Accessing the Report
From the Trustee Suite Main Menu toolbar, select ‘Reports’, click on the ‘UST Forms’ tab and select ‘Form 1, 2 and 3’ from the Print Reports screen to invoke the Parameters for Forms 1, 2 and 3 screen (shown below).
Generating the Report
From the Parameters for Forms 1, 2 and 3 screen, populate the following fields:
- Generate (three checkbox options): Select ‘Form 1’, ‘Form 2’ and/or ‘Form 3’ (a window for each form will be opened for each form selected).
- Trustee: Select the Trustee number or ‘-All-‘.
- Case: Select the Case number via the drop-down box.
- Date Range: Enter the appropriate date range.
- Date Signed: Enter the date the applicable form was signed (the default is the current date).
- Asset Type: Select ‘Both’, ‘Asset’ or ‘No Asset’ via the radio buttons.
- Sort by: Select ‘Case Number’ or ‘Case Name’ via the radio buttons.
Printing the Report
From the Parameters for Case Professionals screen, select from the following options:
• Preview: Selecting this button enables you to view before printing.
• Print: Selecting this button sends the report to the default printer.
• To PDF: This button prints the report to PDF and saves a copy to Document Management.
• Cancel: This button undoes any changes and cancels the print job.
• Save Defaults: This button sets the current field selections as the default each time this report is accessed.
• Options: Select the ‘Options’ button to invoke the following screen and then select the appropriate parameters:
• Trustees to Include when -All- is Chosen (leaving blank selects all): More than one Trustee generated report can be selected with this. To choose more than one Trustee, set the parameter screen Trustee field to ‘-All-‘ Then either type the list of Trustee numbers, separated by commas, or right click in the field and select Trustees from a list.
• Case Selection: Select either ‘All Cases’, ‘Asset Cases Only’, ‘No Asset Cases Only’ or ‘All Asset Cases and No Asset Cases when NDR > 341A + 120’ via the radio buttons.
• Orientation: Select either ‘Landscape’ or ‘Portrait’ via the radio buttons.
• Signature Line: Select either ‘Form 1’, ‘Form2’ or ‘e-sign Form3’ via the checkboxes.
• Form 1 and Form 2:
• Select either ‘Include Cases with a Closed Date or TDR Date in the Period’ or ‘Include Cases with a TFR Date Before the End of the Period’.
• Collate: Select the appropriate option from the drop-down menu.
• Form 2 (seven checkboxes and a drop-down menu):
• Include Transactions Before the Beginning of the Period: Selected by default.
• Include Accounts with no Transactions in the Period: Selected by default.
• Include Memo Transactions with a Zero Amount: Allows Memo Transactions that have not been coded with a “Ledger Category Code,” to be included or excluded from Form 2.
• Print Transaction Addresses: Leaving this box unchecked shortens Form 2, as transaction addresses will be excluded. Only the “Paid To” and “Received From” names will be printed.
• Print Net Estate Calculation: Selecting this checkbox will provide a breakdown on Form 2 of how the net estate figure was calculated.
• Show Account #: Select as applicable.
• Show Detailed Account Totals: Select as applicable.
• Print Case Transfers Total: Select the appropriate option from the drop-down list.
• Form 3 (Four checkboxes and a button option):
• Print Next Activity Memo: Select as applicable.
• Estimated Final Report Dates: With this option ETFRs will print in Column 7. If ETFRs are after the end of the reporting date, you must select “Disposition Dates after Thru Date.”
• Disp. Dates After Thru Date: This option will report the case status after the “thru” date at the end of the reporting period. Typing 1 to 3 characters in the ‘Mark Dates After Thru Date With’ field shows which disposition dates are after the “thru” date.
• Show Case Count: Select as applicable.
• Mark Dates After Thru Date With: Enter the appropriate value, as applicable.
• Set to 180 Day Reporting: When you click on this button, the Forms 1, 2 and 3 Options will be automatically set to the U.S. Trustee guidelines for 180 Day Reports.
• Footnote Fields (the text fields along the right side of the screen): One-character fields that you use to indicate on Form 1 and Form 2 certain features listed below.
• Diff. Original Trus. Value (for Form 1 only): The character typed in this field will indicate when the current Trustee value is different than the original Trustee value in Column 3.
• Transfer: A symbol in this field reports on Form 2 when a ledger transaction is a transfer in the receipts and disbursements column.
• Memo: On Form 2, this field will show when a memo has a category. Memo transactions without final report categories also appear when “Include Memo Transactions Without Final Report Code” is chosen.
• Voids & Refunds: A symbol in this field reports on Form 2 when a receipt is tied to a final ledger category of type expense and when a disbursement is tied to the Final Report category of income.
• Pay. to Debtor: Type the appropriate character in this field, as applicable.
• Non Compens. (compensables): This field also reports on Form 2 when ledger transactions are tied to categories “Exemptions paid to Debtor,” “Surplus to Debtor” and “Non-Estate funds paid to 3rd parties.”
• Click on the ‘OK’ button to return to the Parameters for Forms 1, 2 and 3 screen or on the ‘Cancel’ button to discard your selections.
• If you want to save your selected parameters, click on ‘Save Defaults’.
• To run the report(s), click on ‘Print’, ‘Preview’ or ‘to PDF’.