Hello,
I recently took over the accounting for a company and am having trouble figuring out the credit card payable accounts. The balances are not clearing after being paid and I think I know why. The credit card bills were done in 2 different ways: The bill would be done up in purchases to the credit card company with all of the accounts referenced according to the purchases on the credit card and paid from the bank account.
However, any purchases done using credit cards that had invoices (larger purchases) were also done up for the actual companies and paid using the credit card payment option. The problem I'm having now is that the credit card payables accounts in banking are showing large balances that haven't cleared. I'm guessing because those purchases done that were paid by credit card were never cleared out by doing the pay credit card bills option in payables.
I'm wondering if I can do a general journal entry to clear these amounts out rather than fixing each individual credit card invoice.
Thanks for any help!
Andrew