Error: "The ledger is out of balance. Please balance your ledger and then initiate the migration again"

To migrate a ledger from MAS to AE or AO ledger, the MAS ledger must first be in balance.

We recommend checking the detailed Trial Balance report to ensure all your debits and credits are aligned. If your detailed Trial Balance balances, you may also want to run a summarised Trial Balance report to ensure the sum of your sub-accounts equal the balance that displays for the control account.

For more information, including steps on how to perform the above procedures, refer to Resolving an out of balance Trial Balance in MAS.

If the error still occurs after the ledger has been balanced, check your Share of Profit accounts to make sure that there are no manual journal entries to these accounts. You can either delete the entry or post them into another account.

If your balances aren't quite right, take a backup of the ledger and perform a Rebuild. This will rebuild the data files and recalculate balances.

1. Open the MAS ledger and from the Utilities menu, select Rebuild. The message "This process will rebuild data files & recalculate all balances, any early Exit from this routine, will require a restoration of original data" appears.
2. Click Proceed. The routine runs and the MAS detail screen appears.
3. Click OK.

To migrate a ledger from MAS to AE or AO ledger, the general ledger must first be in balance. We recommend checking the Trial Balance report to ensure all your debits and credits are aligned.

If your balances aren't quite right, try taking a backup of the ledger and recalculating the balances.

For more information and steps on how to resolve an out of balance general ledger, refer to Error: "Warning - Accounts do not balance to Zero" when posting transactions in General Ledger.

Check the Income allocation definition under General Ledger > Income Allocation Definition. Ensure there is an account (or more in the case of a partnership) and it is allocated to 100%.

The Profit and Loss account should not have any transactions assigned to it. For example, for a company entity the account 639 - Current Year Earnings shouldn't have any journals to this account.

If there are transactions in the income allocation account, these need to be reallocated another account.

If your ledger balances, you may need to delete any unused accounts.

If there aren't many unused accounts in the Accounts Maintenance for your client, you can delete individual account codes by selecting the account you wish to delete and pressing F8 on the keyboard.

If there are a large number of account codes not being used, you can also delete these in bulk. For more information as well as detailed steps on how to delete account codes, refer to Deleting account codes in AO Classic General Ledger

Check that there is no more than one sub account master (i.e. control account) per sub-account by reviewing the Chart of Accounts report. For example, the account 198/01 should only have one sub account master, being the account code 198.

To print the chart of accounts:

1. From your client's general ledger, click the Reports menu and select Chart of Accounts Reports.
2. Select Standard Chart of Accounts Report and click Next, then Print.
3. Ensure the correct printer is selected and click OK.

To migrate a ledger from AE Accounts to AE ledger, the Accounts ledger must first be in balance.

We recommend checking the Trial Balance report in Reporter to ensure all your debits and credits are aligned. If you need to distribute any profit to partners or beneficiaries, you'll need to do this when you Verify the ledger.

For more information about balancing the ledger in AE Accounts, refer to Balance Sheet is out of balance in AE Accounts.

1. Open the Accounts ledger and follow the menu path: Reports > Report Setup > Linked Accounts. The Linked Accounts window appears.
2. Check that the account codes used on the Debit Account column and Credit Account column appear only once. If there is an account code used more than once, select Edit and focus on the duplicated account code. The duplicated account code is selected.
3. Type D to delete one of the links. The extra link is deleted.
4. Then press F4 to save and exit then press F5 to refresh the data. The data is updated. When you view the Trial Balance, it balances and reconciles to the General Ledger report.

1. From within your client's AE Accounts ledger, follow the menu path File > Properties > General...
2. Ensure that the ROUNDOFF CODE field is blank. If there is a code in the ROUNDOFF CODE field, you'll need to remove it as follows:
   1. On your keyboard, press the down arrow key until the cursor appears in the ROUNDOFF CODE field.
   2. With the cursor in the ROUNDOFF CODE field, press the Delete key on the keyboard.
   3. Press the ENTER key until the General window closes.

   

1. From within your client's AE Accounts ledger, follow the menu path: Reports > Reporter > Design Client Reports.

2. Click the Chart Map tab located on the bottom left of the Practice Report Designer window. A list of Chart Map folders appear in the left-hand pane.

3. Click the

   

   button next to the Management folder. The Management subfolders appear.

4. With the TrialBalance folder selected, click the View Account Details icon on the Exploring Chart Map toolbar. 

   

   The CM.Management.TrialBalance window appears in the right-hand pane.

5. Click the drop-down menu next to Show sub codes and select Always, then tick the Include zero balances checkbox.

1. From within your client's AE Accounts ledger, follow the menu path Ledger > Account and Subaccount Titles. The Account and Subaccount Titles window appears with the cursor in the CODE field.
2. In the CODE field, enter an Account Code, then press the TAB key on the keyboard. The cursor moves to the TITLE field.
   

   

3. In the TITLE field, enter the name of the account, then press the TAB key on the keyboard. The cursor moves to the next row in the CODE field.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for each account code without a name. When finished, Press F4 on the keyboard to exit and save the changes.

1. From within your client's AE Accounts ledger, follow the menu path Ledger > Branch and Division Titles. The Branch and Division Titles window appears with the cursor in the GROUP field.

2. Enter the group number and division number. In the example above, The group number is 4 and the division number is 1.
3. For the Division field, enter the name of the division in the Title column.
   

   

4. Press the ENTER key until the division number and title disappear and the cursor reappears in the group column.
5. Repeat steps 2 to 4 for each Profit and Loss group and Division. When finished, press F4 on the keyboard to save and exit the Branch and Division Titles window.