In a new company. I need to add deposit after year end, when payment was received before?

Hi,

I just created a copy of our company to get rid of unused accounts. Our new year started April 1.

I am entering all the transactions into the new program and I have a couple transactions that were done on Mar 30, but didn't hit the bank until Apr 2. Now I can't enter in the payments without them hitting the bank account. A couple of the transactions are payments (chqs and Credit Card) received on account, but bank didn't record the deposit until the next business day. The other is HST and Tax instalment payments taken to the bank on a Saturday. Never done banking on a Saturday, didn't realize everything will only hit the bank on the Monday, which was the next month. (I should have known)

I also have a couple of cheques that didn't clear the bank until after new year.

How do I get them to show in my bank reconciliation? If I show the payment received April 1, they will show up in my Accounts Payable / receivable. If I enter in the information into historical data, it just immediately will go to the bank for previous year and disappear. 

Lois

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    Lois Lane said:
    How do I get them to show in my bank reconciliation? If I show the payment received April 1, they will show up in my Accounts Payable / receivable. If I enter in the information into historical data, it just immediately will go to the bank for previous year and disappear. 

    This situation of having outstanding cheques or deposits should be covered in the online help for setting up a company. 

    If correcting it at this stage means completely starting over, you could:

     - clear your reconciliation data (uncheck the box, exit, go back in, and check it off again) and start your reconciliation as of April 3, with the April 3 opening balance or

     - Subtract that outstanding cheque from the opening balance you use at setup, and make a note on the filed bank statement as to what happened.