Year end companies accounts due - help please

I would have thought that your accountant would need the following assuming that he /she is not conversant with Clear Books.

1. Copy of the year end Trial Balance.
2. Copy of the bank account (S) transaction report. 3 Copy of the VAT account (s) transaction report.
3. Copy of the wages / NI / PAYE transaction report.

You can get all of what I call "Transaction reports" by clicking on the appropriate year end figure on the Trial Balance report. Once your accountant has a copy of the Trial Balance he/she might want transactional detail of any balances they do not fully understand. From the Trial Balance they should be able to prepare draft accounts, adjusting any balance they might need to for accruals etc. they will probably be using an accounts production software package such as "VT" which is external to Clear Books, they will use an "adjusted" Trial Balance to prepare your accounts. The Trial Balance is a standard financial report on Clear Books. Clearly if your accountant had access they could "pull" all of this from Clear Books themselves. If you need any more detail please let me know.

Regards,

John Blackham.

Regards,

John Blackham.

Agree with the last part - I would've thought the accountant just needs a Clear Books login:

https://www.clearbooks.co.uk/support/guides/users-2/new-navigation-create-new-user-role/

Pulling reports and them asking you loads of questions when they should be able to do it all themselves completely defeats the object of the software.

Just to third the above, the whole point and major benefit of cloud accounting is that you and your accountant can collaborate, and letting her in to see the bank transactions and maybe sending her a print of the last month's bank statement, will save loads of time (and maybe fees?)

Cloud accounting will be the default (if it isn't already) and so, sooner or later, your accountant will have to get involved, especially when digital reporting hits in a few years, so encourage her to get stuck in, it doesn't bite and it's far easier to use than the old deskbound software.

Hi

Thank you so much for your help.

I think next year we will look at someone who will use clearbooks along side us as it will be a lot easier.

Can I ask........ Is there any way of printing a report to show all the payroll information she needs? I have printed of the salaries transactions but I presume she would need the breakdown of NI etc. How do I get this?