Hi All. I'm not very well versed when it comes to accounting so I have a question about a scenario that my accounting manager asked me to help with. We had 3 journal entries (one from Jan, Feb & March) that were entered incorrectly. The manager decided it would be easier to delete these entries and re-enter them (back dated). The problem is that now, these new entries appear as if they need to be reconciled. All we want to do is mark them reconciled and move on. It’s about marking these new JE’s that hit the bank account as CLEARED (already reconciled) so they don’t show as an item pending reconciliation. This happened once before with a reconciling prior period entry and we figured it out back then, so I know there is a way. Thanks!

Are you using the Match Bank Data and Reconcile Account Statement Pages option for this account? I.e. the new bank reconciliation process they pushed everyone to a little while back. This probably isn't super helpful, but you used to be able to just tick a checkbox on the account register as long as you had an admin role before that process. Doesn't seem like that's still the case with the new bank matching reconciliation process. I know it is possible to turn off the match bank data by unchecking that on the account record and then you should be able to do that on the account register, but I'm unclear if that would have any other implications so I'd do some research/testing before proceeding along those lines.

@James Morris Thanks for your answer and sorry for getting back to you so late. We're still struggling with this. After checking the reconciliation rules, it shows that we don't do matching and thus there are no active rules to check-off, as we as in the bank account register, the "use match bank data" is not checked.

No worries. Well perfect then, you should just be able to go to the account register for the bank account and there's like a "clear" or "clr" checkbox you can check and that should do it. I believe you have to be in an administrator role though, just FYI.

@James Morris They are already marked as cleared, but still show up in the reconcile page. If we click on the reconcile checkbox, it applies the amount to the account. I don't see a way to override the reconcile box.

and you marked the Clr checkbox on the account register for those?

I don't know exactly how my manager set them, to be honest. Do you know if i push the "Mark All Cleared to Reconcile" button, will that also apply the amounts as i i checked the reconcile checkbox one at a time?

Checking the 'Mark All Cleared to Reconcile' is the same a checking the checkbox next to the three highlighted ones. I was just checking that on the account register (not in reconcile bank statement page) you had marked those as cleared (which it looks like you have, but good to double check). In here (the Reconcile Bank Statement page) you can tick those as reconciled in the current statement if that's not a problem for you/your org, or reopen prior reconciliations by selecting the correct statement date. If you need to see what dates prior reconciliations were done, click the History button.