Compare trial balances
You can compare trial balances in separate engagements in AdvanceFlow using Trial Balance Compare. For example, you may want to view the differences between the trial balance being used for a client’s tax return engagement with the trial balance being used for a client’s audit engagement.
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You need to have Trial Balance Compare security permissions to use this feature.
- In AdvanceFlow, open the engagement.
- Select theTrial Balancetab.
- SelectData, thenCompare.
- Select aClientand anEngagementfor theTrial Balance Source.
- Clear or mark the checkboxes forUnadjusted BalancesandJournal Entries, then selectNext.
- Import trial balance differences
- SelectImportif you want to import the differences into the current engagement. You can use this feature to make sure that changes made to the audit trial balance are picked up for the tax engagement.noteIf AdvanceFlow encounters journal entries with the same reference during the import process, it'll overwrite the entry for the client into which you're importing differences. To prevent journal entries from being overwritten during this process, make sure you use unique journal entry references in the engagements you're comparing.
Example
Both the tax and audit engagement staff have added an entry with a reference of
AJE01
to their respective engagements. If you import the differences into the tax staff's engagement, AdvanceFlow will overwrite the AJE01
entry in the tax staff's engagement.If the tax staff had used an entry reference of
TJE01
and the audit staff had used a reference of AJE01
, AdvanceFlow would've kept both entries in the tax staff's engagement.Related Content
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