Summary
Balances didn't clear out of accounts after closing the year in Sage 50 Accounting.
Description
- Non-close type accounts have closed to retained earnings at year end
- Close-type accounts haven’t closed to retained earnings at year end
- Balance Sheet has wrong account balance after closing year
- The account didn’t close after closing the year
Cause
Assigned the wrong account type to an account..
Resolution
NOTE: The program closes out balances with the account types of Income, Expenses, Cost of Sales, and Equity-Gets Closed into the Retained Earnings Account. The most common cause for the incorrect account closing is due to assigning the wrong account type to a GL Account.
- Select Tasks, System, and then click Change Accounting Period.
- Select Period 01, and then click OK.
- Select Maintain, and then select Chart of Accounts.
- Select the account that has the wrong Account Type.
- Change Account Type to the correct type.
- Click Save.
- Repeat steps 4 through 6 for each account that requires a change.
- Run the Chart of Accounts Journal Synchronization test.
- Verify your account balances are correct.