Companies

Legal entities inside a client: currency, parent, and which company a bank account or journal belongs to.

How-toFor Firm staff, Bookkeepers, Business owners

Firm, client, company

A company is a legal entity that files returns and owns bank accounts. It sits under a client. Client Settings → Companies is the register. The company switcher in the header sets scope for the page you are on; it is not a global period filter.

Common questions

I added a company and the books are empty.

That is expected. Opening balances, the chart, and bank accounts are per company. Use first-week setup on the new entity.

See alsoYour first week in myBBS

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