Before you start your new financial or payroll year, you should back up your company file.
After you start a new financial or payroll year, you should optimise and verify your company file. Optimising your company file reduces the file's size and makes your company file more efficient. The Verify Company File utility ensures that your company file is in "healthy" working condition.
The amount of time needed to optimise and verify a company file for use with Accounting depends on the size of the file and the capabilities of the computer you're using. If you have a very large company file and a slower computer with little memory, be prepared for optimisation and verification to take some time.
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