Adding Income to Suspense and Re-Including Previously Unreported Income in a Period

Whilst reviewing your ingested income in Curve, you may need to delay certain lines from being reported into your next Period/s until further notice. Or perhaps there are a bunch of previously unreported income lines that you would like to easily proceed with calculating into your next Period. This is where our Suspense and Resolved Groups feature comes in.

Adding income to Suspense Groups

A Suspense Group allows you to set aside income lines that you do not wish to report in a Period, or at least set aside for now to report in the future instead. Once an income line is in a Suspense Group, they will not be reported in a Period, even if you include their respective sales file in a Period.

Within either an individual Income file or the Income DB page, you can use the usual search filters to find the exact income lines you wish to send to a Suspense Group. You can either include selected income lines only, or include all filtered income lines.

Upon hitting the Suspense button, you will be prompted to either create a new Group or select a previously-made one so that you can categorise your suspended income as much as you need to. You can create as many Groups as you like.

Managing your Groups

Once you have finished assigning your income lines to Suspense Groups, you can then head to the Income section > Groups page to manage this.

You can review which income lines have been assigned to which Groups and also move the income from a Suspense Group to a Resolved Group. Income lines which are in a Resolved Group will still not be reported in a Period when you include their respective Income Files in a Period. But, you will be able to include these Resolved Groups in a Period, allowing you to smoothly instruct Curve to report all income lines which are within this one Resolved Group.

To do that, open up the Suspense Group, view the income lines and select/filter the income lines you wish to resolve. Once you hit the Resolve button, Curve will prompt you to create a new Resolved Group or assign those lines to an existing one. Once you go back to the Groups page, you will see that those lines have been moved across to that Resolved Group.

You can also send income from a Resolved Group back to a Suspense Group if you need to, using the same process.

Including Resolved Groups in your Period setup

Now that your income lines are in a Resolved Group, you can instruct Curve to report this group of income lines. Simply go to your Period's setup page and include that Resolved Group in the setup page's Included Resolved Income section - just like how you would include your income files in a Period. Upon hitting Calculate, the income lines from that Resolved Group will now calculated into a statement, as instructed by the setup of your Works and Contracts.

In summary, the suspense status of a line impacts how a line can be reported into a statement in the following ways:

• An income line which is not in a Suspense or Resolved Group will report into a statement if the Income File of which that line is a part of will be included in a Period
• An income line which is in a Suspense Group will never be reported into a Period, even if its respective Income File is included in a Period. The lines with a Suspense status will be ignored.
• An income line which is in a Resolved Group will only be reported if that Resolved Group is included in a Period. Whether an income line its respective income file is included or not would not make a difference. Including the Resolved Group now becomes the trigger that decides whether those lines will be reported in a Period.