Mea Culpa

Related Question - Suppose I decide to correct several of the earlier paychecks. The checks have all been involved in prior reconciliations, and are marked "Cleared". Now in this case, none of the changes affect the check amount or withholdings.

However, what, if anything, bad might happen if, say, I create a new check say 1865A to replace check 1865, then delete original check 1865, and rename

To answer both messages....Make all of the changes to the default profile and update each employee's profile while you are at it. Make sure you have the latest payroll tables. Then make a backup copy of your company file.

Try deleting one check and recreating it with the same date and check number. Check the bank account register to see that the replacement check is also cleared. If that worked, then redo the remaining 11 checks.

You don't need to create 1865A and rename it, etc.Just delete the first check and recreate it. Less steps involved.

You are lucky the changes were on the employER side.

As long as the net check amount hasn't changed, I see no problem with opening the paycheck & changing/adding the amounts in the Employer section. I believe you need to "unlock" the check so you can do this. If the check has already been reconciled, it's status will not change.

If you delete the check & re-enter it, it will show up as unreconciled in your next bank rec, the prior rec will not match, and your balance forward will be off by the check amount.

After some experimentation, that's just what I did. But I found I first had to delete the old paycheck before the revised SUI and L & I rates were picked up. each time I was warned about deleting a reconciled check, and said it's OK. After completion, I looked at the April reconciliation screen. The new checks are all there. I assume after April 30 when I do the normal reconciliation, I'll check them off as having cleared.

- PT

I may have misunderstood something along the way, but your last post seems incorrect.

If you can see the new cheques (that were presiously reconciled) on your April rec sheet, they'll pull April out of balance if you check them all becuase they won't be on the april bank statement you are reconciling.

I wonder if you go back and look at the past months that you reconciled, whether they'll be out of balance due to the cheques you deleted.

Assuming I'm correct; there would have to be a way that you can re- reconcile those months by simply adding those cheques back in.

"PT" wrote in news:f0318h$lh9$ snipped-for-privacy@nwnexus-news.nwnexus.com:

If the new checks are showing up in the April bank rec then something changed when you redid the checks. Double check the date, check number and amount of the new checks against the old ones. The program will substitute the new checks in the old bank recs and you are good to go. Run the Reconciliation Discrepancy report to see the details that QB feels were changed. Match those missing records and the bank recs should correct themselves. Right now your prior bank recs for those months impacted by the check corrections are incorrect.

But I'm not particularly concerned about the old reconciliations - they were accurate, and I saved the reports. I'm assuming (but won't know until I do the April 30 reconciliation), that if I mark the earlier checks as cleared on the 04/30/07 reconciliation screen, then assuming everything else for April is OK, the account should reconcile. Am I correct?

It should but you never know what QB will do.

I'm more concerned that something was not done correctly because these replacement transactions *should* have cleared automatically in the original months posted. That is why I suggested looking at the Reconciliation Discrpency report to see the exact details. Something is not working as expected.

I checked the Reconciliation Discrepancy Report, which showed the eight deleted checks. Then I ran a reconciliation for April 1 - 20, using the online bank statement. If I mark as cleared the eight checks (which now show up as uncleared) in the reconciliation screen, then do the normal reconciliation for all items to date, the report reconciles.

It shows that there is still some justice in the world.