If you decide to enter all transactions for the current financial year

You will need to set up each customer or supplier who had open sales or purchases at the start of the financial year.

You have several options for setting up these customers and suppliers.

• If you have your customers and suppliers in CSV format then you can load them using the Import Customers and Import Suppliers screens.
• If you have your customers and suppliers recorded in the contacts application on your iOS device then you can create each customer and supplier record manually and then import the details for the customer or supplier from the contacts application.
  (This is achieved by manually creating each customer record and then pressing the blue disclosure button next to the "Customer Name" or "Supplier Name" field to import the details from the contacts application on the iOS device.)
• You can manually enter each customer and supplier into Bookkeeping.

Once your customers and suppliers have been set up you will need to enter any sales and purchases that were open at the start of the financial year. At the conclusion of this exercise the balance sheet produced by Bookkeeping should match the balance sheet that you used to set up the program.

The next step is to enter each sale, purchase, receipt, payment, return, refund, and general journal entry that has occurred since the start of the financial year.

Once you have completed doing this you should run a balance sheet and profit and loss statement from your old program as of the date that you are converting and compare this with the balance sheet and income statement reports in Bookkeeping to ensure that they match.

If they do not match then you will need to go back and check for errors entering the transactions, transactions entered twice, or transactions that have been missed.

You should check that the customer and supplier balances match in Bookkeeping and your old program. If they do not then you will need to check for mistakes in entering the information into Bookkeeping.

If the balance sheet and profit and loss statement matches with Bookkeeping and the customer and supplier balances match then you are ready to start using the Bookkeeping program and entering new transactions.