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I m trying to do a year but every time i try it tells me that i have one or two checks out standing from two years ago how do I rectify this so it does not foll up my bank acc can u help me
This message pops up for me all the time too and isn't necessarily something that we need to be concerned about. If you proceed then it will offer to print a report for you containing all of the "stale-dated" items. Review the report and check to see if there are transactions listed that occur on the main bank account you reconcile every month. If not then just print the report and put it in your paper files for reconciliations.
If you're like me and most other people, you reconcile your main operating account every month, but not any others. This practice is "acceptable" because virtually everything moves through that account in one way or another eventually. Technically if we wanted to be absolutely sure we didn't miss anything we would be doing formal reconciliations on savings accounts, AgriInvest accounts, lines of credit, credit cards, etc. If you're like me, you just don't have the kind of time that requires. Because we don't reconcile all of those other accounts they will build up "stale-dated" transactions in the Bank Reconciliation screen and the year-end will only carry those forward for 2 years before wanting to purge them from the database. Since we don't reconcile those accounts anyway, this purge has no affect on our use of the software or our ability to reconcile in the new year.
If the transactions are showing on the main bank account that you do reconcile every month, give us a quick call so that we can help you clean those up.
Great question, I know a lot of other users have the same concerns as you expressed.