NewViews Starter Books

Starter Books can be used to create a new set of books that already contains generic financial reports, a trial balance, and sample customer, vendor and sales accounts. It is strongly recommended that you use Starter Books to create each new set of books, as this is usually much easier than creating a new set of books from scratch.

Several Starter Books are provided with each NewViews installation. These files can be found in the directory:

c:/nv/starter_setups  (provided that NewViews was installed in the default directory c:/nv)

Additional Starter Books can be downloaded using the links provided below. Please note that these books are set up for accrual vs cash basis accounting. If you use cash basis accounting, you can hide the Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivables folders.

All Starter Books are fully modifiable. Any hidden items (i.e. Payroll) can be exposed and used at any time.  Download files range from 1.7 to 3.0 MBytes.

Important!  Do NOT click RUN when prompted after clicking the links below.  You must SAVE the file(s) to your computer before opening the Starter Books with NewViews.

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If you don’t see Starter Books that meet your requirements, send us email! We will try to provide the most requested Starter Books.

DESCRIPTION # OF ACCOUNTS # OF REPORTS DOWNLOAD FILE DETAILS
Canadian based company 324 8 canada_basic.nv2 Basic general ledger, including trial balance, generic financial reports, sample journals, sample customer, vendor, sales, expense, inventory accounts, sample Canadian Employees and withholding reports.
USA based company 329 8 usa_basic.nv2 Basic general ledger, including trial balance, generic financial reports, sample journals, sample customer, vendor, sales, expense, inventory accounts, sample US Employees and withholding reports.
VAT based company 183 5 vat_basic.nv2 For use in any country using a Value Added Tax, (GST in Canada and Australia) e.g. Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom, etc. Basic general ledger, including trial balance, generic financial reports, sample journals, sample customer, vendor, sales, expense, inventory accounts, sample generic payroll liability and expense accounts.
Simple holding company 82 3 holdings.nv2 Basic holding company, including trial balance, balance sheet and income statement. No inventory, no payroll.
Non-profit organization with multiple fund accounts 449 15 non-profit.nv2 A non-profit general ledger for fund accounting. This set of books emphasizes accountability rather than profitability. Includes a trial balance, financial reports, multiple funds, restricted funds, additional journals, sample customer/donor/member, vendor, revenue and expense accounts.
Simple company (no inventory, no cost of goods sold, no payroll) 191 6 simple.nv2 A simplified general ledger, including trial balance, generic financial reports, sample journals, customer, vendor, sales and expense accounts. Inventory, cost of goods sold and payroll have been hidden, but can be exposed at any time in order to use these functions.
Household books 173 3 household.nv2 This basic household general ledger is geared to cash accounting. The books contain over 70 household expense categories. There is a balance sheet to track your mortgage principal, loans to friends and family, etc.