Incorrect Balances in Liability Accounts

[lakesidechurch]

As mentioned in previous posts, I am new to PC+ and my bookkeeping position at a church.

Unfortunately, I am having to sort through a lot of things that were done incorrectly and figure out how to fix them in PC+.

My latest discovery is I have balances in Payroll Liability accounts that should not be there.

Payroll was done through Quickbooks January - April of 2008. Then that information was re-entered into PC+. Unfortunately, I don't think it was done correctly.

Payments for payroll liabilities were posted to "Payroll Liability Accounts". The problem is, the actual liabilities were never posted to these accounts first.

So there are numerous debits to the Payroll Liability accounts at the beginning of the year, but no credits to increase the liability before decreasing it with a payment.

So how can I get these liability accounts back to 0 where they should be?

Do I need to go back and enter the withholdings or "credits" that should have been entered each month?

Or can I just do one big adjusting entry to bring these accounts back to zero?

Thanks!

Mindy

[Matt]

Were the paychecks for January to April of 2008 entered into PC+? If so, what accounts were the witholdings credited to?