I reconeilled the bank account. All balanced, finished and printed report. Now see that the end date on the month I was doing is incorrect. How can I correct it?

Hi karen-watson,

I know that dates can make a difference when it comes to the reporting in your books in general and the same is true with reconciliations. I can go over how to correct your reconciliation dates in QuickBooks Online so that you know how you can move forward with correcting this.

Undoing a reconciliation is what you can do to make sure that your reconciliation reports have the correct dates and transactions in them. How you can go about undoing the reconciliation and the impact it has on your books will make a difference, but I can go over both options with you. Luckily, both give you the opportunity to re-reconcile the same transactions with the correct information.

The first way to undo a reconciliation is to have an accountant user do it for you. This removes the transactions from the reconciliation and removes the original report from your reconciliation history. Accountant users have a variety of tools for helping their clients, and the Undo reconciliation feature is one of them. If you already have an accountant you're working with, you can ask them to undo it for you. If they're not sure how, share this article with them: Undo a client’s reconciliation in QuickBooks Online Accountant.

The second way to undo a reconciliation is to manually change the status of your transactions in your account register using the steps here: Undo or remove transactions from reconciliations in QuickBooks Online. As the title suggests, this process removes the transactions from a reconciliation, which gives you the chance to re-reconcile them, however, it doesn't remove the original reconciliation report like the accountant's feature does. So in this case, you'd have two reconciliation reports for the same timeframe, but you can ignore the original.

Even if you're undoing the reconciliation yourself, it's always best to check with an accountant to make sure that you're not inadvertently removing transactions that shouldn't be touched. To add your accountant as a user or to find an accountant if you don't have one, check out the My Accountant tab. There, you can invite your accountant or use the Find a pro to help button to research QuickBooks-trained accountants near you.

I hope this has helped. Feel free to ask more questions if you have them. :)