The new Small Companies Regulations (and therefore applied by FRS 102 section 1A) introduced the option to draw up an abridged balance sheet and profit and loss account (where such option is applied these may otherwise be referred to as Abridged Financial Statements/Abridged Accounts). An...

Currently, the function to read information from third party APIs for Xero, FreeAgent and QuickBooks online only records a client’s financial year end date so it is only possible to obtain a trial balance for a full financial year. Where a period exists, we suggest preparing a CSV file with...

The TaxCalc application is now available on Linux for Individual and Standalone practice users. We are currently developing a network version which will be available in the future. As for now, you are able to have a LINUX machine as one of the additional machines if a windows machine acts as the...

There are a number of reasons why changes you make in Edit Notes might not appear on the financial statements. Wrong accounting period Check that you made the changes in the correct accounting period: Go to Accounts Production. Review the open tabs along the top. Select the client you're...

To export your accounts to MS Word, follow these steps: Open the client in Accounts Production. Click on the relevant accounting period. Click on Reports. Click on Full Financial Statements. Click on Export Report in the top right corner. Click on Export to MS Word. The accounts will...

In Practice Manager select the client and select Edit Client/Contact. Select Company Information. The Type of Company field is greyed out, which means it cannot be amended at present. To be able to amend the Type of Company you must first delete any relationships setup. Click...

Rounding will take place where the Trial Balance is rounded to pounds and the Debit and Credit rounded totals do not agree. As standard, any rounding difference will be allocated to the account code specified under Rounding Differences at the bottom of the Posting screen (default rounding...

This error message will be presented when attempting to file a corporation tax return or a set of accounts online if you have multiple entries present in the financial statements for directors loan account (one appearing in the debtors note and one appearing in the creditors note). The easiest...

This situation may occur where balances have been posted to Director’s Loan Account (account codes 5400, 5401 & 5402 and/or 5800) and allocated to specific Directors. The individual postings are rounded separately but the overall total of the Director’s Loan Account for the specific...

Please note: if you are running version 10.x of TaxCalc, or later, this knowledge base article may no longer be relevant because of changes made within the software. If you are running version 10.x or later and getting a freezing screen when opening batches or notes within Accounts Production...

Within Edit Notes > Balance Sheet Declaration/Approval, the list of Directors/Members is produced based on the date of signing e.g. will only show those directors present at that date. From version 6.2 this restriction no longer applies and where a date has not been entered, the list of...

Yes. Disclosure of the average number of employees is required under the Companies Act. Section 411 (1) The notes to a company’s annual accounts must disclose the average number of persons employed by the company in the financial year. (1A) In the case of a company not subject to the...

To change the report margins for the cover page of your financial statements, follow these steps: From the Home page open Administration. Select Applications from the left-hand menu. Click on Accounts Production. Select Customise Accounts from the left-hand menu. Select Cover Page defaults...

Companies are having to consider how the impact of COVID-19 affects their business and how these affects should be reported in the accounts. This will require some additional disclosures to explain how recent events are affecting their business. To assist you with the preparation of COVID-19...

When connecting to QuickBooks Online, occasionally users may see ‘We’re experiencing some problems, the application has already been subscribed to by another user for this company’ message. This error occurs if a QuickBooks Online user has previously connected to QuickBooks Online and the...