Add or remove a Workpaper

Overview

Workpapers can be added to a tax return at both an account level, and an entity level. Workpapers are used to make adjustments to income tax calculations, ensuring accurate tax reporting. Workpapers will roll to the next tax year once they have been added, allowing you to retain information about previous tax movements.

Add a workpaper to an account

1. Navigate to Workpapers > Accounts > Trial balance.
2. Next to the account > click Add workpaper.
3. From the drop down menu > select the workpaper required for the account.
   
4. Click the account or workpaper name to open it. 
5. Enter your required adjustments.
6. Optional: Edit the Tax narration.
7. Optional: Edit the tax form disclosure.
8. Optional: Add a note, file or query.

Add a workpaper to an entity

1. Navigate to Workpapers > Workpapers.
2. Click New Workpaper.
3. From the drop-down menu select the required workpaper.
   
4. Add the required adjustment into the relevant field(s).
5. Optional: Edit the tax form disclosure.
6. Optional: Add a note, file or query.

Unlink a workpaper from an account

If you added a workpaper to an account but no longer want to associate the workpaper with that account, you can move the workpaper to the entity level.

1. Navigate to Workpapers > Workpapers.  
2. Click the workpaper you want to unlink (move).
3. Click the Settings icon > Move to Not in accounts.

Remove a workpaper

There are two ways to remove a workpaper.

Method one

1. Navigate to Workpapers > Workpapers.  
2. Click the workpaper you want to remove.
3. Click the Settings icon > Remove workpaper from this tax year.

Method two

1. Navigate to Workpapers > Accounts > Trial balance.
2. Locate the account that has the workpaper you want to remove.
3. Click the Settings icon for the account then click Remove workpaper from this tax year.

Troubleshooting

Unable to remove workpaper

This will occur when an account with a workpaper is included in a prior year that is a read-only editing mode. 

To resolve this:

1. Use the Goto menu to navigate to the earliest year the account appears. 
2. Open the More... menu > Click Settings.
3. Change Editing mode to Read-write.
4. Return back to your current year to remove the workpaper. 

Once this has been done you can update the editing mode of the prior years back to Read-only. 

What's next?

Learn about Adding a query, comment or signoff to a Workpaper.

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