We have just done our year end closedown for a previous financial year.

We had a transfer of money from one fund to another.

The Transfer funds button works directly on the Balance Sheet which is incorrect for the transfer we did: we did it via the P&L.

At closedown the nominal in the P&L with this transfer was ignored as there was a zero balance on it.  However, the sum of the transactions for this nominal are NOT zero for each of the funds within it.  As such they should have been adjusted to the appropriate reserve nominals in the balance sheet which they did not.

As a result the balance sheet reserve nominals for the affected funds are incorrect as at the end of the year.  And I'm going to have to put a manual journal through to fix the errors.

Will this bug be fixed?

Or are we going to have to set aside a section of the P&L with a separate nominal code for each fund so that a transfer between funds will be done as a CR to one and a DR to another - this section of the P&L having a net zero total.

It is clear that the charities module is a poor cousin to the Sage accounts with the minimal being done to get it to work, requiring users to have to create work arounds for features that ought to be there but aren't.  If it wasn't for the time and effort I've put into creating workarounds and reports for our needs we would be chucking Sage and going for a more charity friendly accounts package in the very near future.