Integration with UltraTax CS: Account balances
For Onvio Trial Balance users
When you are licensed for Onvio and UltraTax CS, you can take advantage of the integration capabilities that enables you to import a contact's account balances — based on how the accounts are grouped in Onvio — into UltraTax CS via the command.
Steps in Onvio
As a best practice, follow these steps to set up your client's accounts and balances in Onvio Trial Balance so that they can be imported into UltraTax CS.
- Set up the contact with the correct tax entity.Onvio entity typeUltraTax CS entity typeIndividual1040C-Corporation1120Limited Liability Partnership1065Partnership1065S-Corporation1120SSole Proprietorship1040Exempt Organization990Trust1041
- Select theTrial Balancetab to add and import accounts and balances.
- Select theGroupingstab to add or modify one of the pre-defined tax grouping schedules that are unique to each tax entity.
- In theGroupingstab, select the correct tax grouping schedule from theGrouping Schedulefield.
- Assign accounts from the Ungrouped account list to a specific tax form and line number in the Grouped Accounts list.
Steps in UltraTax CS
- Verify that your UltraTax CS licenses are up to date.
- o to to import the contact's account balances based on the groupings that you've assigned.
note
The entity type for the contact in Onvio must match the entity type in UltraTax CS.
Troubleshooting tips
Use the following tips to assist you when you prepare accounts and balances in Onvio Trial Balance to import into UltraTax CS. If steps in the process are incomplete or incorrectly entered, the import may fail and produce errors.
- Add a client:Avoid using special characters such as a slash/or period.in theClient nameorClient IDfields in the screen.
- Create the trial balance:We recommend that you use account numbers in Onvio so that descriptions map correctly between years on subschedules in UltraTax CS.
- Assign codes:Be sure to assign tax codes to ungrouped accounts in theGroupingstab. (UltraTax CS requires this information to map each account to a corresponding form and line number correctly.)
Internal use only
Here are the links to the known issues in TFS.