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Balances per account, debtors and creditors, from the live ledger.
Tool
The books, kept as you work
Every invoice, payment, deposit, expense and garage bill posts to a double-entry ledger as it happens. The VAT return figures, journals and the year-end export are there for your accountant, without a second system.
- Double-entry ledger
- VAT return figures
- Year-end export
What it does
What accounting and HMRC do
The ledger follows UK practice: a chart of accounts you can rename, postings for every money event, journals for adjustments, bank balances from the import, and reports by tax year. The export gives your accountant the lot in a form they can use.
Who uses it
Owner
Profit by month, what the fleet owes and is owed, without waiting for the accountant.
Bookkeeper
Journals, the bank reconciled, VAT figures ready for the return.
Accountant
A clean year-end export with every posting and its source document.
What is in it
- Chart of accounts with UK defaults
- Automatic postings from invoices, payments, deposits, expenses and bills
- Journals for adjustments
- Bank balances from the statement import
- VAT return figures by period, if you are registered
- Reports by tax year and a year-end export
- Loans and assets per van
Capabilities
What you can do
Prepare the VAT return
Box figures for the period from the postings, ready to copy into your submission.
Hand over the year end
Export the year with every posting and its document for your accountant.
Adjust with journals
Accruals, corrections and depreciation as journals, with who posted them and why.
On screen
Banking that reconciles
The banking page imports your statement, matches lines to invoices, bills and transfers, and shows what is left to explain. Balances flow to the ledger so the books agree with the bank.
- Statement import
- Matching by reference
- Unexplained lines to clear
Questions
Questions about accounting and HMRC
Does it file with HMRC?
It prepares the VAT return figures and the year-end export; filing is done by you or your accountant with your usual software. There is no payroll or PAYE in GoVantage.
Is it included in Core?
No. Invoicing and payments are in Core; the ledger, VAT figures and year-end export are this tool, at a flat monthly price.
Can my accountant log in?
Yes. Give them a staff seat with a finance role, or send the export.
What if I am not VAT-registered?
The ledger still works; the VAT return part simply stays empty until you register.
Keep the books as you go
Switch accounting on during the trial and see the ledger fill in.
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