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I am the new one here and would like to say hallo to everybody. I learn English as a second language. I hope you don't mind that. My question refers to the way you guys practice. Many people use excel and T accounts for practicing. If you have transactions numbered let's say from 1 to 12 you put number close to the entry so that you know what transaction your entry refers to. Well, if you have many T accounts it takes some time to find corresponding entry. You have to check every T account for transaction number you are looking for. It seems quite annoying , at least to me. In Osbourne books they teach you that every entry consists of date, details and amount. In ' details' you put the name of corresponding account. I find it very helpful but do you guys put the name of corresponding account in ' details' section of your entry when you do exercises in excel ? Are there any computer programs that require that you put the name of corresponding account in ' details' section of your entry?
I am the new one here and would like to say hallo to everybody. I learn English as a second language. I hope you don't mind that. My question refers to the way you guys practice. Many people use excel and T accounts for practicing. If you have transactions numbered let's say from 1 to 12 you put number close to the entry so that you know what transaction your entry refers to. Well, if you have many T accounts it takes some time to find corresponding entry. You have to check every T account for transaction number you are looking for. It seems quite annoying , at least to me. In Osbourne books they teach you that every entry consists of date, details and amount. In ' details' you put the name of corresponding account. I find it very helpful but do you guys put the name of corresponding account in ' details' section of your entry when you do exercises in excel ? Are there any computer programs that require that you put the name of corresponding account in ' details' section of your entry?
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It may be different in industry.
Out of interest @MarieNoelle had the chartered accountants you refer to previously completed AAT?
I have worked in practice and we would find that our graduates who enrolled straight in to ACA struggled with double-entry. But they were the ones out on audit and therefore didn't need to know how to do it.
Edit: to answer your question, no they qualified straight with ACA but it would have been in the early 1990's.
Computerised systems take most of the "grunt" out, but when things go wrong, they really go wrong. To put it right you need an impeccable knowledge of credits, debits and double entry. I am still seen, particualry during the accounts closure season, drawing up "T" accounts in an attempt to work out what the computerised sytems have done, what they should have done and the journal entries needed to correct it.