How do I add income post date of death?
This article will guide you through how to add and keep track of income received in the estate
💁 You can view income within estate accounts summaries and outputs at the click of a button at any stage of the administration process, providing you and your clients with clear updates any time you need
⚠️ Please always remember to update the realised value of an asset after you have added any income or expenses. See here for further guidance
- Where do I add income and receipts?
- How do I add income related to assets?
- How do I add interest on the client cash account?
- How do I add a receipt?
- How do I add sums received?
- Where can I view and manage income and receipts?
Where to find income & receipts
- Open the case you wish to add income to – How do I find a case I’m working on?
- Click Income & receipts on the left hand side menu

- Click Add new income

- Select what type of payment received you wish to add to the estate
Income related to assets
This type of income allows you to add income generated from an asset.
- After clicking add new income, choose Income for the category

- Choose the Asset type the income relates to from the dropdown menu

- A list of assets within the type of category you have chosen will appear
- Choose which item you want to relate the income to
- Choose the income source
- Select taxable or non-taxable - this will determine where the income displays in your estate accounts
- If this is the first post DOD income entry added to the asset and you entered an income value accrued up to date of death, you will see an additional question asking if the value entered includes the value accrued up to DOD. When you enter the income value received, you'll see the split of income pre and post DOD

- Click Save
Adding interest to the client cash account
This type of income allows you to add any interest accrued on the client cash account
- After clicking to add new income, choose income for the category
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In the Asset type menu, choose Client cash account

- Once you have chosen Client cash account this will automatically update the Asset field to Client cash account
- Income source will automatically update to Interest
- Select whether this income is taxable
- Enter the income value
- Click Save
- This income will show on the Client cash account, Reconciliation and Income & receipts tabs within the estate accounts area. Where can I find this?
- On the estate accounts exports it appears in the Income section with the description Client cash account
Receipt
This type of income is to show any money received into the client cash account after death
- Choose Receipt for the category
- Enter information into all relevant fields

- All receipts will show as deposited into the client cash account
- Click Save
Sums received
This type of income is to show any money received after the date of death that was paid directly in to the deceased's bank account before its closure
- Choose Sums received for the category

- Choose the associated bank account from the Asset dropdown menu
- Enter information into all other relevant fields
- Click Save
View and manage income transactions within a case
- Click the Income & receipts section on the left hand side menu:

- This will take you to an overview:

- Each income item is categorised by type, with additional filtering options available at the top of the screen.
- To edit an item click View, once open make the required changes and click Save
- To delete, click on the three dots to the right of the relevant item and choose Delete
View client cash account interest, income and receipts within estate accounts summary and the estate accounts output
- Click into Estate accounts on the left hand side menu and from there you can view all estate accounts tabs
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- Within Income & receipts you will see the items you have added summarised by category
- Within Reconciliation you will see a total for all income and receipts and a separate total for any income received outside the client cash account
- Within Client cash account, you will see any income deposited into client cash account
- To view the full set of accounts, click Export and choose to view in pdf or excel
✋ If the income is more than four tax years from the date of death, it will not fit within the columns on the pdf output but will be calculated in the total
👍 Any income more than four tax years from date of death will be visible on the excel output
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