Eagle Accounting's year end close out process moves ledger balances from Income, Capital, and Expense accounts to an Accumulated Earnings account, setting these general ledger account balances to zero for the start of the next fiscal year.
About Ledger Transfer Profiles
You use a ledger transfer profile to identify the accounts to close out for the year end process and to identify the target accounts into which to roll the balances. Eagle Accounting provides a ledger transfer profile by default when you install Eagle's accounting solution. The Ledger Item Editor allows you to view, create, and edit ledger transfer profiles. You can choose any accounts to close out for the year end process. You also can choose the target accounts into which to roll the balances. For more information, see Manage Ledger Transfer Profiles.
About Adding Custom Ledger Accounts and Year End Processing
When you add a custom ledger account, you can add that account to one or more custom chart of account (COAs). The custom COA can include client-specific account descriptions and numbers. You map the custom accounts to the accounts in the core COA. You can then use the Ledger Item Editor to add the new ledger account to the appropriate custom ledger profiles. A ledger profile is a report profile used to collect and group ledger activity into defined line items such as income, expenses, and distributions. With ledger profiles, you can update the account in the line item's start and end accounts, and can update the formulas that include that account in calculations. This allows reports that you generate to display the custom accounts.
When you add a custom ledger account, also consider how it affects the year end closeout process. The ledger transfer profile defines the required posting rules. Determine whether you need to edit the ledger transfer profile to reflect a new custom ledger account. For example, you can edit a source range to include custom ledger accounts that occur beyond the existing mapping range in the ledger transfer profile.
About the Year End Closeout
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When you set the Month End Processing Indicator (tag 9697) option for a fund to Yes, and you processed process monthly ledger balances for a fund, the year end closeout process closes out activity with the Monthly Accounting Date in the year for which you perform the closeout, even though the Accounting Date may occur after the year end date. The year end process transfers the Income Gain/Loss, and Expense balances to the Capital account with an Accounting Date equal to the Accounting Date of the original activity and the Month End Date equal to the first date of the next fiscal year. After you process the year end close, if any backdated activity is posted with the previous qualifying condition, the system moves the balances automatically when you rerun the Populate Monthly Ledger Balance event.
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