Setup & Maintenance
Configure accounting settings, accounts, payment masters, taxes, financial views, and closing controls.
- Prepare Muhasib Financials
- Configure Accounting Settings
- Build and Maintain the Chart of Accounts
- Review an Account Summary
- Review Profit and Loss
- Review Customer Financial Position
- Review Supplier Financial Position
- Review Tax Transactions and Summaries
- Review Company-Wise Share Profit
- Close a Financial Period Safely
- Create a Tax
Prepare Muhasib Financials
How to Prepare Muhasib Financials in Muhasib ERP
Overview
This guide will help you confirm the accounting structure and controls required before financial posting and reporting.
Transactions can post into an intentional accounting structure and reports have a defined checking baseline.
Who can do this
You need access to Read access to financial setup; changes require specific setup and approval rights.
Before you start
Confirm fiscal year, periods, chart of accounts, control accounts, retained earnings, tax accounts, payment accounts, opening balances, centralization policy, and role separation.
Where to find it
Back Office → Muhasib Financials.
Prepare Muhasib Financials
Step 1: Confirm the active company and fiscal period
Step 2: Review chart hierarchy and account types
Step 3: Verify customer, supplier, inventory, tax, revenue, cost, expense, cash, and
Check customer, supplier, inventory, tax, revenue, cost, expense, cash, and bank defaults.
Step 4: Verify payment methods and accounts
Step 5: Confirm automatic posting and centralization settings
Step 6: Test financial permissions and opening trial balance in a controlled
Test financial permissions and opening trial balance in a controlled environment.
Check your work
Confirm the opening trial balance balances and sample each source transaction into the intended accounts.
If something goes wrong
- Do not begin live posting with placeholder or unmapped control accounts.
- Resolve opening-balance differences before recording current activity.
Related guides
- Configure Accounting Settings
- Build and Maintain the Chart of Accounts
- Prepare and Review a Trial Balance
What to do next
Configure Accounting Settings
How to Configure Accounting Settings in Muhasib ERP
Overview
This guide will help you configure approved accounting defaults that route transactions to the intended accounts.
New transactions use the set up defaults; historical reposting is not assumed.
Who can do this
You need access to Accounting Settings administration and access to selectable accounts.
Before you start
Get an approved mapping for every shown default, retained earnings, rounding, tax, inventory, revenue, cost, party-control, and centralization option.
Where to find it
Back Office → Muhasib Financials → Accounting Settings.
Configure Accounting Settings
Step 1: Export or record current settings
Step 2: Review each setting label and current value
Step 3: Select only approved active accounts of the correct type
Step 4: Confirm centralization and automatic-posting options
Step 5: Save one controlled group of changes at a time
Step 6: Restart only if the application explicitly requires it
Step 7: Test representative transactions in a clone before production use
Check your work
Reopen settings and trace test transactions from every affected module to account ledgers and trial balance.
If something goes wrong
- Restore only from an approved record if a mapping is wrong.
- Do not change defaults mid-period without assessing comparability and existing transactions.
Related guides
- Prepare Muhasib Financials
- Build and Maintain the Chart of Accounts
- Trace a Source Transaction into the General Ledger
What to do next
Build and Maintain the Chart of Accounts
How to Build and Maintain the Chart of Accounts in Muhasib ERP
Overview
This guide will help you create or maintain an account in the correct hierarchy without breaking posting or reporting.
The account becomes available for allowed postings and financial reports.
Who can do this
You need access to Chart of Accounts add/update and any account-head permissions.
Before you start
Confirm account code/name, type, parent, posting/header status, normal balance, reporting purpose, default mappings, historical use, and approval.
Where to find it
Back Office → Muhasib Financials → Chart of Accounts.
Build and Maintain the Chart of Accounts
Step 1: Search for an existing equivalent account
Step 2: Select the correct parent and account type
Step 3: Enter approved code, name, description, and status
Step 4: Mark posting versus grouping behavior as supported
Step 5: Save once
Step 6: Update accounting defaults only when approved
Step 7: Retire rather than remove historically used accounts where supported
Check your work
Confirm hierarchy, type, status, selection behavior, default mappings, and report placement.
If something goes wrong
- Do not post to a grouping/header account.
- Never repurpose an account with historical activity for a different meaning.
Related guides
What to do next
Review an Account Summary
How to Review an Account Summary in Muhasib ERP
Overview
This guide will help you review summarized account balances for a selected company and period and identify accounts needing drill-down.
You have a summarized financial position and a focused list of balances for ledger investigation.
Who can do this
You need access to Account Summary access and authorized company/account scope.
Before you start
Know the fiscal period, reporting basis, account hierarchy, opening balance expectation, and comparison/control totals.
Where to find it
Back Office → Muhasib Financials → Account Summary.
Review an Account Summary
Step 1: Select company and exact date/period scope
Step 2: Apply account-head or account filters as needed
Step 3: Confirm opening, debit, credit, and closing columns
Step 4: Expand or drill into material or unexpected balances
Step 5: Compare control accounts with customer, supplier, inventory, tax, and payment
Compare control accounts with customer, supplier, inventory, tax, and payment subledgers.
Step 6: Export or print with filters visible
Check your work
Summary balances agree with the same company, dates and filters Account Ledger and Trial Balance.
If something goes wrong
- Confirm whether dates are inclusive and whether zero-balance accounts are hidden.
- Clear hierarchy filters when expected accounts are missing.
Related guides
- Review an Account Ledger
- Prepare and Review a Trial Balance
- Trace a Source Transaction into the General Ledger
What to do next
Review Profit and Loss
How to Review Profit and Loss in Muhasib ERP
Overview
This guide will help you explain income, cost, expense, and profit for a selected company and period.
You get an explained period result for management review, subject to accounting approval.
Who can do this
You need access to Profit and Loss access and authorized company scope.
Before you start
Complete material posting, stock/cost review, accruals, corrections, and account classification; know the comparison period and reporting basis.
Where to find it
Back Office → Muhasib Financials → Profit and Loss Report.
Review Profit and Loss
Step 1: Select company and exact reporting period
Step 2: Choose comparison, detail, or grouping options where supported
Step 3: Review revenue by relevant category
Step 4: Review cost of sales and gross profit
Step 5: Review operating and other income/expense
Step 6: Drill into unexpected or material balances
Step 7: Compare profit with Trial Balance and retained-earnings treatment
Check your work
Each statement line reconciles to Account Summary/Ledger and the net result agrees with the same company, dates and filters trial balance accounts.
If something goes wrong
- Investigate account classification and date scope when totals appear in the wrong section.
- Do not treat an unreviewed operational report as finalized financial statements.
Related guides
What to do next
Review Customer Financial Position
How to Review Customer Financial Position in Muhasib ERP
Overview
This guide will help you explain a customer's balance, due amount, ageing, receipts, credits, and outstanding invoices.
You get an explained customer balance suitable for collection, checking, or correction.
Who can do this
You need access to Relevant customer financial report access and authorized customer/company scope.
Before you start
Know the customer, as-of date, payment terms, opening balance, disputed items, unallocated receipts, credits, and expected control total.
Where to find it
Back Office → Muhasib Financials → Customer Ledger, Due, or Ageing Report.
Review Customer Financial Position
Step 1: Select company, customer, and exact cutoff
Step 2: Review opening balance and transaction ledger
Step 3: Match sales, returns, receipts, refunds, credits, and allocations
Step 4: Review due dates and ageing buckets
Step 5: Identify unallocated, disputed, overdue, or duplicated values
Step 6: Compare customer total with the receivables control account
Check your work
Ledger closing, due/ageing total, invoice balances, and receivables control compare and confirm for the same scope.
If something goes wrong
- Confirm payment terms and cutoff when ageing differs from expectation.
- Allocate receipts through the customer-payment workflow, not by editing reports.
Related guides
- Receive a Customer Payment
- Allocate or Update Customer Payment Transactions
- Trace a Source Transaction into the General Ledger
What to do next
Review Supplier Financial Position
How to Review Supplier Financial Position in Muhasib ERP
Overview
This guide will help you explain a supplier's balance, due amount, ageing, payments, debits, returns, and outstanding purchases.
You get an explained supplier balance suitable for payment planning, checking, or correction.
Who can do this
You need access to Relevant supplier financial report access and authorized supplier/company scope.
Before you start
Know the supplier, as-of date, payment terms, opening balance, disputed items, unallocated payments/debits, and expected control total.
Where to find it
Back Office → Muhasib Financials → Supplier Ledger, Due, or Ageing Report.
Review Supplier Financial Position
Step 1: Select company, supplier, and exact cutoff
Step 2: Review opening balance and transaction ledger
Step 3: Match purchases, returns, payments, refunds, debits, and allocations
Step 4: Review due dates and ageing buckets
Step 5: Identify unallocated, disputed, overdue, or duplicated values
Step 6: Compare supplier total with the payables control account
Check your work
Ledger closing, due/ageing total, invoice balances, and payables control compare and confirm for the same scope.
If something goes wrong
- Confirm payment terms and cutoff when ageing differs.
- Correct allocations through the supplier-payment workflow.
Related guides
- Pay a Supplier
- Allocate or Update Supplier Payment Transactions
- Trace a Source Transaction into the General Ledger
What to do next
Review Tax Transactions and Summaries
How to Review Tax Transactions and Summaries in Muhasib ERP
Overview
This guide will help you compare and confirm detailed tax transactions to summarized tax totals and source documents.
You get a reconciled tax dataset for authorized review; the report alone does not constitute filing approval.
Who can do this
You need access to Tax report access and authorized company/tax scope.
Before you start
Know the filing period, tax registrations, set up codes/rates/accounts, inclusive/exclusive rules, returns, adjustments, and expected filing basis.
Where to find it
Back Office → Muhasib Financials → needed Tax report.
Review Tax Transactions and Summaries
Step 1: Select company, registration, tax type, and exact period
Step 2: Review transaction-level taxable value and tax
Step 3: Match sales, purchases, returns, and adjustments to source documents
Step 4: Reconcile detailed values to each summary category
Step 5: Reconcile tax categories to general-ledger tax accounts
Step 6: Document exclusions, rounding, and filing adjustments
Check your work
Source documents, detailed report, summaries, and tax control accounts agree subject to documented adjustments.
If something goes wrong
- Confirm registration, date basis, and return signs.
- Escalate statutory interpretation to the responsible tax professional.
Related guides
What to do next
Review Company-Wise Share Profit
How to Review Company-Wise Share Profit in Muhasib ERP
Overview
This guide will help you review company-wise share-profit results and trace the values to their set up basis.
You get an analytical allocation result; no distribution or journal is assumed to be created.
Who can do this
Before you start
Confirm the business definition of share profit, participating companies/persons, allocation percentages, reporting period, and approved profit basis.
Where to find it
Back Office → Muhasib Financials → Company Wise Share Profit Report.
Review Company-Wise Share Profit
Step 1: Select the exact reporting period and company scope
Step 2: Review displayed participants, shares, and profit basis
Step 3: Confirm allocation percentages and effective dates
Step 4: Reconcile underlying profit to the Profit and Loss report
Step 5: Recalculate representative allocations independently
Step 6: Record unexplained rounding or exclusions for review
Check your work
Underlying profit and approved percentages reproduce the reported allocation, including documented rounding.
If something goes wrong
- Do not treat the report as a legal distribution statement without owner/accounting confirmation.
- Check effective dates and excluded companies when shares do not total as expected.
Related guides
What to do next
Close a Financial Period Safely
How to Close a Financial Period Safely in Muhasib ERP
Overview
This guide will help you complete a controlled period-end review and prevent unapproved changes to finalized results.
The period has approved reports, evidence, and access restrictions; exact locking behavior depends on system settings.
Who can do this
You need access to Financial report access; fiscal-year/period changes require separate administrative authority.
Before you start
Define cutoff, close checklist, approvers, materiality, backup, open transactions, external reconciliations, and correction policy.
Where to find it
Use relevant module inquiries and Muhasib Financials reports, then authorized Fiscal Year/Working Period controls.
Close a Financial Period Safely
Step 1: Complete or list pending sales, purchases, stock, production, expenses, payments,
Complete or list pending sales, purchases, stock, production, expenses, payments, integrations, and offline data.
Step 2: Reconcile cash/bank, receivables, payables, inventory, tax, and other controls
Step 3: Review journals, Trial Balance, and Profit and Loss
Step 4: Post approved accruals/corrections through proper workflows
Step 5: Run and retain final reports plus a verified backup
Step 6: Close or restrict the period using the supported control
Step 7: Test that unauthorized backdating is prevented
Check your work
Re-run final reports, confirm balances unchanged, check backup, and test role-based period restrictions.
If something goes wrong
- Do not close with unexplained control-account differences.
- Reopen or adjust a closed period only through documented authorization.
Related guides
- Prepare and Review a Trial Balance
- Review Profit and Loss
- Create and Verify a Manual Database Backup
What to do next
Create a Tax
How to Create a Tax in Muhasib ERP
Overview
This guide will help you create a tax definition with the approved rate, calculation type, and integration mapping.
The tax becomes selectable and can affect totals, postings, receipts, submissions, and tax reports.
Who can do this
You need access to Tax and Tax Add.
Before you start
Get written approval for name, rate/value, inclusive/exclusive/calculation behavior, effective date, authority/integration mapping, and GL accounts.
Where to find it
Back Office → Muhasib Financials/setup → Manage Tax.
Create a Tax
Step 1: Choose New Record
Step 2: Enter Short and Long Description
Step 3: Enter approved Value/rate
Step 4: Select Calculation Type
Step 5: Select Tax Integration mapping where applicable
Select Tax Integration mapping where needed.
Step 6: Save
Step 7: Assign to a disposable item and test Purchase/Sale
Check your work
Recalculate tax manually and compare and confirm invoice/purchase, Tax Report/Summary, integration response, and GL.
If something goes wrong
- Do not change an existing tax's rate to represent a new legal period without policy review.
Related guides
- Configure Tax Integrations
- Configure Item Pricing, Discount, Tax, and Commission
- Review the Tax Report