Can I show a bank account that is not in my company's name?

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My company took some time to get the necessary filings and paperwork together and establish its own bank account. During the time in which we did not have our own bank account, we used the bank account of a predecessor company. We had full control and access over the account and any and all activity that flowed through this account was activity conducted by the new company and not the old.

For financial statement purposes, I show this account on the new company's books?

Any implication for tax purposes?

I feel like the facts and circumstances dictate that this account obviously belongs to the new company being that it had full control and use and being that there were no activities being conducted by the old company.

The fact that the account was in the old company's name, though, raises some question.
 

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How much cash is in the bank account?

I don't see an issue with including it in the new company, but how it gets on the G/L is the question.
 

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Every check you issue from old company on behalf of new company:
Old company books
Dr due from new company
Cr cash

New company books
Dr expense or asset ac
Cr due to old company

Then when new company gets its own bank acct, new company can pay back old company
 

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