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How to bring forward opening balance for cash and cash equivalent.

Posting – Post file maintenance – entries – click on current year post file and change – change the accounting standard to UK GAAP (this…

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Can you for a Community Interest Charity (CIC) using company Formation?

Only Limited companies (Limited by shares) and Limited liability partnerships (LLPs) can be formed.

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Error ‘The new year end date must be within 4 days of the mean accounting end date’ when trying to change or create a new accounting period

Go to client| view| tax tab| remove date from Mean accounting date| save. If that does not work, click on client | view | history…

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9999 fatal statement that directors acknowledge/acknowledges their responsibilities

Go to Edit| directors/secretary| see if any director has a TO date entered| if there is click onto the director so it is high lighted|…

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Personal Tax- How to create a joint Share/Asset between partners?

Dividends and capital Assets - First create the shareholding or an Asset- save it. Then open it up again Tick the Jointly held option and…

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Business Tax- Box L45 must equal the lesser of box L25 and L40. If L25 is not completed then Box L45 must equal 0 (9732)

This is linked to your RDEC entries. First ensure you are on the latest IRIS version - help and about and go through the three…

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Business Tax- Cannot edit values in Creative Expenditure 665 or Creative tax credit 540

You have already made entries under the Creative Expenditure box 665 and Creative tax credit box 540 - but now you cannot edit the values.…

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P11D or 64-8- Taxi box allocation error. Box id200. Box page 1. Fill id 200. This box has 0 lines or 0 columns

This is an environmental issue on your PC workstation/remote server/host causing this error when generating a P11D or 64-8. This may affect other reports as…

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3312 Balance sheet or director date of approval is missing

To resolve this go into data screens / company information / dates of reports / dates of directors approval as below Even if the dates…

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Error Element number held is invalid

Will need to go to Edit| share register| Events tab| in here will need to see if there are any events that have incomplete in…