Adjusting Retained Earnings Account

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In 2021, 2 member equity accounts were not classified correctly to close at year end.  As a result, the trial balance was off in 2022 but the accountant never caught this and corrected it when the income taxes were being done in 2022.

Now the current accountant wants me to adjust the retained earnings balance to the actual amount it should have been but I do not know how to make that adjustment.  Can this be done as of 12/31/22 so that my 2023 numbers will be correct?

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    Do you have 2022 open?  If yes, change the type of account, turn back to period one (1) and run Data Verification.   If it does not pop over, you could run some other utilities to update the accounts.  These can be dangerous if you don't know what you are doing.  You could contact Sage if you have an active support agreement with Sage Business Care or I could remote in and run them for you.  We do charge for our services.

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    Yes, just go into Help/Support Utilities/Integrity Check and run the Chart of Accounts/Journal in the Data Sync Test section.  If that doesn't resolve it, go back in and run the G/L Balances test in the top section and that will fix the RE.  I would run a back up before doing any utilities.  You can reach out directly if you need help fixing this.  [email protected] 

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    Thank you.  After a bit more "googling" and searching in this knowledge database, I did find the instructions on how to run the Integrity checks and after running all of them, my CPA said it did solve the issue and everything is now in balance for 2022 and forward.   I also did a Data Verification afterwards and came up with no errors so it seems all is now well!  Thank you both so much for offering suggestions.