voiding a check from previous year

[lthayer]

I started using v9 at the beginning of this year. There were some checks that hadn't cleared when we started so we entered all of those. Now two of those checks have still not cleared and I want to void and rewrite them. I tried voiding by going to void check and enter the number but it says it can't find that check, yet I can see it on my bank reconciliation as not cleared. I don't know if it's because they are from 2005 or because they were part of the setup of the system. Am I missing something, do I have to do it differently. Thanks in advance for the help.

[wms7328]

A quick way to check is to go to fund accounting reports and run the check register report, check the button that says unreconcilled and enter the dates that cover these checks. It should show up in the report. Make sure the check number doesn't have a blank space at beginning or someplace in the number.

If that doesn't work then you could manually enter a transaction that reverses the check, using the same number followed by -VOID. That should show up in the reconcilation report and then you could clear that entry.

[Jeff]

Were these checks entered in the accouting setup assistant? If so they don't really exist in the system, but are held in a special place to aid in reconcilling your bank account. That is why the sytem can't reverse them. To reverse these checks entered in the accounting setup assistant, you would debit your bank account and credit your equity account.

You would go directly against they equity account in this case because these checks happened before you started using PC+.