Accounts: Stop journal consolidation

When recording a journal entry in the old MYOB if you entered 4 different amounts going into the same account when you bank rec it appeared as 4 separate enteries, but in the new version it adds them all together. Would love it back the way it was in the old version as bank rec's are taking longer as i have to go into each journal separately to make sure that it is correct.

Please stop consolidating journals where separate amounts are in the one general journal are allocated to the one account code.  When looking at the account, I would like to see the individual amounts listed, rather than consolidating the amounts and only showing one line per journal.

When preparing a Bank Deposit from transactions imported from RetailManager all separate items are now grouped into 1 transactions.

In previous versions (v19 and earlier) they were separate transactions on the Bank Deposit screen.  This made it possible to add items to a bank deposit individually, which is needed for everyday business.

Can we please have the transactions ungrouped as they used to be?

I have brought this problem up a few times since 2011, and have been told that developers were going to fix it.

http://community.myob.com/t5/Upgrading-to-AccountRight-2011/Importing-Retailmanager/m-p/115092

From Barry:

Grouping of transactions with the prepare bank deposit account can cause concerns where you need to split transactions to different bank accounts.  v19 split every individual transaction where the new AccountRight 2011 is only splitting by payment type on the prepare bank deposit account.  This issue has been logged with our product developers.

For some reason I thought this had already been addressed in a previous service pack. It is extremely disappointing to find that line consolidation by account number continues.

The reasons for keeping it as it was are:

1. Manual entry of multiple bank transactions, which are intended to be separately reconciled

2. Use of line memo on journals.

3. Impact when importing from other systems.

What I find most concerning is that we are even being asked to vote to return posting processes to the old way.

I have the same problem with journal entries that are imported from Retail Manager.  I have brought this up many times and have always been told that the developers were going to fix it.  It's still the same though.

I posted this to the Ideas Exchange a while back and got no comment from MYOB at all.

http://community.myob.com/t5/AccountRight-idea-exchange/Ungroup-Transactions-Imported-from-RetailManager/idi-p/141478

Everything worked fine back in v19.x but since then reconciling bank accounts has become nearly impossible.

Liam.

P.S. This is still happening in the latest 2012.9 version.

I'm in full agreement with Mike James' comments.

The business of having to vote for continuity of functionality between V19 and V2012.9 is unacceptable to all users.

Hello Dan

It's very nice to have these entries appearing as one in the debtors/creditors control accounts.

Would it be possible to distinguish between entries to control accounts and others?

I would have to agree with Mike and Tony regarding voting on ungrouping transactions, that are split by us but then grouped by the program. Why should we need to vote.  Not only is it changing something that was working correctly previously but have any of the programmers checked the Accounting Standards and verified if this is actually allowed under the laws that govern these things?  I think you will find that from an auditing and accounting standpoint it is a big NO NO. 

I have noticed that part of what I have mentioned previously has been fixed, eg when I process say a spend money transaction on my bank account with the allocation being to the same bank account MYOB does now actually show the in and out entries in my bank rec where before it showed nothing, but when I processed an entry the other day, which was a spend money for say $300 with the allocation split over two lines to the same bank account of $150 each MYOB decided again to group the deposit side as $300, which makes it hard to reconcile when I have two people repaying me $150 each and it comes through a week or two apart.

Regarding the grouping of the debtors and creditors entry as one, this is a absolute positive.  In previous versions if you for example received a payment for say $110 and didnt know who had an invoice for this amount, you could not just search for $110 you always had to remember to search for the GST exclusive amount, which made it a bit hard when there was a mixture of GST and GST free entries on the invoice, so I would definately vote to keep this improvement.