1. Go to the client's Client Accounting > Trial Balance/Workpapers) tab.

2. On the TASKS bar, click Edit Configuration Details.

3. From the Product drop-down, select AccountRight 2013.0 or later.

4. Click the File Location ellipsis . The Select Company File window appears with the following options.

   Option	Description
   Search all libraries tab	Displays a list of all AccountRight files located in the local library and in the network library. If you've configured your practice my.MYOB settings, all online files your practice MYOB login has access to are also displayed.
   Browse tab	Search individual local, network and online library folders to find the company file.
   Search field	Enter any part of the file or company name in the Search field and click the Search button to find the file.

5. When you've found the AccountRight ledger, select the file and click the Select file button to configure the file.

   

   The File location, File path, Entity type and Industry type fields are automatically populated.

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   Statutory Reporter uses the Entity type and Industry type fields to smart-allocate accounts to groups. You can change the fields if you need to.

6. Enter the offline User name and Password for the client’s file.

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   This must be the offlineAdministrator's login credentials used to log in to the company file from the AccountRight software. If the file is online, this user must also be a Cloud administrator.

   

7. Select a Prior Year Balances option.

   Prior year balances	Description
   Use ledger balances	Prior year balances are received from the common ledger. Select this option if the prior year closing balances in your client's ledger are correct or if you want to post adjustment journals to your client's ledger to align their balances with yours.
   Use modified balances	Prior year balances will come from the balances you enter in the Modify Prior year balances window. If you need to correct your client's opening balances but you don't want to post journals into their ledger, use this option to display the right balances when you produce your Client Accounting reports.

8. Click OK. The balances are retrieved from the configured AccountRight file and displayed in the Trial Balance (Workpaper) period.

<h2><i class="fa fa-comments"></i>&nbsp;&nbsp;Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)</h2><br> 

This error appears where the system can't access the configured file.

Make sure you're logged into AE/AO with your MYOB login and that you can access the AccountRight file from within the AccountRight program.

For information on this error, see KB 37576: Error: "You have not configured a financial data source" in Client Accounting.

Make sure the file name doesn't contain any special charcters such as @#$%&/\*+.

If your client's company file is online, remove any special characters from the Company Name. For example, for file names such as "The Smith Family Trust T/A Coffee House Ltd", the ' / ' needs to be removed from the company name.

Where there's no special characters in the company name, make sure your Practice MYOB login has been invited to the practice as an Online Administrator. If you're not sure what your Practice MYOB Login is, a SuperUser or Administrator in AE/AO can check the email address entered in the Maintenance > Maintenance Map > Online > Practice my.MYOB Login Settings.

If your client's company file is an offline or 'desktop' file, make sure you've also saved a copy of your client's AccountRight file in your AccountRight library.

Still not fixed? Check out KB 36568: Unable to see all online files when configuring AccountRight into Client Accounting for troubleshooting.

If your client uses an online AccountRight file, your client's data is stored online and can be accessed from any computer. For offline or 'desktop' files, store the AccountRight file in your local or network library.

To access an AccountRight company file stored another computer, the file must be stored in a network library. A network library lets you store company files in a single location, which can be accessed by multiple computers in your practice. This feature is only available with the Server Edition of AccountRight.

If you choose to store files in a local library on your workstation, only your computer will be able to access the data in the AccountRight file through Client Accounting.

For information on setting up a network for AccountRight, see Set up a network.

For information on setting up a network library, see Add a network library

Client Accounting communicates with AccountRight via the AccountRight API. The API makes it possible to move information from Client Accounting to AccountRight and from AccountRight into Client Accounting.

For Client Accounting to display account balances from AccountRight in the Trial Balance or Workpaper period, a request must be sent to the AccountRight API to retrieve these balances. The API then confirms that the MYOB login of the logged in user has permission to access the file. If the user has permission to access the file, the account balances are then returned to Client Accounting.

The AccountRight API is available with AccountRight Server Edition. At the end of each in AccountRight Server Edition installation, you'll be prompted to install the AccountRight API.

If you accidentally cancel this installation, you can always run the installation manually from the C:\Program Files (x86)\MYOB\AccountRight\API_Installer folder.

A new version of the API tool is provided with every upgrade of AccountRight. You'll need to install this with each new version of AccountRight.

If you delete an employee or make an employee inactive, the employee’s file user access to any AccountRight (version 2013.0 or later) will be removed.

If you change an employee’s MYOB Login, employee's original login will also be removed from the file. This means the employee will no longer have access and you'll need to re-invite the employee using their new MYOB login.

Team Security (AE only)

Access to an AccountRight (2013.0 or later) file won't be removed should you choose to apply Team Security to the client and exclude the employee from the Responsibility team. However, if Team Security is applied and you remove an employee from the Responsibility team, file access will be removed for the employee and they will no longer be able to access the file.

For more information on Team Security and online files, see Securing your client's online ledgers.