General Ledger Accounting
Accounting Basics
- Accounting
- Debits and Credits
- Control Accounts
- PCLaw Lawyer Types
- Finding the Start of Fiscal Year Date
General Ledger
- Producing Financial Statements
- Creating G/L Accounts
- Viewing the G/L Chart of Accounts
- Adding a New General Ledger (GL) Account
- G/L Control Accounts
- Identifying G/L Control Accounts in Versions 9.20 and Higher
- Identifying G/L Control Accounts in Versions 9.0 to 9.10
- Chart of Common G/L Control and Reserved Accounts
- Creating Parent G/L Accounts
- Assigning Sub Accounts to Parent G/L Accounts
- Using and Working with Expense Recovery Accounts
- Adding or Changing a G/L Adjustment
- Opening Balances
- Trust Funds Owed (2100) Account
- Client Disb. Clearing Account
- Changing the Default Client Disbursement Clearing Account
- General Ledger Category
- Send G/L Data to Accountant
- Import G/L Adjustments from Accountant
End of Month
- Closing the Month
- Exporting Month-End Balances to Third Party Applications
- Balances Do Not Include All Entries for the Month
End of Year
Error Messages and Troubleshooting
- You Are Already Running a General Ledger Function
- Someone Else Is in PCLaw
- Unable to Get Balance Information
- GL Account out of Balance with its Corresponding Journal
- The General Bank Journal Balance is Wrong but the G/L Balance is Correct
- Budget Entries are Not Saved and Related Reports Return Zero Values
- Balance Sheet Does Not Balance Because an Expense Account was Changed to an Asset Account
- The Retrieve From Window Does Not Open
- Both the Long and Short Term Sections of the Balance Sheet Contain the Liability Account
- Printing a List of G/L Accounts Crashes PCLaw
- G/L Functions and Financial Statements Truncate Bank Account Names to 20 Characters
