Delete an initial open item

The first time you reconcile an account in Sage Intacct you enter items that were open from the last reconciliation in the previous system. After doing a couple of subsequent reconciliations, you might decide that you need to remove one or more of these initial open items.

You have two options to remove initial open items.

Option 1: Reopen a reconciliation and delete an initial open item

If an initial open item was mistakenly entered and never should have been included, reopen all the reconciliations to go back to the beginning and delete the item.

1. Reopen the previous reconciliation.

   1. Go to Cash Management > All > Reconciliation > View reconciliation histories.

   2. Find the required reconciliation and select Reopen.

2. After all the reconciliations for the account have been reopened, the Initial open items link appears.
3. Select Initial open items, find the initial open item to remove and select Delete.
4. Re-reconcile the account.

Option 2: Create a journal entry to zero out an initial open item

Maybe one of your initial open items was a cheque that a supplier has never cashed, and you want to void the cheque.

To remove an old, uncashed cheque:

1. Add a journal entry to reverse the cheque.

   1. Go to General Ledger > All > and select Add (circle) next to Journal entries.

   2. Enter the appropriate information, then select Submit or Post, depending on your GL configuration.
2. Return to the current bank reconciliation and clear the old cheque and new journal entry.

   1. Go to Cash Management > All > Reconciliation > Bank.

   2. Enter account information and select Continue.
   3. Select the old cheque and the newly created journal entry to zero them out and remove them from your outstanding list of items.