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Balance of the TB Summary does not equal the Balances of the TB Detail

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The detail does not balance to the Summary and it all started with the attached Journal entry that only posted 3 of the 4 accounts.  The account 0-000-2047-000 was affected.
 
How do I correct these in the SQL database?
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    BillurSamdancioglu Profile Picture
    19,854 Most Valuable Professional on at
    Hi,
     
    Can you please try to run, update balances.
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    Tom Garrett Profile Picture
    79 on at
    I do not have that feature (update balances) for GP2018 version 1695
     
    Any other suggestions??
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    Lisa at AonC.com Profile Picture
    958 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    Thank you, @Tom Garrett, for the helpful attachments!

    Since you have identified an actual journal entry that is out of balance, I think you may need to back out that entry.

    I am curious, though, how this entry may have posted.  Do you possibly have an add-in product that is bringing in PO invoices that may have caused this?

    Before voiding the entry, I would do a little more digging to make certain that the GL is truly out of balance.  Do you have access/comfort with SQL Queries?  If so, you can check the data in the GL20000 table to confirm it is in balance.  (I'm assuming JE 1036870 dated 01/31/2025 is in a current open fiscal year.)

    I would also reconcile the financial year just to make certain the Detail and Summary information for the year is in balance.  (Microsoft Dynamics GP > Tools > Utilities > Financial > Reconcile and then reconcile the Open Year that includes 01/31/2025.

    If you don't have access/comfort with SQL, you can use SmartList > Financial > Account Transactions to export the transactions to Excel and sum the Debit Amount and Credit Amount columns.  (Ideally you would do this for the whole fiscal year but that can be difficult if it is a large database.  If that is the case, try exporting just January 2025 period, or even just 01/31/2025, to see if there truly is an out of balance.)

    If you do need to back out the out-of-balance entry, here is a link from Crestwood on the steps to take.  Note:  I have not followed these steps before and I don't know if they are accurate and/or will work with an out of balance entry but the steps are logical and take advantage of core GP functionality:

    Dynamics GP: Correcting Journal Entries - Crestwood Associates

    [The last time I ran into an out of balance entry, I resolved it via SQL.  The back-out GP functionality wasn't an option back in those days.  🙂]

    If you back out the entry and then re-post it, you may want to reconcile the financial year one more time just to make sure everything still looks good.
  • BJ-09051414-0 Profile Picture
    348 on at
    Hey Tom,
     
    The Detail version of the reports is going to do a calculation of the totals based on what is returned on the report.
     
    The summary version is going to pull the summarized amounts for the account from the Summary Table(s).
    Since the Detail is doing a calculation to get the totals, the Detail is likely correct based on the data and the summary version is likely incorrect because the summary value is stored in a table and is updated as you post transactions.
     
    With the reports provided, your Summary version has to be incorrect because the Detail is a calculation and based on the detail and the transactions.
     
    Lisa's recommendation of using the Backout Process will not work. GP will not allow an unbalanced entry in GP. The only way to fix an unbalanced entry is to delete it and recreate or insert the missing record(s).
     
    The summary version of the report is showing multiple accounts. 
     
    Suggestions going forward. 
     
    1. Assuming the Summary and Detail Reports are using the same date range, we know the summary amounts are wrong. Reconcile will correct this but before we run Reconcile, we should likely correct the bad entry.
    2. First, use the Drill Back from the Journal Entry window to drill back to the PO Invoice that created this to allow you to verify the distributions.
      1. Verify if the distributions are correct on the PO Invoice and note what they ware.
        1. If the PO side is bad, then you need to check the Account Payables Invoices to make sure Invoice on the Payables is not wrong to and if so, correct this to.
        2. For AP, the distributions do not really matter after they have been posted. As long as the Document Amount is correct on the AP Invoice, the distributions really do not matter.
    3. Assuming the PO Distributions are correct, then you will need to delete the Journal Entry out of SQL and manually recreate it with the correct distributions.
      1. If you need assistance with this, I suggest reaching out to your Partner.
      2. The entry will be in the GL20000 if in open or GL30000 in history depending on where the 2025 years is in your environment.
      3. Once deleted, manually recreate it in the General Entry window. (No drill backs to the po will be present so use the reference field to note the PO this was for).
    4. Once the GL Entry is recreated, you will need to Run Reconcile to update the Summary Amounts.
      1. I do not suggest running this in live as we do not know what it will do or if there is further damaged data. 
      2. There is no option to pick what account it gets run against so you will need to spot check each accounts balances do not change.
      3. Reconcile will update the summary amounts based on the detail records.
    5. That should solve the problem. 
    I hope this helps!
     
    Thank you!

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