analysis Categories allowed in each book.
If you intend to use Book Enquiry for selecting or sub-totalling transactions based on a Name or Detail field it
is very important that Names and/or Descriptions are entered
in a consistent form
. Use of the
Abbreviations
feature is the surest way of maintaining consistency of entry.
The Book Enquiry facility is also used on two sets of data which are not really ‘books’ at all, namely
Invoice
Details
and the
Audit Trail.
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