Accounts: Stop journal consolidation

In MYOB V19 - you could enter a itemised Purchase using the same General Ledger Code (such as 5-1020 - Materials (Cost of Sales)) - and view each itemized line entered in the Job it was allocated to. Now, in Version 2013.2 - it is consolidated as one amount - meaning that you can no longer view each item individually.  We use the individual lines as a means to check when costing out a Job.  It is not practical for a 20 line itemized invoice to select a separate General Ledger Code for each item, so that we can view each item on our reports.

Please unconsolidate this urgently - it is not practical. 

If others would prefer it consolidated, then put an option on the menu when you go to look at the entries (say in the Job Activity Report) which allows you to choose an expanded or consolidated report.

Thank you.

Looking forward to a resolution......

Hi Dale

What about payroll entries i.e. SGC & RESC super, which need to be separated as they are paid to 2 different super funds or SGC is being direct debited and RESC is paid manually, these are still being consolidated in AR 2013.2, please fix.

If we go to the trouble of entering things separately i.e. on different lines even if the same account is being used, it is obvious that we need the separate lines to show in the general ledger!!!

Ditto from me, this consolidation is driving me to distraction. It as added to my workload when reconciling accounts.

The status is now "planned", but I would like to know when exactly it is going to be released?

Agreed.

This change has slowed my bank reconciliation process tenfold.

Don't understand why it was changed in the first place?!

Hi Jason,

Can we have an update on this - above you mention it is planned for 2013.1 release - but looking at the later posts - this hasn't happened?

Hi Jennie,

Happy to provide an update. I'm sure you are aware that our development team ended up focusing most of their resources on improving speed and performance for the 2013.1 and 2013.3 releases. This was based on overwhelming feedback from clients and Partners that it should be the team's biggest priority. Tackling journal consolidation is absolutely still planned (Dale Dixon made a public commitment at recent Partner Connection events) and will be tackled as soon as the team has addressed payroll performance. I will ask our product managers to provide a timeframe as soon as they are able.

All the best,

Jason Hill
Community Manager

I use retailmanager with Accountright 2016.3 and currently spend a minimum of 2 to 3 hours per import of data because accountright combines deposits and payment journals in the cash on hand account.

For example if we have 20 direct deposits for the day then when we post that to AR is creates one General journal file with 20+ entries.

I then have to redo each of those entries to enable it match the bank.

THis is also true with eftpos, cash etc as the total may not match the actual banking for the day because of time etc.

In the old MYOB it showed every individual journal in the prepare bank deposit and these could be matched against the actual deposit book, merchant summary etc.

It would save me hours especially when I'm away for a week, and comeback to 100+ journals to do.

This also happens with other imports as well if they have same date and account number.