---
title: Accounting Overview
description: Where you manage banking, the general ledger, fixed assets, the chart of accounts, fiscal years, and the audit and email logs.
url: "https://theasst.com/docs/accounting-overview/"
updated: "2026-10-06"
category: Accounting
---

# Accounting Overview

The **Accounting/HR** section is where you manage your books and your people. This covers the accounting half — banking, journal entries, fixed assets, and the chart of accounts. Personnel and time tracking are covered in [Human Resources](https://theasst.com/docs/human-resources-overview/).

![Accounting/HR tile menu with Banking, General Ledger, Fixed Assets, G/L Accounts, Personnel, Time Tracking, Audit Event Log, and Email Log](https://theasst.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/accountinghr-tiles.webp)

Click a tile to open it, or hover to see its sub-pages. You can rearrange or hide tiles with **Configure This Page** at the top; each person’s arrangement is their own. Which tiles you see depends on your permissions (see [Users and Permissions](https://theasst.com/docs/users-and-permissions/)).

- [Banking Overview](https://theasst.com/docs/banking-overview/) — the account register, payments, deposits, bank data import, and reconciliation.
- [General Ledger](https://theasst.com/docs/general-ledger/) — every journal entry, double-entry and balanced, including manual entries.
- [G/L Accounts](https://theasst.com/docs/g-l-accounts/) — your chart of accounts.
- [Fixed Assets](https://theasst.com/docs/fixed-assets/) — track assets and depreciation.
- [Fiscal Year & Year-End Closing](https://theasst.com/docs/fiscal-year-and-year-end-closing/) — accounting periods and closing a year.
- [Audit Event Log](https://theasst.com/docs/audit-event-log/) — a history of changes made throughout the system.
- [Email Log](https://theasst.com/docs/email-log/) — every email TBA has sent.

Financial statements built from these books — [Trial Balance](https://theasst.com/docs/trial-balance/), [Balance Sheet](https://theasst.com/docs/balance-sheet/), [Profit and Loss](https://theasst.com/docs/profit-and-loss/), and [Cash Flow Statement](https://theasst.com/docs/cash-flow-statement/) — are in [Reports](https://theasst.com/docs/reports-overview/). Default accounts for routine transactions are chosen in [Default G/L Settings](https://theasst.com/docs/default-g-l-settings/).