Assistance fixing reconciliation issue

William Smith Jr

When reconciling my most recent checking account statement, I took a quick look at reconciliation history and saw a $20 discrepancy from my February statement. I'm not really sure what happened there but when I tried to re-reconcile the statement, the $20 check that is the source of the discrepancy does not appear in the list of transactions I can check off. I spent some time trying to figure this out but have not had any luck. Is there something I'm missing here and/or can do so this transaction shows up as an eligible one within the statement period?

Thanks!

Bill

jacobs

I thought this was a downloaded transaction, which is why I asked about the posted date.

The transaction is available in January because it was dated in January. But if it wasn't marked as reconciled in January, it should then be in the list of transactions when you reconcile February — and you're saying it isn't. I can't understand that; it should be the first transaction at the top of the list of transactions through February 28.

In any case, since this appears to be a one-off problem, I have a couple suggestions to get this resolved.

1) You could try deleting and re-entering the same transaction, using the same 1/21 transaction date. Then open your February reconciliation and see if it's there.

2) Re-reconcile one of the months -- you can choose which one -- and check off this transaction. You can do it in April, or March, or even January. Depending which month, you may need to adjust the ending balance (click the little pencil next to the ending balance). For instance, you could mark this cleared in January, but you'd need to adjust the ending balance down by $20 because the actual bank balance doesn't have this transaction cleared in January. January should then be reconciled, and then your February and March should not show a discrepancy.