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Client Accounting (CAS) Binders

Run monthly or quarterly bookkeeping with per-period trial balances and a Period Delta report.

Run monthly or quarterly bookkeeping work inside Tallyfor with a Client Accounting Services (CAS) binder. Unlike a Tax binder, which holds a single year-end trial balance, a CAS binder holds a trial balance for every period in the year so you can track and report on each month or quarter.

What it does

A CAS binder pre-seeds all twelve months (or four quarters) when you create it. Each period carries its own trial balance and journal, workpapers are filtered by period, and a Period Delta report shows what changed between consecutive periods. You switch periods with a dropdown in the binder header.

How to turn it on

Client Accounting is a self-enable feature. Open the What's New panel and enable Client Accounting under the Self-Enable section. Once enabled, a Binder type option appears in the Create New Binder modal.

Creating a CAS binder

  1. On the Clients page, select a client and click New Binder.

  2. Choose the Year.

  3. Under Binder type, select CAS Binder.

  4. Under Cadence, choose Monthly or Quarterly.

  5. Select an existing Tax binder to roll forward from, or create a new empty binder.

  6. Click Create. Tallyfor pre-seeds all periods for the year.

Note: You can't roll a CAS binder forward from another CAS binder. Pick a Tax binder as the source, or start a new empty binder.

Working in a CAS binder

  • Use the period switcher in the binder header to move between Jan–Dec (monthly) or Q1–Q4 (quarterly).

  • The trial balance, journal, and workpapers update to reflect the active period.

  • CAS binders are labeled CAS Monthly or CAS Quarterly in the client's binder list.

Reporting

In addition to the standard reports, CAS binders offer the Period Delta report, which compares two consecutive periods so you can see exactly what changed.

Related features

Tax and CAS binders can coexist for the same client. CAS binders work with Tax binders only and are independent of the Consolidation feature.

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