PURPOSE OF YEAR END REVIEW CHECKLIST:
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CLIENT MASTER DATA
- Ensure That the siliant master data in accounting application is upto date.
- Check the opening balances with previous year’s tax statements filed
BANK & CREDIT CARDS
- Ensure that bank balance as per accounting system is reconciled with the bank statement
- Ensure that all the credit card transaction are recorded and the balances are reconclied
PAYROLL IABLLITIES
- Ensure that there no unreconciled amount in payroll labllities
- Ensure that superannuation payble account is reconclled
- Have you ensure that the tax tables in your accounting software are up to date
- Did you reconcile the payg withholfings?
PURCHASES AND SALES
- Ensure that there no unreconclled amount in payroll llabllities
- Ensure that all the credit notes are recorded
- Ensure that all the credit notes have been settied for short payments
CASH & BANK
- Did you reconcle physical cash on hand with cash book as per accounting syste
- Ensure that the cash balance does not goes into negative at any time during year
- Ensure that all the cash expenses and receipts have been recorded
OTHER RELEVANT TANSACTIONS
- Summary of any major event durin the year
- Payments to share holders
- loan statemenr for loan taken from bank/ financial institution
- Details of withholding tax paid(if any)
- Retuens faild with tax authorities
- Any correspondence with goverment authorities
INVENTORY
- Did you do stock taking for your ear end inventories and account for any hortfall?
OTHER RELEVANT TANSACTIONS
- Ensure that there are no transaction in suspense account at the end of period
- Do the GST accounts bakance at the year end?
- Loan statement for loan taken from bank/financial institution