Orphaned Closing Account Detected

[RLM]

I am in the process of making numerous account number changes in a test instance from a backup copy of the last original backup before making those changes in my working copy of Power Church. When I went to Utilities > Reindex I received an Orphaned Closing Account Detected error message. I have never seen this error message before. So I restored that same backup file to the test instance before I had made any changes and manually reindexed that untouched file and received the same message. I have been using PC+ for years and have never encountered this error.

How do I go about troubleshooting this?

[JohnDMeyers]

I'm guessing that you have one of three things.

1) an income or expense account that has an unspecified closing account
2) an income or expense account that has a closing account in the wrong Fund
3) you have a closing account that really isn't an equity account

Looking for omissions can be tricky.

I would go into Fund Accounting / Setup / Maintain Chart of Accounts and begin in the Income section (4000).

Check every account detail tab one-by-one to see what equity account each income and expense account closes-to. I'm guessing there is either one that is blank, or one that points to the wrong Fund, or one that isn't closing to an equity account.

By wrong Fund, I mean that you have an account in Fund 01 that closes to Fund 02 equity, for example.

Case #3 would be that you mistakingly typed in an income account (or some other incorrect account) in the closes-to field instead of an equity account.