Accessing Manual Data Points and what they are for

Manual Data points server the process of reversing out some of the most confusing bookkeeping and tax adjustments that make accounting reprots confusing for business owners. Here is an explanation:


There are  3 potential adjustments: Owners wage, rent and superannuation/pension payments
Rent is easy, just put the rent for that branch in - this will then overrride and rent in the profit and loss and will therefore smooth out any pre-payments which are common
Super is easy, you just set that to 9.5% of the corresponding wage once you have worked this out  (or whatever the compulsory pension is for your country). This simply adjusts for a commercial owners superanuation.
The wage is the complicated one. It is used to adjust for a commercial owners wage because most busines owners do not take regular wages out of payroll and often underpay themselves.
Also bear in mind bookkeeping can be done in one of 2 ways:
A) The bookkeeper codes all the owners and associated parties to their own GL account - in this instance PD will remove the entire GLedger wage from all reports and the manual data points need to replace the owners entire wage. This is the preferred method as it also corrects for and bulk wage adjustments that owners make at the end of the financial year
B) The bookkeeper codes all wages to the same GL code (this is what you are currently doing): In this case you need to adjust for the DIFFERENCE between what the owner is collecting through payroll and their fair wage
If I were you I would start coding all owner wages to their own General Ledger account  and from this point onwards apply the entire wage in the datapoint for owners wage. For the earlier dates do the adjustments
Accounting software will allow you to set a different General Ledger code for the owners in the employee payroll setup so that owners wags can easily be identified.
Once you set a value in the manual datapoints profidiagnostix will carry on rolling forwards with the last value in the row until you change it.
NOTE: if you do add General Ledger categories for owners wages, map them to 'owners wages' in the setup wizard 

Follow these steps to access your manual data points, to add or edit your Owners Wage/Fair Owners Wage, Fair Rent and Superannuation/ Pension Adjustment.


  1. a. Log onto your datahub and at the top of your dashboard you will see "Settings"

b. Click on Settings and a drop down box will appear. Manual Data Points will be the first on the list.


c. Click on Manual Data Points and here you will be able in input your Owners Wage/Fair Owners Wage, Fair Rent and Superannuation/ Pension Adjustment.

Handy tip: when you click on an input box you will see a '->' symbol appear underneath this will populate the entire row with that value - use this, it saves heaps of time