Terminology for Sage (or similar)

System
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edited June 18 in AAT student discussion
This question is completely and utterly trivial, but I thought I'd ask anyway (cos I'm curious).

When I enter transactions into Sage, I refer to it as "posting". My new boss, however, refers to it as "booking". Both of these I think are confusing (my term can also mean sending mail - his can mean buying a holiday!)

I was wondering - how many other expressions are there for the same thing? what do other people out there use?

You can tell I'm bored :-)

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  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    I use several terms depending on what the transactions are;

    When I'm entering orders/raising invoices I refer to it as "loading" which is a very commonly used term (at least in the manufacturing industry) for this kind of thing.

    When I'm dealing with receipts, payments and journals, I refer to it as "posting" - again a very common accounting term.

    When I'm dealing with payments made on account (i.e. not previously made against specific invoices), I refer to it as "allocating".

    Never heard of the term "booking" before so feel free to tell your boss I called him a weirdo!

    Regards,

    Robert
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    When I first started work (not that long ago actually :lol: ) I worked for a plant hire/building firm. They referred to posting information onto a computer such as invoices/journals etc as putting it "on the box". Back then the computers weren't like they are now they were huge IBM monsters.

    Very weird.
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    When I started work - long before you Steve, entering information was referred to as punching - which came from when a hole was punched in a tape and sent off to the computer centre for posting! The terminal I worked at was as big as a desk :shock: . (This was in banking - accountants were probably still on ledger books) :lol:
    At my next job keyed in, now I just refer to entering it and posting, although if I say the invoives haven't been posted yet I can see people looking at me as if to say "What you haven't sent them off?"
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    Way back in the old days(1970/71) of the dreaded Borroughs accounting machines, when everything was on ledger cards we still referred to "posting" on the accounts cards.(That was before even you started work, Jan)
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    What memories - the old Burroughs machine, sqeezing past to get behind it( I had a permanent bruise on my thigh!), getting rained on when the roof light leaked :shock: (H&S, what was that?).

    The adding machine was brill too, didn't have calculators. Great monster of a machine with rows of numbers, press the last figure in slightly harder than the rest and it added the figure in - get it wrong at your peril. Had to put all the cheques that came in into alpha order, then add up to see if it agreed with the computer print out - which had been sent out to all the branches from Computer Centre in Leeds. Then somebody checked each signature to make sure it was genuine :!:

    Hell, am I making myself sound old :lol::lol: ?
    Sorry if I've digressed...
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    Jan, you're sounding nearly as old as me :lol:

    The old adding machines, cast iron manual machines. Then along came the little blue/grey olivetti with the side handle and the central lever(Knob) to select plus/minus etc. What memories :lol:


    Edit: Maybe we should rename this thread to "Wallowing in nostalgia"?
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    Not quite as old as you Peter :lol: , but I've just spent the weekend organising a get together for a group of "schoolfriends" who will be celebrating a special birthday next year.
  • System
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    Does anyone remember the abacus?

    Ah the good old days. Also I find you can't get a good quill pen anywhere these days. Those swans have got loads of feathers, I only want two (for now) just in case the nib breaks on the first one.
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    I've got some spare quills if you really know how to use them. Need to carry a razor sharp penknife as well, problem is the Bow Street Runners don't like you carrying them in your pocket.

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