Financial Accounts - Switch rules effect notes
Would like to see switch rules work in the notes to the financial accounts the same way they work on the balance sheet - allowing for reclassification of accounts with negative balances, for example negative current asset to current liability or negative non-current liability to move to non-current asset.
These issues are particularly acute when an account goes from positive to negative and vice-versa between current year and prior year.
On the basis the switch rule does not operate correctly in the notes to the financial accounts, means that in many cases the switch rule is rendered an unusable feature - as switch rule will work in balance sheet but not in notes to financial accounts.
Alexander Knight
shared this idea
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Jim Bailey
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Would be a great help
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Dean McKenzie
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Same here, this should be a fundamental function for notes to the balance sheet.
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Todd O'Connor
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Yes, I've just spent all day trying to create a basic set of accounts only to fall at the final hurdle because the notes won't match the balance sheet. WTF?
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Donnie Buchanan
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Yeah I agree, it will be interesting to see if this gets delivered.
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Zoe Giles-Jones
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Yes - actually linking notes to the balance sheet and report codes from the balance sheet flowing to the notes, would allow for swing accounts between trade & other receivables and trade and other payables etc. to work in both balance sheet & notes (currently we’re restricted because the swing doesn’t work in the notes as receivable & payable are two separate notes that don’t connect).