Xero Cloud Training Course Contents

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The workshop will provide participants with the skills and knowledge required to manage their day to day business transactions and generate reports using Xero Cloud Computing.This training is a nationally accredited unit Manage Finances (BSBFIM601) and will be delivered as part of the Certificate IV in Bookkeeping (FNS40215).
Training will also include essential business processes using Xero software and how to set up your accounts, tax codes, contacts and inventory.This workshop will take you from entering sales and purchases right through to reconciling the bank account and generating reports. 
Unit 1: GETTING STARTED WITH XERO: 
Overview of Xero, Starting Xero in Microsoft windows , The Xero screen, Navigating the command centre ,Using the command centre, Finding transactions, Company viability and Other basic things to know about Xero.
Unit 2: Setting up Xero Basics: 
When you set up an organisation, there are certain details that should be added before the organisation is used. In this session, you will learn how to enter these basic settings. Its includes enter organisation settings, enter financial settings, enter a conversion date, change user access, add users, view user activity. 
Unit 3: Chart of accounts
It serves as the framework for the organisation, and is how we categorise transactions as they occur in the day-to-day running of a business. Each time a transaction occurs in the organisation, the balance of an account will either increase or decrease. its cover understand the purpose of the chart of accounts, import a chart of accounts, add an account, edit an account, delete / archive an account, update a tax rate.
Unit 4: Bank Accounts
When you add a bank account, it is automatically added to your Chart of Accounts. It will be assigned the account type Bank Account, under the Asset class.
Unit 5: Contacts
Contacts in Xero stores all of an organisation’s contacts. A contact can be a customer, supplier or both.
Unit 6: Inventory
If your organisation buys or sells a product or service, you can add these as Inventory Items.
At a minimum, you can use Inventory Items to save details about a product or service that you buy or sell to allow for quick and consistent entry into your invoices or bills.
Unit 7: Receiving Money: Sales
Knowledge of how much cash will be available at any given time, can help an organisation make informed business decisions. As such, understanding how much money is due to come in, and when, from invoices is extremely important information.The Sales Dashboard provides an overview of any quotes and invoices that are outstanding, their value, and when they are due.Its cover understand the components of the sales dashboard, add a conversion balance for the Accounts Receivable account, enter a sales invoice, enter a repeating invoice, understand each invoice status. 
Unit 8: Spending Money: Purchases
The Purchases Dashboard provides insights into how much money is due to be spent for business purchases.
This information is extremely valuable to an organisation, as it will give an understanding of what the outgoing cash commitments are over time. Its cover understand the components of the purchases dashboard, set the conversion balance for accounts payable, enter a purchase, enter a repeating purchase, understand each status for a purchases bill.
Unit 9: Fixed Assets
If your organisation has or acquires fixed assets, you can record and depreciate them within Xero. Set up the Fixed Asset Register, Record a new fixed asset, Edit and dispose of a fixed asset, using book values.
Unit 10: Bank Reconciliation

Bank reconciliation is the process of matching transactions from a bank account, with general ledger transactions recorded for the organisation.Each transaction that goes through the business bank accounts, must be matched with a corresponding entry that records the specific business purpose of that transaction. These transactions form the basis for other accounting tasks, such as performance and compliance reporting.
Unit 11: Journal Entries
Manual journals are used by Accountants and Bookkeepers who need to record debits and credits directly in the general ledger. Manual journals can be used to reallocate balances between accounts, record accrued expenses or completed work not invoiced.
Manual Journals are accessible from the Adviser menu by those users who have the Adviser user role
Unit 12: Reporting
Xero gives you the ability to run a variety of financial performance, financial position, detail and tax reports in real time.
 

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