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With one cheque I paid 3 invoices.  When my back statement came in I realized that I entered one of the three invoices incorrectly and therefore my system is off by $.01 because one invoice is off by $.01.  I tried to go back and adjust the entry to the invoice but I couldn't do that because a payment was made.  Next I tried to go back and adjust the cheque payment but I couldn't do that.  How do I correct this error?  The cheque amount was written correctly but one of my 3 invoices was incorrect.

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    You must be hand-writing the cheques?  Or is this a customer payment?  You have left out some information to give you a specifc answer but below is a general method to fix the issue.

    Post a general journal entry to update the bank and the other account that should have been updated originally.  I would use the same date as the date you posted the cheque originally or the last day of the month you are trying to reconcile your bank statement.  Use the source to indicate it is a correction (I use Corr consistantly to indicate it is a correction entry), and the Comment to indicate the original journal entry that was wrong and to indicate why.