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Adding details to account categories

In Client Accounting, you can add detailed breakdowns to financial statement categories to provide more information on the amounts. This includes adding detail to Income Statement categories, as well as within Notes to the financial statements.

You can break down accounts in categories into separate lines, group them, and give them a relevant name. This makes the information easier for your clients to understand.

Key things to know

  • Adding details to account categories is available only in Notes to Financial statements and Income statements and is done at the client level, not at the Practice level

  • Locked periods are not impacted.

  • Use the Prepare window to add the details, and the Review window will show how it will be displayed.

  • Roll forward: Descriptions, layout, and groups will roll forward to the next period

  • Account category (Mapped account): The account code from the Client accounting chart of accounts

  • Imported account: The synced ledger or imported CSV account codes. Several imported accounts can map to the same mapped account category.

  • Zero-balance account: All accounts that have been mapped will appear in the mapped account picker, even if they have a zero balance.

Customising account categories

You can:

  • Add headings and subtotals for account codes

  • Rename mapped and original account codes

  • Re-group imported account codes assigned to the same mapped account

  • Display original accounts as a single line item

  • Use the account picker directly in Preparation view

Adding the details

Changing the name of the category

The category name is from the Client Accounting chart of accounts and not from the underlying ledger like MYOB Business.

You won't be able to combine 2 account categories into one. If you want to do that, you need to map them into one account code.
For example, you can't combine Shares and Managed Funds into one category if they belong to different account codes
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  1. Go to Financial statements and open the Note from the left side panel. Make sure you're in the Prepare window.

  2. Click into the field you want to enter a description. When the field turns yellow, enter the description.

Breakdown individual account group category

  1. Click the purple hash # to open the account window that the category is made up of.

  2. Select the account you want to have its own category and select Remove. Click Save.

  3. This will remove the account from the list and will show a separate category. You can change the name of this category if you want to.

    If you've separated multiple accounts from the account list, you can group them by selecting Group account. Only accounts that were previously separated from another account can be grouped.

  4. You can view the breakdown in the Review window.

Breakdown all the accounts in the category

Breakdown all the accounts in the category

You also have an option to remove all accounts from an account group and show them as individual categories. You'll see the breakdown of the accounts (indented) and a sub-total.

You can view the breakdown in the Review window.

Reverting bold account category, indentation and subtotal

If you have one or more imported accounts mapped to the account category, the formatting will revert to the standard format, where all account categories, codes, and groups will show separately and are not indented.

To revert the format, select the yellow hash (#) and add one or more accounts.

If there are no accounts to choose from, you'll need to remove an account from a group to make it available.

Notes that you can add details to

List of notes

Name of the note

What are the changes?

Cash and cash equivalents

Can add details to the notes

Previously, all imported accounts displayed separately. Now it will be a single category group by default.

Trade and other receivables

Can add details to the notes

Inventories

Can add details to the notes, but only update descriptions. You can't split or break down accounts

We've removed the trading inventories subheading

Property, plant and equipment

Can add details to the notes

Investment properties

Can add details to the notes

Investments

Can add details to the notes

Intangibles

Can add details to the notes, but only update descriptions. You can't split or break down accounts

If Other intangibles were renamed, this will be reverted.

Other assets

Can add details to the notes

Bank overdraft

Can add details to the notes

Previously, all imported accounts displayed separately. Now it will be a single category group by default.

Trade and other payables

Can add details to the notes

We've removed the client funds held in trust from Loans to associates, but this will show until it is remapped.

Borrowings

Can add details to the notes

We've split the Borrowing account codes, and needs to be remapped

Provisions

Can add details to the notes

Other liabilities

Can add details to the notes

Previously, all imported accounts displayed separately. Now it will be a single category group by default.

Stakeholder accounts

Can't add details to the notes

Statutory information

Can't add details to the notes