Bank Reconcillation

[dlgtaylor]

I am new to PC and inherited a mess and do not have anyone in my church that is familiar with this system. I'm currently working on how to reconcile a bank statement. I accidently hit the "Done" button instead of "Postpone" and it is not balanced. Once a month is reconciled is there a way to go back and try to figure out why it is not balancing?

[NeilZ]

I am new to PC and inherited a mess and do not have anyone in my church that is familiar with this system. I'm currently working on how to reconcile a bank statement. I accidently hit the "Done" button instead of "Postpone" and it is not balanced. Once a month is reconciled is there a way to go back and try to figure out why it is not balancing?

Quick question, what version of PC are you using ?? The reason I ask is that in v11 you can run a report of the previous reconciliations to check it out, previous versions did not have this capability.

[dlgtaylor]

V11

[NeilZ]

V11

In that case, I would print out a few prior reconciliations to make sure that they were done properly. If they were, then you need to make sure that you've cleared every transaction that should be cleared. The only way to do that is go through the bank statement line by line and cross check to makes sure that the checks and deposits are in Powerchurch.

[Eden Whitehead]

I am new to PC and inherited a mess and do not have anyone in my church that is familiar with this system. I'm currently working on how to reconcile a bank statement. I accidently hit the "Done" button instead of "Postpone" and it is not balanced. Once a month is reconciled is there a way to go back and try to figure out why it is not balancing?

If your concern is that you hit the "Done" button inadvertently and want to go back in to continue reconciling a "Done" statement that wasn't truly done, the only thing I know to do is to restore a backup created before you initially started the statement reconciliation and start over. As a general practice, I run a backup of accounting files before reconciling bank statements for that very reason.

Hope this helps. If someone knows of a way to re-start a reconciliation, I'd sure like to know about it!
Eden