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This information applies to MYOB AccountRight version 19. For later versions, see our help centre.


 

 

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When you start a new financial year or rollover your company file, some transactions are purged (deleted) from your file. This support note explains the circumstances under which some transactions are purged and others are not.

For information on rolling over your financial year see the AccountRight help (Australia | New Zealand).

 When rolling over the financial year

  • Selecting to purge specific transaction types will not affect the account history (shown on the History tab when viewing the account). But note that the history is only retained for the current and last financial years, regardless of what you choose to keep when rolling over. For example, rolling over from financial year 2017 to financial year 2018 will purge account history for financial year 2016.
  • If AccountRight displays "Not Responding" or appears unresponsive, be patient - the rollover is actually continuing in the background. Interrupting the rollover process can corrupt your company file.
  • If you have a large company file (500MB or larger), there are additional steps you can take to speed up the rollover process. For more information, including how to determine your company file size, see our support note Rolling over a large company file to a new financial year.

 

What happens when I roll over my company file?

In theory when rolling over a company file to a new financial year, the closed and reconciled entries from the previous financial year are purged from the database. This results in a decrease of the file size and an increase in software performance. In some instances the file size may increase in which case you can optimise the file to reduce its size (File menu > Optimise Company File).

There are a number of reasons why transactions will remain in the company file after a rollover. Please note that the transaction types below do not act in isolation. Even though a transaction is closed and reconciled, it may still remain in your company file after rollover.

The following transactions have the potential to remain in your company file after a rollover. Depending on your software version, some transaction types will not be applicable.

 

Unreconciled transactions

When you select an account that has been reconciled in the last step of the rollover process, the reconciled transactions will be purged but the unreconciled transactions will remain.

Start a new financial year window with reconciled account selected

If you select an account in the last step of the rollover process and a transaction has not been reconciled, the transaction will remain.

Start a new financial year window with non-reconciled account selected

If you remove the tick, even if you have reconciled the account before, the unreconciled transaction will be purged.

Start a new financial year window with reconciled account selected

If you select all the accounts and they have not been reconciled, but have been closed because the sale has been paid in full, the entries will remain in the company file. These transactions can be viewed through the transaction journal and a number of reports, but you won't be able to zoom into the entry because the information behind the entry has been purged.

Start a new financial year window with all accounts selected

Payroll liability accruals (Australia only)

When rolling over a company file you will get to a step which gives you the option to Keep Unpaid Payroll Liability Accruals. This refers to both Pay Superannuation and Pay Liabilities. We recommend keeping this option selected.

Receipts and payments to be processed window with all 3 options selected

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Undeposited funds and electronic payments

We recommend leaving these options selected. This is because although you may not use the Undeposited Funds and Electronic Payments function, you may have linked the wrong accounts to Undeposited Funds and Electronic Payments. This may result in unreconciled transactions being purged.

Linked accounts window with wrong account selected for electronic payments

If you do not either create new linked accounts and link them, or leaves the boxes checked when Starting a New Financial Year, the transactions will remain in the file. We recommend that you set up the linked accounts correctly to allow these entries to be purged. You can achieve the same result by removing the tick from the check boxes, but this is not recommended.

Linked accounts window with correct account selected for electronic payments

Job related reimbursements

Customer Cameron is being tracked for reimbursables, linked to job 001.

Job information window with track reimbursables option selected

When a purchase is entered against job 001, the reimbursable record is triggered.

Sample purchase with job 001 listed in Job column

The purchase has been paid in full but will remain in the database until the reimbursement is applied or the Track Reimbursables option is removed from the Job. Once applied and once the file is rolled over, the Bill for $3.00 will be purged.

Job information window with track reimbursables option deselected

Audit trail entries

If you use Audit Trail Tracking, transactions that appear on the Audit Trail report will still be purged if they have been reconciled and closed.

Preferences window with audit trail tracking option selected

If you deselect the Purge Audit Trail Entries option, the Audit Trail report will retain entries for the previous financial year, but these entries will not appear anywhere else in your company file.

Start a new financial year window with purge audit trail entries option selected

Keeping closed transactions and paycheque entries

If you choose to keep transactions from prior years or paycheques (Australia only) this will keep closed transactions. This will allow you to view the entries but not edit or change them. Be aware that keeping prior year data increases the size of your company file and can impede performance.

Start a new financial year window with keep paycheques option selected