trial balance - how to find mismatch question

[Adrien Monteleone]

I don’t perform a close-books operation so I never bothered with this report. On a whim I ran it to see what would happen. I’m pretty careful about all of my transactions. Each of them self-balances and my imbalance and orphan accounts are empty.

Yet, sure enough, the Trial Balance has $111.59 too much in debits. An even amount might clue me into a duplicate somewhere, but an odd amount has me stumped. (even with a duplicate, wouldn’t the credits also be duplicated?)

Time to play the narrow down the date range game I suppose.

Elmar,

Reduce your ending date so the range is half of what it was. Re-run the report. Is it sill out of balance? Keep doing this till you get a balance, then set that ending date to a new start date, and start working forwards till you get out of balance again. This will help you narrow down where on the calendar the error occurred.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Feb 15, 2018, at 9:13 AM, Elmar <etschme at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The recent threads on trial balances has me wondering why mine seems to be ~$1600 out of balance, despite having everything else in the account balance and reconcile correctly, i.e. nothing in the imbalance account, and setting the dates to the earliest date in the file and today.  Either I am not using it correctly or I do not understand how to 1) use it and 2) find out what to do when it doesn't balance.  Is there a tutorial?  The webpage documents (section 10.3.4.11. Trial Balance) doesn't give much help. - Elmar
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