Interesting Discovery in my accounts -- more info...

[Ronal B Morse]

Also check the orphans and imbalance accounts for strays.

RBM



On 12/02/2017 03:55 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> Jay,
>
> My first thought is that sometime after you closed the books you probably
> inadvertently entered additional transaction(s) dated before the closing
> date.  Did you make an archive backup then that you can compare to your
> balances as of that date in your current data?
>
> If there were a very limited number of transactions you might be able to
> determine whether they were erroneous and could (and should) be corrected.
>
> David C
>
> On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> On 12/02/2017 04:01 PM, Jay Ridgley wrote:
>>
>>> Good Afternoon,
>>> I just discovered that in 2014 a number of my expense accounts were not
>>> correctly closed (they had a balance other that ZERO)!
>>>
>> I have always closed my books at the end of an accounting period.
>>
>> However, upon further investigation, it appears that the 2013 close book
>> transaction was not correctly performed.
>>
>> How that happened I have no idea. Most likely I did the close book for
>> that year incorrectly and missed it. Is it recoverable? For instance can a
>> close books be run with a date of 12/31/2013?
>>
>> I do not want to start over with a new set of books but I may have to do
>> so.
>>
>>> Questions that I have:
>>>
>>> 1. How did it happen?
>>>
>> See above
>>
>> 2. Has this happened to anyone else?
>>> 3. How do I correct the problem?
>>>
>>> I can not go back and recreate 3 YEARS of data.
>>>
>>> Ideas...
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jay
>>>
>>
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