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Product support for the ended on September 30, 2020.
- Write Up CS
- Payroll CS
- Engagement CS
- Client Bookkeeping Solution
- Financial Analysis CS
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Write-Up CS allows you to define automatic journal entries for the selected client. The application automatically calculates transactions each period based on your entries in this dialog. You need to enter information for automatic journal entries just once per client, although the amount of the actual journal entry can vary each month based on the specified calculation. Each time transactions are posted, the application removes any automatic journal entries previously saved for the period and calculates new entries based on the current-period information.
Choose Automatic Journal Entries from the Setup menu.
Note: To verify the calculations for automatic journal entries during data entry from Tasks > Transactions window, choose the Automatic Journal Entries Diagnostics command from the Edit menu or from the F3 or right-click context menu. If you have selected Do not make automatic entries in the Transactions Options dialog, no automatic journal entries are calculated by the application.
See also: Client Setup Overview
Special information
- For additional information and examples, see Automatic Journal Entries in Write-Up CS (PDF).
- If multiple automatic journal entries have been set up for the client, the application completes the calculations in the following order: (1) percentage; (2) inventory; (3) state tax; (4) federal tax; (5) overdraft.
- If you access a prior period but do not want the automatic journal entries to recalculate for that prior period, before moving back to the prior period choose the Options command from the Tasks > Transaction Entry window and mark the checkbox for the option Do not post automatic entries when in prior periods.
- To copy automatic journal entries that have already been set up for another client to the open client, choose Utilities > Transfer Client Information from the CSA main window.
Tabbed pages in this dialog
Percentage tab
Inventory tab
Income Tax tab
Overdraft tab
Fields & buttons
Lists the automatic journal entries that have already been set up for the open client.
- To add another automatic journal entry, click the Add button.
- To modify an existing automatic journal entry, highlight the appropriate item in the list and click the Edit button.
For new automatic journal entries: When adding an automatic journal entry, enter a description of the journal entry.
For existing automatic journal entries: Displays the description assigned to the entry highlighted in the list. To change the description, click the Edit button.
Required field.
For new automatic journal entries: When adding an automatic journal entry, enter a reference number using up to 9 alphanumeric characters. Note that numbers 100 and greater are reserved as check numbers (as defined in the General Ledger tab of the Client Properties dialog). You may use up to 7 decimal places provided that the total number of characters for the reference including the decimal is no greater than 9.
For existing automatic journal entries: Displays the reference assigned to the entry highlighted in the list. To change the reference, click the Edit button.
For new automatic journal entries: When adding an automatic journal entry, choose a journal in which to record the entry from the drop-down list. The application will default to the General journal.
Note: For this list to be active, you must mark Use separate journals in transaction data entry in the General Ledger tab of the File > Client Properties dialog. To add a journal to this list, go to the Setup > Journal dialog and click Add.
For existing automatic journal entries: Displays the journal assigned to the entry highlighted in the list. To change the journal in which the entry is saved, click the Edit button. Changing the journal will only effect entries created in the future, the application will not move existing entries to the newly selected journal. To change existing entries, you would need to go to each period and use the Transfer Transactions Between Journals feature, available from the Edit menu or the right-click context menu when the Transactions window is active.
For a client processed using Write-Up CS and Trial Balance CS
Specify the balance basis to be used for calculating the automatic journal entry by selecting it from the F4 drop-down list.
- Adjusted
- Other
- Report
- Tax
- Unadjusted (default selection)
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