Suspense Account 9999

We use nominal code 9999 (or used to) to temporarily hold clients money before it was released to them. Last year 2021 for the first time we had a credit balance of £9500 which we now realise does not roll forward with the end of year. We are now looking at a £9500 debit on 2022 end of year as the amount does not roll forward. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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    Your accountant would have had to deal with this balance owed to clients in the statutory accounts and s/he would probably have allocated it as Other Debtors or similar.  When you ran the year end process in Sage, it would have cleared the 9999 account out to the balance sheet, often that would be N/L 3200 or close by.  Run a trial balance and select "brought forward" as the date, then compare the balances with your final audited accounts.  The chances are, the difference will show up either in the 3200 account or Other Debtors, depending on whether or not your accountant has already corrected it in their end of year adjustments.  A journal debiting whichever of these accounts it is and crediting 9999 should fix it.