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Back_Office_Guy's avatar
7 months ago

Trust Account transactions

Hi All, Can someone please guide me on how to process a trust account transaction in MYOB AccountRight Plus?

The issue is that I have one Trust Account with my bank, but each client that makes a trust account deposit needs to have that tracked in their own ledger account.

With regular bank accounts, we issue a bill, this becomes a receivable until the payment is made to the bank account at which time we increase the bank account ledger account and decrease the accounts receivable ledger account, but with the trust receipts, they are typically made before anything is billed, so no receivable is generated.

I am thinking maybe have a head trust account that aggregates all the client ledger trust accounts???

5 Replies

  • Genreve_S's avatar
    Genreve_S
    MYOB Moderator
    7 months ago

    HI Back_Office_Guy

     

    Getting the Trust Account transactions spot on is pretty important. It's best to check in with your accountant or a financial advisor to make sure it’s all done the right way.


    Regards,
    Genreve

  • Julie_A_C's avatar
    Julie_A_C
    Ultimate Cover User
    6 months ago

    I assume you have a separate data file for the Trust and one for the business if you are being audited, which I also would assume you are, like my Real Estate and my NFP Yacht club are.

    If you are audited and don't have separate data files you should do, as the auditor only needs to see the Trust side, not your whole business matters.

    For my NFP we had some pen owners who subleased their pens, so we would invoice the owner his fees and then invoice the person they were sub-leasing to, these invoices were allocated to a liability account with the main pen owners name and pen number coded Not Reportable, all located under a Header Account called Sub Leases.

    This is what you should do.  Then when you transfer any money from the trust to your main bank account for a current invoice due you would do a receive money in the main business data file to the bank account.

    In the trust data file you do a spend money on the bank account and allocate it to the liability account you have for that client, or if you want to you can do a purchase from the business allocated to the liability account for the client and then pay that.  Though this is just making more work for your self.  I would make sure to include the name of the client and maybe invoice number in the memo field in case you accidently allocate to the wrong liability.  You could then attach a copy of a PDF from reports>account transactions>filter to their account only and dates required, display and then go to insert/modify and hide or show what you want to.  I would hide src, net activity, job no.

    Hope this helps.