Hi I appreciate your help and explanation, JaeAnnC
However, my experience is not matching yours.
Running the reports both in Accrual (which I have done from the beginning) does not solve the problem. I checked the dates to make sure I am doing parallel reports in QBO and my "new" QBD files.
When I go into numerous balance sheet accounts - e.g. asset accounts, accumulated depreciation, etc. - it is clear that transactions that are in QBO are missing from QBD, which makes the balances not match.
It would have been nice if I could have been able to choose which dates to migrate to QBD bc I would have asked for only the dates since we originally uploaded to QBO, which was less than 2 yrs ago. (My client still has his QBD files from that time.)
My next idea, for anyone who is interested, is to get a trial of Advanced QBO and see if I can get and keep a backup from that.
Remember, this is all about having an archive of data if my client ever gets audited.
Very frustrating.
thanks.
