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- Historical Balances—Chart of Accounts
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- You are not required to enter historical balances. But if you wish to compare
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- this year’s balance sheet and income statement to last year’s without waiting a
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- year for M.Y.O.B. to collect the data, you need to enter pre-conversion balances
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- for your accounts.
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- For balance sheet accounts (assets, liabilities, and equity), enter the period
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- ending balances for each account for the selected period. You may not enter a
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- balance for Current Year Earnings—it is calculated by M.Y.O.B.
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- For profit and loss accounts (income, cost of sales, and expense) enter the net
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- activity for each account for the selected month.
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- Click the arrows in the upper right to select the month.
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- You may not enter historical balances for the period immediately preceding your
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- conversion month since these are the balances specified in the opening balances
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- window. Your opening balances (see Chapter GS 3—Getting Started) are the account
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- balances at the end of the month prior to your conversion month. Unless your
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- conversion month is the beginning of a new fiscal year (see Note).
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- When you enter historical profit & loss (income, cost of sales or expense)
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- balances, M.Y.O.B. adjusts your opening balances. If, for example, you have a
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- calendar fiscal year and your conversion month is July, your opening balances
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- are the total activity for January through June. This number is saved as June's
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- activity since M.Y.O.B. doesn't know how to divide the number among the
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- preceding six months. If you enter historical balances for January through May,
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- they will be subtracted from the June activity figure.
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- ÀáNote:Àá For those of you who are converting your data as of the beginning of your
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- fiscal year—you are allowed to enter net activity for your profit and loss
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- accounts (income, cost of sales, expense, other income and other expense) for the
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- last month of the previous fiscal year, since you may not enter these numbers in
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- the opening balances window.
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