Accounting audit trail

Question asked by Michael Jack Pitcher 7 years ago

We are new to Clearbooks, having been Sage 50 users for many years.

I'm having real trouble with parallel running against Sage, as we are doing at the moment. If the trial balances match life is OK. However, when we get a mismatch it is easy to run a Sage nominal ledger report to see all the transactions against that nominal with starting and ending balances for the period chosen.

The ClearBooks Audit log is useless if multiple people are using the system. In any case, the Audit log does not show the accounting treatment. If I try to view the ClearBooks Transaction log for the General Ledger I get all the transactions in sequence but no opening and closing balances by nominal code.

We started with April 1st transactions and have balanced until now when a simple mistake was made in ClearBooks but we have no tools other than the two TBs (Sage and CB) and the nominal account and audit trail listings from Sage. Has anyone any suggestions on a better way to parallel run?

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Hi Michael

The audit log report is really only to see what people were doing at certain times, plus,from memory, some transactions are ignored.

I'm surprised about your comments on the Transaction "log", do you mean the transaction report? If so then, running this and selecting a specific account gives you a full Nominal Ledger report, with b/fwd & c/fwd balances.

If it was me, I'd get the TB up on screen and click on the accounts that don't tally with Sage, this gives you the same nominal ledger history.

When you get used to CB, or, to be honest, any Cloud app, you'll soon appreciate how Sage 50 is about 10 years past its sell by date.

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7 years ago

Thanks Paul that makes a lot of sense.

How I wish someone had written a ClearBooks for Dummies!

7 years ago

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