FormerMember

Bank rec in Accountants version

Posted By FormerMember

I've taken on a new bookkeeping client and I'm trying to figure out how the previous bookkeeper managed to post transactions while allowing the client to keep using their Sage.  The most relevant question in this forum is from 6 years ago....see below... I'm hoping that the problem has been solved since then!

From 6 years ago "Are you not allowed to do a month end bank reconciliation in an "Accountants Copy"? If you aren't able to, how do bookkeepers/accountants balance their clients books if they can't reconcile for them ? If I took their original file and reconciled it, then I couldn't load it back into their system without losing their work as they use Simply on a daily basis almost. I thought for sure General journal entries, bank reconciliations, etc would be main features of the Accountants Edition for Simply? Thank you , look forward to your help!"

Thanks!

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    Hi

    An "accountants copy" is very different from a regular file backup. When you ask for a file from your client for the purpose of reconciling the bank, make sure to grab a regular backup from the client, but you must tell them to not work on the file while the file is in with you. 

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    I thought for sure General journal entries, bank reconciliations, etc would be main features of the Accountants Edition for Simply?

    These days, few businesses can go 'offline' to pass the master copy of their books back and forth, so try to work with the client's books remotely / through the 'cloud' throughout the year to do bank reconciliations, post entries, run reports, while the company data is in daily use. 

    And there's every reason to train the client to do their own reconciliations monthly, weekly, or even daily, and only check their work at year end.