The sandbox sheet
The sandbox sheet is one I use very often, for these main purposes:
- To try out chains of functions to make sure they do what I intend.
- To bounce ideas off a colleague.
- To debug a function in one of my main sheets.
The sheets in detail
- instructions sheet: Any instructions such as what to do monthly, which source to import exchange rates from, etc., can go here.
- current page: sandbox sheet: Has no incidence on your reporting, can be used to test ideas, functions.
- variables sheet: Global variables related to the document such as your base currency.
- verification sheet: Consolidations verification inforation from all other sheets, and makes a master verification cell available to all sheets. If it is zero, checks pass; if it is not zero, there are errors.
- chart sheet: The chart of accounts and how much money is in each account. A good overview of your assets, liabilities, expenses and income.
- facets sheet: Allows grouping of accounts in the chart of accounts.
- journal sheet: The journal of operations which is generated automatically from the imported data (sheets starting with "imp") via the intermediate sheet intJournal. Do not modify this directly.
- summary sheet: Running balance sheet, and any other high-level reporting, for the desired period. This sheet also lets you select a period and currency for all your reporting.
- acctStatement sheet: View operations related to a single account in the desired period, in the desired currency.
- log sheet: Supports the good practice of logging important work done on the document, for example monthly importing of data from your bank.
- partners sheet: All your partners.
- ACMEBANK sheet: Most organizations will import data from various sources; this is an example import short.
- PAYMENTS sheet: Example data import sheet allowing you to enter payments.
- MANUAL sheet: For "exceptional" operations which do not fall into any of your data entry sheets.
- LINE sheet: For "exceptional" operations which do not fall into any of your data entry sheets.
- INVOICES sheet: Display and print invoices.
- Invoice sheet: View and print an invoice.
- intJournal sheet: An intermediate sheet which colladates data from "imp" sheets and prepares them for the automated journal.
- forex sheet: Define your available currencies, and import daily rates.