OH thank you for your response! For the clarification... Some of the checks that cleared the bank and are on my bank statement... are not on my QBO journal in the "reconciliation list" .... I thought somehow they were not "entered" into QBO... so I searched 'expenses" and found the "bill" but it was not showing as a paid bill... it still has an open balance. Normally when I create a bill ... then write a check for it.. the bill is marked paid. On several of these it did not happen.. the beginning and ending balance for that period was correct... It shows that I am perfectly reconciled... but there are still a number of checks that cleared the bank that were not showing on my side...that is when I discovered that the bill didn't get marked paid when the checks were written. I tried to "mark as paid" to see if they would then show up in my reconciliation list... but there is no option to mark it paid... and I am confused about how it can balance when there are items that are leftover that are not "accounted for' from the bank?? If my bills are not marked paid after the check is written.. it should not balance? I am so new to this ... I have never kept books before.. the terminology is probably all wrong... I am so sorry... Our bookkeeper quit and this job landed on me by necessitiy ... so... any help is tremendously appreciated.
