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I was reconciling our bank accounts for last year (3/31/2021), and accidentally selected the end of the month for THIS YEAR (3/31/2022). When I noticed this issue, I couldn't find anyway to undo the reconciliation or to change the date to the correct year.
I read through this link:
Undo or remove transactions from reconciliations in QuickBooks Online
And I read through some other links too, but the problem is that this particular month had ZERO transaction during that statement period, so there are no transactions to go change in the chart of accounts to cause it to change. I just need to change the end date that was entered for the bank statement so I can finish the rest of last year.
How do I fix this? Please don't tell me to talk to my accountant, we don't have one to handle this, I need to handle it.
Hi there, @ProfessionalChoiceSolutions.
I'm here to share some information on how you can change the reconciliation date.
The option to edit a reconciled period in QuickBooks Online (QBO), isn't possible.
The other option is by undoing the reconciled transactions and reconciling again. It can be done by accessing the register, and clicking the R status for transactions in that month until the field is blank.
Here's how:
In order for us to correct the reconciliation date, we'll need an accountant to do the process. Since you don't have one, you can find an accountant through this link: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/find-an-accountant/.
Lastly, I'm sharing with you these handy articles that can help you along the way:
Stay in touch with me if there's anything else I can help you with changing the reconciliation date. I'll be right here to guide you through the process.
I don't understand, if this is impossible to fix in Quickbooks, then it makes no sense that finding an accountant and giving them access to our Quickbooks account will mean that they can fix the problem in Quickbooks. If it's impossible for Quickbooks to fix, then how can an accountant using Quickbooks fix it when you just said that the issue can't be fixed through Quickbooks?
On the other hand, if an accountant can magically update or undo the reconciliation date in Quickbooks, then why can't I, as a superadmin do it to my own account? Do you give special privileges to an "accountant" account or something? And if so, then I can just make a new Quickbooks login and tell Quickbooks to make my secondary account an accountant so I can fix this obvious issue? Why would you restrict that correction from the business owner? I am a little confused...or I understand it correctly and am upset that you are purposely withholding some functionality from the owners who are paying to be able to do all our own accounting as if WE are the accountants for our businesses.
For what it's worth, the "accountant" we hired to do our taxes told us WE had to do the reconciliation ourselves before he could file our taxes, so the accountant told us to do the reconciling and you are telling us HE has to do the reconciling, which makes no sense that I'm not allowed to fix a simple and known error like the year so I can move on and reconcile the rest of the months last year. I'm a little frustrated you're withholding this functionality. Is there really nobody who can go into the back end and just update the date or something?
Hello, were you able to change this on your own without an accountant?
I did something very similar, but possibly worst.
I reconciled the end date as of 2020!!! 2 years back, and I don't want to have to un-reconcile all the way back.
Would you let me know what you had to do?
Thank you!
I made the same mistake. Putting April 2024 for one of the months and them May 2023 but the most unusual thing is that QB still let me reconcile the month of May 2023 with the correct year 2023 so I have one month April in the future in my reports May in the past. It does not make sense how QB would record this, and the balance is still not off. I am positive that it's a bug in their program that needs to be fixed as it is messing up the books for a lot of us. I don't have an accountant so I should be given access to fix my own books if it's just a simple date error.
First of all, the system should have caught the error and not let me reconcile the next month if the dates were off but seems like it failed to do this so the only other thing, I can think of is a BUG in the program that's needs to be fixed ASAP.
I am really frustrated, and I realized that it a common mistake that a lot of people made, and their generic answer is not solving the problem for anyone.
Hi there, HennaK.
Sharing your thoughts in this thread regarding the wrong date entered in the reconciliation is greatly appreciated.
I would suggest providing your suggestions to let the system detect the error (date) directly to our engineers. That way, users will no longer undo the previous reconciliation. They actively consider customer ideas when planning future updates and enhancements to QuickBooks.
Here's how:
In addition, check these links to guide you further on fixing issues when reconciling an account in QBO:
Keep me posted if you have other concerns aside from the reconciliation issue. I'll be glad to help.
I did the same.... entered a period for future, now my current bank recs are all showing the transactions I cleared in future date as being uncleared. Did you ever get this resolved or will it eventually fix itself when the future date passes?
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