Mysterious Retained Earnings account

Other than the obvious GL table, where else would one assign account numbers? My GL table DOES NOT have my Quickbooks retained earnings account number ANYWHERE in it; however, RMS continues to post to that account. WHY WHY WHY? Where could it be? Jennifer

I've done all that. RMS didn't write to Retained Earnings until I upgraded from 1.2 to 1.3 and added HQ. I didn't find out that it caused a problem until I had to upgrade from QB 2004 to QB 2007. I can post a report of my GL table account assignments, and you will NOT see any reference to the Retained Earnings account. This is an RMS issue - I post the closed batch to an .iif file for later import, and the first line is always the Retained Earnings account:

TRNS,121,GENERAL JOURNAL,08/08/07,3900,0.0,121,POS at Reg 1

Before the upgrade, this line was posted to Cost of Good Sold. Why the change?

Jennifer

Jeff @ Check Po> Jennifer,

.

No offense, but what is the difference? It's always zero dollars. it's just an informational line so you can tie the journal entry back to the batch number.

.

Ah, but you don't understand! Now I have to EDIT EVERY BATCH with notepad that gets imported into quickbooks because QB 7 doesn't work with RMS 2.0 because of this awful glitch. Microsoft says it is a bug and that "they are working on it." They will send me a fix "as soon as one is ready". We all know what that means. Also, this RE entry causes a problem when I go back to look at journal entries. It is NOT an innocuous problem. Jennifer

Jas> No offense, but what is the difference? It's always zero dollars. it's just

.

I just checked this problem out, and it appears that as long as you have the

3900 account number in the Chart of Accounts, it just enters a zero dollar journal entry in that account. I still do not understand why this is not working for you. just assign 3900 to an account in QB 2007.

.

Another thought. If you use the direct integration using QB 2003 as your accounting software option instead of QB file, you won't have to import anything into QB and there is no informational line posted to 3900 or any account for that matter. Very simple to do and works with all versions of QB(I'm using QB 2007 soon to be 2008 because of payroll). Craig

.

.

I would LOVE to - except for a few minor issues:

1. I'm running HQ because I have multiple stores.
2. HQ doesn't support direct import. Jennifer

Craig wrote:

.

Since Intuit created the issue you will have to work with them to get it resolved. Open a support incident with them. Just a thought, do you update QB regularly? They may have already fixed your issue. I would like to add, in case anyone cares, I upgraded to QB 2008 yesterday and the direct integration still works. Craig

.