I have some cheques I sent to individuals years ago that were never cashed. They still always come up in my bank reconciliation. How can I get rid of them, and after doing, that my bank account needs to read correct after? And also not change my old income and expense numbers. Thx.
Ideally, we'd catch this kind of thing soon enough to get rid of those items by reversing ach one as they never cleared. The problem with that is that it’s going to affect previous year’s income and expense and we don’t want to do that. Which means you’re going to need to manually adjust the bank.
Check off those items in your bank reconciliation screen and that will tell you whether the bank is over or short. Once you know that then you can enter a withdrawal or deposit to correct the bank and you can choose income or expense, whichever is appropriate to write off that adjustment to.