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HandiTax General Information

Amended tax return: Unamendable tags

Amended tax return where the original return was lodged by another firm

Client view: Changing the client view

Changing the tax agent's contact details

Client selected by another user

Corrupted quarantine file

Error, a record is not unique in file: ...\Data\Clients:nn

HandiTax Estimate differs from ATO assessment

Mature Age Workers offset

Paper preferred formats

Rebuilding your database files

 


HandiTax: Functionality

ATO Pre-fill report functionality

ATO Assessments: Processing ATO assessment notices in HandiTax can be posted directly into HandiTrust

Displaying the Taxable Income and Estimate as running totals

Duplicating a return into the selected client

Editing the tax form: The Goto button

Error Navigator: Accessing and interpreting ATO validation "V" error messages

Front cover contact details

Function keys

HandiLedger to HandiTax transfer

Help F1 option not working

Importing from the ATO client list

Imputation Credit: Automatic fill for franked dividend

Managed Funds: Distributions from Managed Funds

Managed Funds: Splitting funds between tax returns

PAYG income tax instalment in the estimate

Preventing users making changes to lodged returns

Reassigning clients to a tax agent number

Recording notes on your clients tax returns

Related reference field can be used to populate spouse details

Reselecting a client

Return information window

Rolling over one client at a time

Saving a prior year tax return in Document Manager

Splitting the interest and dividend items

Tax Estimate: Customising the Tax Estimate

Tax Estimate: Negative Medicare Levy Surcharge

Tax returns: Changing the background colour

Transferring a depreciation schedule from HandiTax to HandiLedger

Transfer of items in the program for individual tax returns

Transferring the rental property statement to the tax return of the other part owners

Trust return: Retaining beneficiary details for roll over and record keeping purposes

 


HandiTax: Good and Services Tax (GST)

BAS Amendment

Prior Year BAS creation

 

 

 


HandiTax: Electronic Lodgement Service (ELS)

 

Batch number 999 has been reached in the ELS folder

Checking for incomplete lodgements

Cisco client could not be found on this computer

Electronic Lodgment Declaration schedule for Individuals

ELS Declaration form

ELS Declaration form: What makes up the return totals

ELS Invalid User Id or Password

ELS Secure VPN connection terminated locally by client

ELS Socket Connect Failure

ELS Tax Agents guide

ELS Timed out waiting for socket data

ELS Timed out waiting for VPN Client Response

ELS Too Many failed login attempts account locked  

ELS VPN Client User Authentication

Error message: "There are no files for lodgement/retrieval in this group of tagged clients" when lodging via ELS

Form types available for electronic lodgement

Lodgement Action list

Lodging prior year returns (Handitax 2000 onwards)

Lodging prior year returns (HandiTax 1998 and 1999)

Password: Updating expired password 

Password: updating expired password (HandiTax 2007 and earlier)

Prior years that can be lodged by ELS

Reading reports that have been retrieved from the ATO

Relodging tax returns

Updating the Lodgment Status from the ELS Validation Report

Validation report: What is a validation report

Viewing the information HandiTax lodges electronically with the ATO

Warnings and Income Tax Returns

 

 


HandiTax: Reports and Filters

ATO client and EFT report file extensions

Blanking out client identifiers( EG TFN) for Tax returns and Worksheets

Benefeciary Listing with missing TFN details

Client Expression: Basic guide to creating a client expression

Client Expression: BAS and IAS sequence numbers

Client Expression: Based on contents in a tax return

Client Expression: Flag 8 selected

Client Expression: Post codes

Client list: Comparing your client database with the ATO database

Expecting (band, Text) error message

Exporting ATO ELS reports from HandiTax into Microsoft Excel

Inserting tax estimate details into your custom reports

Managed Funds detail report

MAWTO eligible, Supplement entered and working income blank

Rental summary report

Report: Birthdays in the next X number of days

Report Builder

Report Builder: Saving report profiles

Report: Client aged NN and over

Report: Using the tax return status in a client expression

Reports with only the primary tax payers name and not a repetition of the tax payer with all the associated forms

Showing the user name and date of report on report headers

Summary of tax payable by beneficiaries of a Trust

Summary report

Tax Return reports

 

 

 

 


HandiTax: Forms

Amended Forms

Capital Gains Tax worksheet summary

Capital Gains Tax worksheet

Capital Gains Tax worksheet: Entering Capital Gains and/or Losses without transactions

Client details form (CU)

Correspondence preferences (CP form)

Creating BAS forms from your ATO download

Depreciation report: The depreciation worksheet and the additional information field

Depreciation worksheet: Luxury motor vehicle limit

Editing the tax estimate disclaimer

Education Tax Refund

Error message: Taxpayer eligible for MAWTO - Item 13 must choose 'working' or 'non-working'

Entrepreneurs tax offset: Completing Item T13

Foreign income schedule

Income doubling up for return with individual PAYG PSS

Item IT6 and low value pool deductions

Item L1: Tax loss of earlier income years

Minor or non resident return

Natural increase in livestock

Non-commercial losses from partnership activities in the individual tax return

Reconciling depreciation in the company return

Refund of excess imputation credits where the taxpayer is not required to complete a tax return

Reportable Fringe Benefits: Individual and Related Reference's Tax Return

Signature changes for tax returns

Small Business and General Business Tax Break

Tax agent request form

Transferring items to the business worksheets

TFN and Annual withholding reports

Transfer of rental statement to the main form

Trust account details on the front cover

Trust distributions: Capital Gain distribution exceeds share of trust income

 

 

 


HandiTax: Printing

Order and quantity of schedules when printing tax returns

Printing: Bottom line of the page does not appear  to print

Printing a batch of tax returns using one of your client expressions

Printing older DOS HandiTax returns

Printing one mailing label per client

Print preview option

Printing tax returns for clients

 

 

 


HandiLedger: General

Changing the Background Colour of the HandiSoft Application

Client Details: Date Client Added to the Client Database and the Client's Age

Client Details: Client's website address

Client Extra Detail window

Deleting clients from the HandiSoft suite of programs

Licence: HandiSoft program license information

Program release notes 

Staff field added to ID section of Client Detail's window

 

 

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HandiLedger: Depreciation

Asset pooling: asset allocated to incorrect pool

Asset pooling: explanation of depreciation schedule

Depreciation report is blank or appears to be incorrect

Transferring a depreciation schedule from a client in HandiTax to an entity in HandiLedger

 

 

 


HandiLedger: Divisional Accounting, Branch Accounting and Sub Accounts

 

Branch accounting: Unable to consolidate balances in main branch

Divisional accounting

Divisional accounting: Distribution to members, partners or beneficiaries

Divisional accounting: Divisional reports and account descriptions

Divisional accounting: Posting to two different divisions within the same entry

Sub account descriptions

Sub accounts added for range of accounts

 

 

 

 


HandiLedger: Goods and Services Tax (GST)

 

 

BAS: completing the PAYG withholding section

BAS: which account and BAS item numbers do the master tax codes post to?

Hire purchase example for companies accounting for GST on a cash basis

Offshore invoices and GST charged by shipping agent

Posting entries with a GST and a GST free component

Private portion expenses journalised out for BAS

Quick tax code setup for your chart of accounts

Tax codes: deleting tax codes from your chart of accounts

Wine equalisation tax: processing entries

 

 


HandiLedger: Reports

 

Add Image Functionality in Flexible Report Writer

Adding, deleting or amending the order of reports in your complete report

Auditors report is blank

Balance sheet and profit and loss statements name style

Basic change to the reports: eg changing the compilation report

Complete report: adding additional reports

Complete report: changing the order of the reports

Complete report: cover page overwriting

Complete report: defining the reports to be included

Complete report the only report available in standard reports

Entity summary report

Five year period

Financial Report Setup

Individual or Corporate Trustee on Trustee Declaration

Interest bearing liability accounts

Navigating around the complete report with hyperlinks

No reports for a new company

Not all the reports are reflected under standard reports

Notes to the financial statements: numbering sequence

Partners declaration and proprietors declaration

Pluralisation of company reports

Previewing and printing the complete report for the current year only

Printing reports with the footer related to audited accounts

Purging the chart of accounts to ensure reports run correctly

Ratio analysis report: Including the report in a user master set of preferred reports

Report header

Report not found or is empty

Report options

Rounding off in cents in reports

Showing sub accounts in reports

Statement of Comprehensive Income

Transaction report: Access violation error when trying to run a transaction report

Trial Balance: Showing the control account and sub accounts

Trouble shooting report

 

 


HandiLedger: Time+Billing Integration

 

Integration with Time+Billing

 

 


HandiRegister: EDGE

Changing from primary to secondary mailbox

Last EDGE login

Modem transmission not available from the lodgement menu

Password expired: update

RA71: Read download option not available

Transmission and validation reports

 


HandiRegister: Functionality

Automatically generating minutes when changes are made to company registers

Corporate key

DX number field in agent options window

Deleting forms

Error message: Officeholder birth details need to be filled in

Error message: Signing officer name - mandatory element has no value

Files not processed Out_pr message

Form 362: Notification of appointment or cessation of a registered agent by a company

Form 484C: Change to company details

Function keys

History of company changes

Individual details: Australian State of birth

Issuing share capital

Issuing shares to joint shareholders

Last Annual Review Year field on the "Company Details" window

Mailing Labels for Companies and Individuals

Merging individuals

Minutes: Viewing automatically generated minutes linked to forms

Occupier of registered office someone other than the company

Reviewing and viewing annual statements

Special Purpose Company change

Transferring shares

Using the HandiSoft client database to complete new individual details

 


HandiRegister: Reports

  

Annual Review reports

Creating a custom designed resolution paragraph

List of companies where the registered office is at your premises

Minutes and resolution merge fields

Preventing companies that are no longer clients from appearing on reports

Shares and positions held by an individual

 


HandiTrust: Functionality

Amending the Authority form

Cheque forms: Setting up a default form for each bank account

Cheques: How to process out of date or lost cheques

Correcting an entry that has been posted

Deposits: Clearance days

Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) functionality and the bank account

Error account number 123456. Transfer illegal. Bank account does not exist

Function keys

Processing of assessment notices in HandiTax can be posted directly into HandiTrust

Transactions: Deleting and reversing transactions

Trust card balance does not display correct value as you enter transactions

Trust card inactive

 

 


HandiRegister: General

Unable to find client record in client database for selected client

 

 


Practice Manager - Contact: Reports

Displaying contacts name on "event" reports

"Events for clients" report: Displaying client's phone number and address

Event reports include a tomorrow option

Printing client "mail out" mailing labels


Practice Manager - Jobflow Manager

Adding new folder buttons under the Master folder button

Columns to show

Showing the screen columns in your reports

Tasks: Showing your tasks in the Practice Manager - Contact To Do List

Tracking the progress of a job

Warning user about tasks that are overdue

 


Time & Billing: Functionality

Bank deposit slip

B Pay facility

Billable balance displayed in client window

Budgets: Introductory explanation

Changing debtor payment terms for your clients

"Client" window: Selecting the information to display in the last five columns

Close off date for data entry

Disbursements: Importing disbursements from an ASCII file

Events not transferring from Practice Manager to Time & Billing

Finding clients by their BPay reference number

Function keys

Preventing staff members (users) from seeing their charge out rates

Recalculating client and staff summaries

Resigning staff members

Statistical information summary displayed in Practice Manager

Time & Billing validation client

 

 

 

 

 


Time & Billing: HandiLedger

Integration with HandiLedger

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Time+Billing: Invoices

Batch printing invoices

Deleting credit card facility from remittance advise

Invoice up to date and invoice date

Invoice Functionality Demonstration Video

Interim Balances: Interim Balances as opposed to old style b/f, c/f balancing when invoicing

Interim Balances: Understanding Interim Balances

Payment due date included on client's invoices

Sorting invoices by partner

Standard invoice amounts

Temporary invoices

WIP items appear to be missing when trying to invoice the client

Work in Progress (WIP), Interim balances and Billable Amounts

 

 

 

 

 


Time+Billing: Reports

Allowing only one user to run certain reports

Aged debtors report

Clients name style in reports

Client Summary Report

Denied clients in HandiSecurity excluded from the reports

Editing the letterhead

Job Reconciliation report and the WIP Reconciliation report

Most frequently used reports

Not posted time reports

Report Information

Report Profile: Organising a set of preferred reports

Short description codes in WIP related reports

Staff productivity reports and WIP adjustments

Unable to run user defined report, as Page Setup has not been defined for the specific user

 

 

 

 

 

 


Time+Billing: Statements

Statement shows balance brought forward instead of details

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Time+Billing: Timesheets

 

Charge out rates hierarchy

Commencement date and resignation date of staff members

Creating timesheet entries in Time & Billing from diary events in Practice Manager - Contact

Editing posted timesheets

Importing short duration events from Practice Manager - Contact

Non-current client options

Posting a particular timesheet item

Removing the "skipped" status from a staff member's timesheet

Staff timesheet permission settings do not appear to have been implemented

Time slip: Using a timer to enter timesheet details

Users not required to complete a timesheet on any given day

Using start and finish times instead of units

 

 

 

 

 

 


HandiLedger: Functionality

Adjustments to a closed year

Automatic text fill

Bank reconciliations and prior year outstandings

Bank reconciliations: sorting by cheque number

Changing financial year end for existing entities

Data entry: Entering data into HandiLedger from other programs without using the ASCII file import function

Duplicating transactions

Emailing HandiLedger data

Entity type: Incorrect entity type

Format editor

Function keys

HandiTax transfer facility

Journal entry options

Linking documents in Document Manager to the Entity in HandiLedger

Livestock: Entering livestock data

Livestock: Natural increase

MOYB: Importing MYOB data into HandiLedger

Out of balance statement of financial position or balance sheet

Prior year financials: entering prior year financials

Recurring entries

Resigning a member, partner or beneficiary

Reversing a transaction

Selected entity and toggling the "Entity details" window

Stock: entering closing stock values

Stock value does not appear to be correctly displayed in your reports

Superfund distributions

Suspense account not defined

Suspense account:message "No entries to suspense account" and the trial balance shows an amount in suspense

Suspense account: Must clear suspense account error message

Transferring data between Handiledger and HandiBiz

Trustee Company: Creating a trustee company or association

Trustee company: right of indemnity from Trust

Unpaid Present Entitlements and Trust Entities

 

 


HandiTrust: General

Trust cards

Understanding the key concepts