Bank Rec - Yikes! What did I do?

I entered a Bank Rec adjustment for Merchant Fees relating to our credit card processing. The fees were deducted on the first for a particular amount. I entered the accrual as a reversing entry to accrue since they relate to the previous month. Then in Bank Rec I entered an adjustment tied to the GL and selected our cash account. Well that was wrong because it entered a debit and credit to the cash account. So under the "check deposit and adjustment entry" I thought I could just delete the row to delete the transaction but I was wrong. It remained off by that amount. I could not get the record back so I thought I could back out the entry by doing a negative adjustment in the bank rec but it didn't make a difference because it once again was debiting and crediting the cash account. Duh! My question is...my bank rec is right because I made a third entry to just bank rec, not tied to the GL so now its in balance which should have been my original entry...BUT...how do I get the Cash account to match? It's debit balance is higher by the amount of my transaction but all I see under the transaction detail is it debiting and crediting by the same amount.

Thanks for any help or tips anyone can offer!

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    If I followed this all correctly, I think what you wanted to do was this ...

    1) Enter your reversing entry in General Journal Entry
    2) Enter the merchant fees for the 1st of the month in Transaction Journal Entry, being sure to have the entry hit the bank rec

    I guess you can do step 2 directly in bank rec, although I have never done that myself. Wherever you make the posting, though, you need to choose the merchant fee expense account, not the cash account.

    If you're the boss, then I think what you need to do is reverse or delete the third entry you made that didn't hit the GL and then do another entry that does hit the GL, this time selecting the merchant fee expense account.

    If you're not the boss, then I think you should run this by your boss before continuing on.