Financial Management

Expenses — record and report

Rent, freight, electricity, tea for the shop: the money that leaves without an invoice attached to a customer, recorded where the rest of your books already are.

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The half of the books that hides

Sales are recorded because a customer is waiting for a bill. Expenses have no such pressure, which is why they end up in a drawer of receipts and a rough figure at the end of the year — and why a business that looks profitable on sales often is not.

An expense here takes a category, an amount and the account it was paid from, with the bill attached if there is one. Categorised, it is answerable: what did freight cost last quarter, what is rent running at, where did the month actually go.

Recording a spend

  1. 1Add the expense

    Amount, date and what it was for.

  2. 2Give it a category

    Your own list — rent, freight, salary, whatever you track.

  3. 3Attach the bill

    Upload the receipt so it is with the entry, not in a drawer.

  4. 4Read it back

    Category-wise and period-wise, in the expense reports.

Inside Financial Management

The money side of the business: what has been billed, what has been collected, what is still owed, and what the tax on all of it comes to. Party ledgers sit at the centre — every bill and every payment lands on somebody’s khata, and the balance there is the number you act on.

Most of this area runs on its own once bills are being raised: ledgers update as you bill, reminders go out on their due dates, and the GST reports are built from what is already recorded.

What it works with

Where the money left from, and what the spending did to the profit.

Reports it feeds

Expense general · Expense category-wise · Expense transaction · Cash flow analysis

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Questions people ask

Can I keep my own expense categories?

Yes — categories are yours to define, and every expense is recorded against one.

Can I keep the receipt with the entry?

Yes, the bill can be uploaded against the expense rather than kept on paper.

Where do expenses show up afterwards?

In the expense reports — general, category-wise and transaction — and in the cash-flow picture of the business.

Record what goes out, not just what comes in

A month’s profit is the two sides together, and one of them is usually the one nobody wrote down.