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steveatliftinghands
Level 2

Reimbursing employee from expenses made months ago

Hello, an employee was late reporting business expenses he incurred with a personal card.  (I don't use QBO for employee payroll or reimbursements.)  The expense dates were between 5 and 6 months ago.  I reimbursed him the full amount from our bank this month.  Then in the "Banking" tab, I went to that bank and clicked "upload from file" and uploaded a CSV with all his transactions with the dates, amounts, and memos.  I then categorized these and attached receipts.  

 

When I reconciled the month, I included these previous expenses (going back 6 months even though it was February's reconciliation) which added up to equal the reimbursement.  So everything balances with the reconciliations.  I just wonder how this affects the bank balances in quickbooks and payable amounts.  Is this the correct way to do this?  Is there a better way?  It seems wonky.  

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Jovychris_A
Moderator

Reimbursing employee from expenses made months ago

Thanks for sharing with us, @steveatliftinghands. You've done a great job adding transactions by uploading CSV files from the previous between the 5th and 6th months ago.

 

You may consider creating a check to reimburse your employee for this month for the business expenses he incurred with a personal card.

 

In your case, recording all the transactions with the correct dates and amount help balance your books, especially when you confirm and match these entries with your bank statement. With this, I believe you're making an error-free reconciliation in QuickBooks.

 

However, since you're unsure if these records are accurate, I recommend consulting your accountant to review your books. They're the ones who know best in terms of accounting and how to deal with those records, if you're accounting them right or not for the prior months.

 

Lastly, you can read through these articles to help you learn more about managing your transactions in QuickBooks:

 

Let me know if you have more expense transactions to keep track of. I'm always here to help you record them in QuickBooks. Stay safe, and more power to your business!

steveatliftinghands
Level 2

Reimbursing employee from expenses made months ago

Is another solution to make journal entries for the individual payments back then?  Debit the expense, credit the payable account.  Then when the reimbursement goes through the bank, I categorize it to the payable account?

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