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When Client Cancels the Accountant's Review Copy
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When Client Cancels the Accountant's Review Copy

By Douglas Sleeter and Joe Woodard

When the client creates an accountant's review copy of their data file, it restricts them from performing certain tasks, for example modifying lists. Since this frustrates many clients, they often choose to “cancel accountant's review copy.”

If your client “cancels accountant's review copy”, it will effectively “orphan” the changes you make and send back to them in the AIF file.

Background: When the accountant is working with the accountant's review copy and then “exports changes for client”, QuickBooks creates a file (with an AIF extension) containing the journal entries that the accountant created and that are to be imported into the client's data file (their QBW file). This AIF file is nearly the same as an IIF file except that it contains some special information that specifies the company file into which it can be imported. This special information is stored on the top two lines of the AIF file.

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