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Getting Started

What to expect in this course

This course is designed to accompany your Ajera implementation. Expect to receive general overviews of concepts and tasks that will be filled in by your consultant during the implementation. For more specific information, the course contains links topics in help , when needed.

What not to expect

This course does not provide a way to start using Ajera immediately. It is not a quick start that you can use in place of the implementation process with a consultant.

Prerequisites

Accounting 101 quick reference

An introduction to some fundamental accounting concepts for those who are new to accounting

Predefined settings

A list of predefined industry-standard settings that Ajera installs so you do not have to set up Ajera from scratch. As you set up Ajera, you will need to refer to these predefined settings.

How Ajera Works course

This course provides a big-picture understanding of how Ajera works, as well as getting into some of the nuts and bolts. It will help you understand how different tasks are related and how to best work with Ajera to perform your daily work.


In this course

Unit 1: Introduction

Lesson 1: Welcome to Ajera

Lesson 2: Implementation phases

Unit 2: Planning and discovery

Lesson 1: Charting a course

Lesson 2: Making preparations

Unit 3: Before your beginning balance date - Setup

Lesson 1: Key concepts

Lesson 2: Chart of accounts and departments

Lesson 3: Company preferences

Lesson 4: Bank accounts

Lesson 5: Activities

Lesson 6: Projects and billing

Lesson 7: Security

Lesson 8: Payroll

Lesson 9: Overhead groups

Lesson 10: Clients

Lesson 11: Employees

Lesson 12: Vendors

Unit 4: Before your beginning balance date - Entry and preparation

Lesson 1: Beginning balances

 

Lesson 2: Tasks and processes

 

Lesson 3: Data review and validation

Unit 5: After your beginning balance date

Lesson 1: Work in Ajera

Lesson 2: Advanced features

Predefined settings

Click here to view the predefined settings in the Ajera Getting Started Implementation Guide for the following:

  • Chart of accounts
  • Types
  • Activities
  • Overhead group
  • Security groups
  • Project items
  • Payroll items

 

 

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