The process for the accounting cutover to set up is:
Start with the following:
- Unpaid Debtors at 30 June 2021 – we have a template for import into Wise Owl
- Adjusting entries will need to be made so your trial balance matches step 4 below.
- Unbilled fees and outlays at 30th June 2021 – we have a template for import into Wise Owl
- Adjusting entries will need to be made so your trial balance matches step 4 below.
- Review chart of accounts
- Wise Owl will push in the fees and outlays accounts;
- QuickBooks will populate a lot of the other accounts
- Some QuickBooks accounts need to be tweaked
- Some accounts will need adding.
- Enter your trial balance at 30 June 2021 into QuickBooks
- Check it balances
- Enter or import to Wise Owl Legal from 1 July 2021 to current and allow to push through to QuickBooks Online:
- Outlays to customers
- Fees to customers – can be entered on invoice as one line if the invoice has already been issued from another system
- Customer to invoices
- Receipts from customers
- Connect your bank account to QuickBooks.
- Set up the bank feeds
- Remove the silly opening entry automatically created
- Exclude data pre 30 June 2021
- Run Bank reconciliation for 30 June 2021 and match to previous
- Start making rules
- Process data from 1 July 2021
- Be careful when processing bank feeds that you don’t duplicate the data Wise Owl data pushes into QBO.
TRAPS FOR YOUNG PLAYERS
QBO items to MATCH to Wise Owl Items - Invoices to customers
- Outlays for clients
- Receipts from clients