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HELP!!! SAGE Opening Bank balances


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I am hoping someone can help me, I have been given figures from an excel spreadsheet after i started posting items to the companies new Sage System, i started in Nov 09 and desperatly need to post the opening balances. i now have them and i have hit a snag with the bank balances.

I used the opening balance button on the bank account record and posted as the 31.10.09, but the other side of the journal has gone to the suspense. this may be a very bizarre question, where does the suspense figure get posted to zero that account???

I am at a loss, please can anyone help me?

Many thanks
Gambellini. no

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Hi Deborah,

sorry, I don't personally have a definitive answer for you but you could try this link to a SAGE line 50 tutorial that talks about opening balances and suspense accounts :

http://sageline50.blogspot.com/2007/07/opening-balances.html

There was also a post on here a few days ago that might help.

http://www.book-keepers.org.uk/index.spark?aBID=106474&p=3&topicID=33365540

Sorry that the replies not very good but in the absence of any others it's a starting point.

cheers,

Shaun.

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Hi Deborah,

I would think the easiest way would be to post the other opening balances (excluding the bank balance) through journal entries and you should then end up with a figure which is the remaining bank balance.

You then post the remaining balance to the suspense account and this should zero it out,

Carole

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Thanks Shaun & Carol smile.gif


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Hi Deborah,

If you have an B/F Trial Balance, then you should be able to post them without them hitting the suspense account.

Kris

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Kristian B


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Hi

Dont panic, as Sage does the double entry for you it will automatically throw everything into the 9998 nominal to balance out the t/b. Just enter another journal to clear down the suspense account & bank balance.

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