Trial Balance Wizard

This will list how to create a Xero, Quickbooks or Sage Online Consolidated Trial Balance in seconds.

This wizard will create a Xero, QuickBooks or Sage Online Consolidated Trial Balance in seconds, using your Sage Accounting, Xero or QuickBooks accounting information.

Wizard RESULTS - Consolidated Trial Balance Report:

Formating Options

Trial Balance aged by Accounting Quarters for two companies.
Cost Centres can be optionally analysed accross or down the sheet.
You can then customise your self, add Data from other sources, graphs, conditional formating etc.

Step 1 - Install Consolidated XL

Follow the Gettings Started to install Consolidated XL into Excel for Office 365.

From the Consolidated Panel, Log in using Xero, QuickBooks or Office 365 credentials.

Step 2 - Connect to Xero, QuickBooks or Sage Company

Next Connect to Xero, QuickBooks or Sage Company to sync with your own data, and take advantage of a 5 day evaluation period.

You laways have access to 3 demo companies, for you to try out while you are waiting for your data is synced, encrypted, and processed.

Step 3 - Start Wizard

Press the Consolidated XL button on the "Home" toolbar, within excel, to view the Consolidated XL task panel.

Next selected "Wizards" from the menu and then "Trial Balance".

Select option from Wizard Panel

Select option from Wizard Panel

Step 4 - Select Companies

The first page summaries the wizard’s function. Press [Next]

The second page allows you to select one or more companies:

Select one or more Companies

Select one or more Companies

Step 5 - Set from which Year/Period

Next set the Year/Period to run the report for:

Select age the periods, and number of years to list

Set Trial Balance Year/Period.

Step 6 - Format Options

The final page allows you perform some format options, such as the number of decimal places, and filter out an GL Accounts which are redundant (no value for x years):

Formating Options

Formatting Options

Step 7 - Finish

When [Create] is pressed, Consolidated XL creates a sheet called "CXL Lookups" which lists a consolidated list of GL accounts companies using the CXL.CodeSpill() function.

Now you can customise the spreadsheet it creates. Add data, conditional formating, charts, etc. You can easily rearange the data since the values in the cells are retrieved by the GL codes listed in column B and the period and const centre data in the rows 3-8 at the top of the sheet.

Formating Options

The result of the Wizard

Formating Options

Trial Balance aged by Accounting Quarters for two companies.

Step 8 - Use

When the sheet is opened Consolidated XL will refresh the data in a mater of seconds to give you the lastest information in your sheet.

Clicking on CXL figures, and selecting "Charts" or "Trans" will drill down into the data, allowing you to visualise trends or view the detail:

Formating Options

Drill down to Quick Charts to see trends
Pie Chart broken down into Cost Centres
Use [Options] menu to copy charts and paste into e-mail etc.

Formating Options

Drill down to Journals for selected cell period and GL Account.
Click on link to view Journal detail.
Use [Options] menu to copy and paste Transaction list into sheet