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Importing and exporting data > Importing data > Importing an accounts list from MYOB Accountants Office
When you create a company file, you can choose to import an accounts list from a file provided by your accountant (see Create a company file). If the file was created by MYOB Accountants Office—with a .txt extension—follow this procedure to import the accounts list. (Ask your accountant for a new file if it does not have a .txt extension.)
Once you have imported an accounts list from MYOB Accountants Office, you can import journal transactions from your accountant. For more information, see Enter end-of-year adjustments.
To import the accounts list provided by your accountant
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Go to the File menu, choose AccountantLink, then Receive from Accountant, and choose List of Accounts. A message appears, informing you that the account levels might be reset.
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Click Yes if you want to continue the import. The Open window appears.
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Select the file containing the accounts list sent by your accountant. The default name of the file is MYOB_SET.txt. However, your accountant may have renamed the file.
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Click Open to open the file and begin the import process.
The accounts are imported and a message is displayed, giving you the results of the import. If you get a warning or an error message indicating that the import was not successful, refer to the import log file in your software program folder for a list of errors or warnings. This is a text file—readable by most word processors and text editors—and lists the problems encountered during the import. It is called MYOBPLOG.txt.

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