Activity Statement date period wrong in Reckon One

Jeremy Green
Jeremy Green Member Posts: 6
edited October 2017 in Reckon One
When you go into the Activity Statements section in Reckon One, under Advisor, the period dates are not in alignment with the ATO.

For example, I am offered in Reckon One:

Quarter 1 - September to November 2015
Quarter 2 - December 2015 to February 2016
Quarter 3 - March to May 2016
Quarter 4 - June to August 2016

However my quarters that I report on are:
Oct 15 - Dec 15 
Jan 16 - Mar 16 
Apr 16 - Jun 16 

How do you get the product to align its activity quarters to your reporting requirements?

Regards,
Jeremy

Comments

  • Kim Chapman - COS Business Solutions
    Kim Chapman - COS Business Solutions Accredited Partner Posts: 204 Accredited Partner Accredited Partner
    edited October 2017
    Hi Jeremy Judging by your two posts, I beleive your financial year must be set to 1 Sept to 31 Aug, as this is the date range being picked up by both the BAS and TPAR. A manual adjustment to the reporting date will be required. I beleive your P&L reports etc will also be picking up the above mentioned period also. There are some situations that are so unique that requires special consideration. Unfortunately the requirement of the 9999 postcode is very unique to your situation. Special situations often require specific knowledge which you were able to gain from the ATO. Going forward you now know how to deal with this, thus your problem is solved. Kind Regards Kim Chapman
  • Jeremy Green
    Jeremy Green Member Posts: 6
    edited August 2016
    Thanks for getting back to me very promptly and you are correct over the dates.  The postcode is not a major issue for me, but I am sure would be frustrating for other international users. My point is though:

    1.  TPAR is for the last period ending end-June.  This does not relate to the financial year of the company.  Unfortunately you cannot set the reporting period for TPAR which you can for other reports - that would be a solution.

     and

    2.  The predefined quarters in the BAS report do not relate to the account date.  Not a useful function.

    Any chance you can look to fix at least (1)?

    Thanks again.

  • Rav
    Rav Administrator, Reckon Staff Posts: 15,305 Community Manager Community Manager
    edited February 2017
    Appreciate the feedback Jeremy, I have made our Reckon One Product Manager aware of both your threads this morning and are looking into it.

    I'll keep you updated here,

    Cheers
    Rav


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  • Rav
    Rav Administrator, Reckon Staff Posts: 15,305 Community Manager Community Manager
    edited February 2017
    Hi Jeremy,

    Just wanted to get back to you on this, Reckon One has received an update to the TPAR functionality which has addressed the majority of points you have highlighted over the last week.
    1.  Reckon One continually complained that I had not filled in all of the data needed in the General settings.  Even though all data indicated required had been filled in, I needed to put an entry everywhere.

    The wording of the validation requirements has been updated to be more specific.

    The payer company information required in the TPAR file is

    • ABN
    • Legal name 
    • Legal address
    • Contact name
    • Phone
    2. I have an overseas physical address.  The ATO requires that the postcode by '9999'.  How about forcing that value as I had to work that our through ATO validation.

    If a payer or payee address in Reckon One is configured as ‘international’ the TPAR file will use a state entry of ‘OTH’ & a postcode entry of ‘9999’. This was previously working for payees & also payer state however the payer postcode was not updating to ‘9999’. 

    This has been addressed and is now fixed.


    3.  The TPAR report incorrectly sets the dates to '1 September 2015 - 31 August 2016'.  All TPAR reports are for the year until 30 June xxxx.  So, the report should ALWAYS by 1st July xxxx1 - 30 June xxxx2.  I had to manually correct the submission date in the ATO file to make this work - it is not intuitive.

    The TPAR period is now July 1 to June 30 for books configured with a financial year period other than July 1 to June 30.  

     

    4.  The TPAR Supplier fails to detect incorrect supplier data.  In this case I had an Australian supplier without a State.  You need to force the State to be entered.

    The supplier status column in the TPAR page shows a status ‘Missing info’ for suppliers who are missing required information. We are forecasting in the next update there will be validation in place for the scenario where you click the ‘Generate file’ option where one or more suppliers have a status of ‘Missing info’.


    Cheers

    Rav


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