Accounting and Non-Accounting Terminology

If you are not familiar with accounting terms and principles, you can choose to substitute the accounting terms on screen with simple everyday language.

Likewise, if accountants and other professionals are more comfortable using accounting terms, they can switch the display to only show accounting terms.

Accounting Terms

Equivalent Non-Accounting Terms

General Journal

General Journal window

General Ledger

Accounts window

Journal

Transaction window

Journal entry

Transaction

Journal report

Transaction Details report

Ledger

List of records (accounts, vendors, customers, employees, inventory and service items, or projects)

Module (a set of records and the transactions related to it)

Payables (on graphs)

Unpaid purchases

Payables Ledger

Vendors and Purchases module; vendor list

Post

Process

Receivables (on graphs)

Unpaid sales; sales due

Receivables Ledger

Customers and Sales module; customer list

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