MYOB: How to create new Customer/Supplier/Employee/Personal

Step 1: Open MYOB > Command Center > Card Files > Card list

CREATE

On clicking Card List, the Card List Window will open. There will be 5 tabs at the top:
All Cards | Customer | Supplier | Employee | Personal


MYOB Card List
MYOB Card List

Say, you want to add New Customer. Click
Customer > New > In the Name field, enter Name, example Customer A > Click OK
New Customer will be listed in the Customer window. Now to add details, click EDIT
Now you can enter the details like Card ID, Location, Address, Phone, Email etc., click OK, done.

MYOB edit customer details
MYOB edit customer details
Card ID is optional, but will make things easier. As to the Card ID, I would suggest you have a system such as C001 for fist customer, C002 for second and so on.

SEARCH

In the card list, you can also search for particular supplier/customer etc. If you have already created some customers, suppliers, etc. clicking ALL CARDS will reveal all that you have created. If long list, you can also search by criteria. In the SEARCH BY, there is a drop down menu will pop up revealing:

First Name | Last Name/Co. Name | Card ID | Phone Number | Email | Address | City | State | Postcode | Country

Clicking on "All Cards" will enable you to search all cards by 
First Name | Last Name/Co. Name | Card ID | Phone Number | Email | Address | City | State | Postcode | Country





Accounts list imported from Accountant file. Reconciliation

Case study. A company has imported Company File from its accountant. Its latest balance sheet is till end of 2013. Examination of, say, the bank account balance in above Balance Sheet did not tally with the bank account in the Accounts List. Reason: The balance in the Balance Sheet is till 31 December 2013 The balance in the Accounts List is up to date till a specific day in 2014, that is why the 2 figures do not tally. What to do? Answer: Get the Accounts Transaction (Accural) Report. There you will see all the transactions for 2014 up to date of the Accounts List given by the Accountant. How: Command Center > Accounts > Reports > Account Transaction [Accural] > Display (see screenshot below)
MYOB Account Transactions Accural Report
MYOB Account Transactions Accural Report

MYOB Accounts List Choices

With MYOB you can either create your own Accounting List, import, or select from lists preloaded by MYOB according to these choices
Agriculture | Manufacturing | Retail | Service | Others | All

Selecting All will reveal a long list of business as follows (use ctrl+F to quickly find):
Advertising Agency
Advocate & Solicitor
Agricultural Business
Air Conditioning Contractor
Architect
Art Gallery
Associations & Clubs
Audio-Visual Equipment Rental
Bakery Banquet Facility
Beauty Salon
Bicycle Dealer
Boat Dealer
Book Store
Bridal Shop
Building Contractor
Cafe
Car Dealership
Cemetery
Chiropractor
Cleaning Service
Clinic
Clothing - Retail
Computer Dealer
Computer Consultant
Computer Service Bureau
Construction Company
Consulting Firm
Copy Centre
Craft Business
Dance Studio
Day Care Center
Decorator
Delicatessen
Dental Surgery
Designer
Developer
Distributor
D.I.Y Shop
Dry Cleaner
Educational Fund Tracking
Educational Institution
Electrical Contractor
Entertainer
xercise Equipment Dealer
Farm
Financial Services F
itness Center
Florist
Food Service
Formal Wear Rental & Sales
Freelance Writer
Funeral Palour
Furniture Dealer
Garden Centre/Nursery
Gift Shop
Graphic Artist
Gymnasium
Hairdresser
Hardware Store
Health Club
Health Food Store
Heating Contractor
Hobby Shop
Home Appliance Dealer
Home Business
Home Product Sales
Instructional Lessons
Insurance Agency
IT Consultant
Jewellery Store
Landscape
Legal Firm
Limousine Service
Liquor Store
Manufacturing
Mechanic
Medical Office
Motel/Hotel
Moving & Storage Company
Night Club
on-Profit Organisation
Optician/Optometrist
Partnership, Other
Pest Control Service
Pet Shop
Pharmacy
Photographer
Printer P
roperty Management
Publishing Company
Real Estate Agency
Religious Organisation
Restaurant
Retail Business, Other
Shoe Store
Sole Proprietorship
Sporting Goods Dealer
Travel Agency
Veterinarian
Video Store
Web Designer
Wholesale Business

Checklist of tasks to do in preparation for GST

Here is a checklist of task to complete before 1st April 2015, the start of GST implementation for Malaysia. Add a tick to the check box as each task is completed.

List of tasks to do before 1st April 2015

  Checklist: Tasks to complete to prepare for GST check
1 Back Up Existing Company File and Rename as GST Trial Run  
2 Create new account code list  
3 Export and Import GST Tax Code  
4 Link Account Set up For Tax Codes  
5 Link Account For Bad Debts  
6 Set up Company Information for GST  
7 Set up Card File with GST information – Customer and Supplier  
8 Set Up Inventory with GST information  
9 Enter Sample Transactions for Sales and Purchases  
10 View Bad Debt Relief  
11 View / print new format forms based on government requirement  
12 If your transaction involved multi currency, enter data with different currencies.  
13 View / print multi currency - new format forms based on government requirements.  
14 View GST 3 summary & GST 3 detail report  

MYOB Setup - Create new company file

Here is how to create a new company file. Open MYOB. This will open the MYOB Welcome window.


Click the CREATE tab, and the MYOB File Assistant window/wizard will open


The Introduction screen will first and will tell you that to create a company file, just tell MYOB about your company, answer a few questions about accounting year, choose accounting list.

You can click NEXT to continue or click on the grayed out options on the left (at any time you want to edit, just click the relevant tab):
Company Information
Accounting Information
Accounts List
Company File
Conclusion

Company Information: you must enter the MYOB serial number, Business Registration Number (required) and the rest like Company Name, GST Number, Phone Number, Fax Number, Email Address are optional.
Account Information:
Current Financial Year,
Last Month of Financial Year,
Conversion Month (beginning month of a Financial Year),
Number of Accounting Periods: 12 or 13. If you choose 13 Accounting Periods, MYOB will add an extra column for you to do adjustments, but the number of months remain 12 months.

Accounting List: You can Start with MYOB provided list, Import, Build Own List. Whichever selected, it is possible to add or delete later. Selecting MYOB List and Clicking NEXT will allow you to choose your Industrial Classification (Agriculture, Manufacturing, Retail, Service, Others, All).

Clicking any of the first 6 will reveal all the items preloaded by MYOB for that particular industry. If you select ALL, there will be a further drop down menu to select a long list of business ranging from Advertising Business to Wholesale Business.

To view the wholes list of businesses you can select for ALL to to MYOB Accounting List Choices.

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MYOB Accounting software - first step

The very first step for MYOB Accounting is always to open the Command Center. Once that is opened, at the top will be a menu bar. In the menu bar, there are
File | Edit | Lists | Command Centres | Setup | Reports | Windows | Help

Normally, once open, it will show the Command Centres tabs. There will be 6 tabs (for MYOB Accounting, more for other MYOB versions:

Accounts | Banking | Sales | Purchases | Inventory | Card File

Depending on which tab you clicked, there will be a cascading menu in the center which you can click depending on what you want to do.

The at the bottom, there will be more options:

To do list | Find Transactions | Reports | Analysis
At each option, there will be a down arrow which you can click to reveal more options.

Screenshot:

MYOB Command Centers
MYOB Command Centers

MYOB Premier Software Demo

MYOB Premier is more suited for medium size enterprises while MYOB Accounting is for smaller enterprises.
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MYOB New Company File Assistant

The first step of using MYOB for a business is to setup a Company File. This is so that when you make entries in your software, that information will be stored in a file called a company file.

You can create a company file using the New Company File Assistant. This assistant is a series of interactive windows that guide you through the process of creating a new company file. It will get you up and running in minutes.

When you create a company file, you record basic information about your business, such as the business name and your contact details. You must also specify the month and financial year in which you want to start recording transactions.

Before you can use the File Assistant, you will need to input your MYOB product Serial Number which is located on your registration card and on the back of your CD sleeve. If you are using a trial version, this step is not needed.

MYOB New Company File Assistant
MYOB New Company File Assistant

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