Blunders causing reconciliation problem

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I'm afraid I have really messed up this one and cannot figure out how to recover. On January 31 I made a vendor payment of $401.30 by cheque 2189 but neglected to set the payment method to "cheque" so it went to the default "pay later".  The JE was 641. The cheque was cashed Feb. 19. For some inexplicable reason on Feb 11 I did an entry on JE646 (labelled ADJ2189) which created a DR for the bank and a CR to AP of the $401.30. So the situation at the moment is: 1. - There is an AP showing against the vendor for $401.30. 2 - The vendor Aged Detail shows an amount owing of $401.30. 3 - the Expense Acct has been debited with $401.30 on J641. 4 - the bank reconciliation is showing an unresolved amount of -401.30. I have made 7 copies of the Company trying to resolve this as I did not want to mess up the original any more than it is. Apart from advising me to "stop doing stupid things" can anyone help me with this?

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    1) Current problem resolution is to record the cheque in Payments.  If you get an error that Cheque 2189 has already been used, put a dot at the end.  Then your bank should reconcile after you clear the cheque.

    2) If you want to trace the errors, do a Report; Journal Entries; All; and set dates to Jan 31 to Feb 11 and check off Show Corrections.  Then you would be able to see all the entries for 401.30 to see how things went wonky.

  • 0 in reply to Carolyn Longstreet

    Carolyn L. Thank you so much for that fix for my problem. So much appreciated. Also for the information on how to trace errors. No doubt it will be useful in this instance but also when I make the next unintended blunder.