Using This Accounting Manual

Please go through the first three sections of this manual in order. If you are an experienced computer user, you should be able to skip over many of the detailed instructions.

NOTE-- Goldenseal construction accounting software is the successor to MacNail, which we retired in 2000. Goldenseal is an integrated business management program that includes general accounting, job costing, payroll and project billing, plus construction cost estimating, contract writing and simple scheduling.

* This Introduction will give you some background information about the MacNail construction accounting software.
* Getting Started gives you instructions for loading the program onto your hard disk, along with a general overview of MacNail accounting.
* The Tutorial will walk you through the sample accounting worksheets that come with MacNail.
* The MacNail Accounting, Payroll and Cost Control sections contain instructions about the specific worksheets and commands used by MacNail accounting.
* MacNail Commands covers the specific menu items used by MacNail Accounting and MacNail Cost Control.
* The Reference section covers some more specialized uses of the MacNail construction accounting software. The

Using Excel section covers a few Excel basics that will improve your usage of MacNail. The Troubleshooting section will help you to track down the solution to problems.

There is also a complete Glossary. If you don't recognize a computer term or an accounting term--you can look it up!