I got behind in posting transactions to a bank account set up to accept and pay selected bills automatically. When I focused on the accounts again about two months later, I noticed I had permitted a transaction recording payment of a Credit Card account (CC)... which I hadn’t posted yet. (Call this Bank Entry 1 or BE-1). Today I posted that CC account and attempted to reconcile it, checking “hand written check” as a payment method. I anticipated a second entry in the bank account register; one from the automatic payment I permitted to download before I made the corresponding posting to the account plus the one I just made that split the charges into their respective categories. Now I’m left with two debits to the bank account for the same amount (call the 2nd entry BE-2).
I need to adjust these registers so that I end up with only one payment in the bank account; there’s only one (as there should be) in the CC account. If it’s relevant... the bank account entry I inadvertently permitted before posting the CC register came through with a payee named slightly different from that which I named it (understandable) and, of course, there is no category assignment to that bank entry.
How do I correct this please?
I need to adjust these registers so that I end up with only one payment in the bank account; there’s only one (as there should be) in the CC account. If it’s relevant... the bank account entry I inadvertently permitted before posting the CC register came through with a payee named slightly different from that which I named it (understandable) and, of course, there is no category assignment to that bank entry.
How do I correct this please?