 Zero Accounting 2023 Comprehensive Practice Problem Introduction Get Ready to Become an Accounting Hero with Zero 2023. Support Accounting Instruction by clicking the link below giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website broken out by category further broken out by course each course then organized in a logical reasonable fashion making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page. We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems, PDF files and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable. So once again, click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it. First question when starting a new practice problem using accounting software generally is how could I get access to the software possibly for free and in a format best suited for the practice problem we will be working. Different options for accessing the zero accounting software include you've got the free 30 day trial period often offered by zero on a company by company basis you've got the free demo company and then when purchasing the software you can look into discounts when thinking about these first two options they're both great options and the better option will be dependent upon the type of practice problem that we will be working. The demo company already has data in it and therefore is a great tool when you're trying to navigate through the software generate reports and deconstruct what has already been put into the system whereas the free 30 day trial will give you a company file with no data in it and therefore is not as good when you're trying to drill down on data that has already been input but is great when you want to practice starting a new company file and adding data from scratch working on say the general ledger for example and building things up from the ground up and that's what we will be practicing with this practice problem and therefore the 30 day trial period would be the preferred option to practice with if we can get access to it obviously the limitation of the free 30 day trial period is you have 30 days to work through a comprehensive practice problem the problem is comprehensive so you want to manage your time accordingly. So to get to the free 30 day trial you can go to the zero website xero.com and then you've got the try zero for free here and you have it here currently on their web page you can also log in if you already have an account the great thing with zero is that once you have an account then you can go basically to your dashboard here and everything's kind of located in your dashboard including the demo company file if you wanted to practice with it as well as adding a new organization a new file and when you add the new file that's when you have the capacity to do the 30 day trial so if you're looking for the 30 day trial you've got your dashboard set up once you're in your dashboard then you set up add an organization and then as you add the organization you have the buy now option or the start trial so that's where these trial period would be started here so we'll take a look at that possibly in a future presentation if we look at the demo version by contrast same kind of process that will still get into our dashboard here and once we have this set up then you have your demo version so you still have to kind of sign in but once you have to sign in it's great because then you have the adding the organization on the right and then you have your demo version which is down here remembering that the demo version already has data in it therefore great tool for for practicing putting together different financial statements and reports and drilling down on those reports to the source document to kind of deconstruct also note that this demo file is something that you can reset so you can actually reset it from from time to time to clear it out to the default numbers or you can basically work on it and change the default numbers so that you can practice things and build on your on your practice as you're in the software which is really nice you can also change the country so changing the country if you go into that on the demo file you can you have a new zealand united kingdom australia global united states for the options also quite nice because then you can basically practice in the demo with the different areas and then of course you can also look into discounts when purchasing the software those are going to be the different ways that we can get access to the software again for the practice problem in terms of possible free options it would be great if we can get a nice clean copy with no data in it so that we can then start from scratch and build up from scratch