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Bank balance and today's balance don’t match

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Summary

How to find the Balance and Today's Balance transactions when they don’t match in Sage Accounting.

Description

If the Balance and Today’s Balance in your bank account don’t match, this can happen if you:

  • Have transactions missing
  • Have duplicate transactions
  • Have future-dated transaction in the Sage activity of your bank account

Screenshot showcasing 'Bank balance' and 'Today's balance'.

Resolution

Find future dated transactions

  1. Go to Banking.
  2. Select the relevant bank account.
  3. Scroll down to Activity.
  4. Change the From date to today’s date.
  5. Change the To date to 31/12/2099.
  6. Select Search.

This will show any transactions that have a future date. You can now change the date on these transactions as required.


Check your bank feed

If you have a bank feed connected, you can process transactions into Sage Accounting.

Check your transactions in your bank account in real life and compare them to transactions in Accounting.

Find out how to process bank transactions from bank feeds or an imported file.


Reconcile your bank account

If you've completed the tasks above, you can reconcile your bank account. This is to see if any transactions are missing or if you've entered duplicates.

Find out how to reconcile your bank account.

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