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Mclowd User Guide for SMSF Trustees

ATO Documents

In the ATO document templates category, currently there is only a Transfer Balance Account Report form, provided as a PDF document. Although users of Mclowd Pro Version and Mclowd Premium Version can have prepare and lodge their TBAR reports online with Mclowd's automated TBAR feature, users who might have a preference for lodging manually can use this template to prepare their report.

Audit Documents

In the Audit section, a handy Audit Check list is supplied as an MS Word™ file. It lists all the documents Trustees should supply to their auditor and provides a convenient form for supplying necessary information and a template declaration for trustees to sign.  

Cashflow Forecast

The Cashflow Forecast is an MS Word™ template for listing current cash holdings and anticipated outgoings.

Cheque Reconciliation

Cheque Reconciliation is an MS Word™ template for listing cheques drawn and noting which have been presented.

Investment Strategy

To comply with law, Trustees should review the Fund investment strategy regularly. The Investment Strategy MS Word™ template makes it easy to comply and to supply the auditor with a neatly formatted summary of the agreed Strategy in the appropriate form.  .

Member Declarations

Trustees of funds with members aged between 65 and 74 and not fully retired may find the MS Word™ Work Test Declaration template in the Member Declarations section useful. An MS Word™ template, it makes it easy for members to comply with the ATO's Work Test requirements.

Minutes

Fund Trustees have an obligation to Minute meetings of Trustees and to ensure their discussions and decisions about certain matters are recorded in an appropriate form. Auditors may wish to inspect Minutes, and records must, by law, be retained in the Fund's files. The Minutes section of Template Documents provides a convenient set of MS Word™ templates for minuting:

Meetings of Directors

Capital Withdrawals

Receipts of Non-Concessional Contributions, and

Trustee Company Minutes

as well as a general Minutes template for documenting other resolutions.

Pension

The Pension section contains an MS Word™ Minimum Pension Calculation template that lists the current % draw requirements for pensioner members and enables Trustees to enter member name, Benefit, % and Minimum pension draw and then to keep running details of pension draws in a table to ensure compliance with laws governing the amount that must be drawn annually from a pension account.

Reports Pack

The Reports Pack section contains an MS Word™ template to enable easy creation of a Compilation Report. This document is designed for the use of practitioners supplying report packs to clients.

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