How to Print old reconciliation reports in quickbooks?

December 17, 2022

If you want to print your old reconciliation reports in quickbooks, then you are in right place. In this article, we are going to know how to find the old reconciliation report in quickbooks for improving your new reconciliation.

Here is a catch, quickbooks only saves your last 120 reconciliation reports. So, if you want to save the older reconciliation which is older than 120 then you might save it to Excel or you can import it into any database.

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How to print old reconciliation reports in quickbooks?

For quickbooks Desktop

First, go to the ‘Report’
Now, in the search box, type ‘Reconciliation Reports’, and then click to open
At last, choose the account and date range from the drop-down menu.

For quickbooks Online

Now, if you have quickbooks Online then you can do the same in the following ways-

The first step is to login into your quickbooks Online account
And then from ‘Dashboard’, select ‘Reports’
Then select ‘Reconciliation Reports’ from the ‘For My Account’ option
Now, select ‘Account’ and then ‘Report Period’
After that select ‘Statement Ending Date’
Under the ‘Action’ column, select ‘View Report’
At last, click on the print icon to print out the reconciliation report

Problems that you can face Printing old reconciliation reports in quickbooks

Not seeing the report

If you are having trouble with the view of the reconciliation report, means if you still follow all the steps which are mentioned above and still not be able to see the reconciliation reports or seeing an error instead, then the following process might work for you and resolve the issues.

Reports not available

For this, you can do

First make sure your quickbooks is up-to-date with the latest update, if not then update it immediately
Now, go to the ‘Reports’ menu then click on ‘Banking’, after that go to the ‘Previous Reconciliation’
Now click on ‘Transactions cleared plus any changes made to those transactions since the reconciliation’ option

Blank reports

For this, you can do

First, check if Adobe Acrobat is opening the reconciliation reports or not. And if not then follow the following steps
Open the Adobe Acrobat and select the ‘Edit menu
Click on ‘Internet’ from the ‘Preference’ option
Now, open the old reconciliation reports and they will open in Adobe Acrobat

Fixing Adobe Acrobat

If you are still facing problem opening the old reconciliation reports in Adobe Acrobat, then try to update it or maybe reinstall it

Damaged Old Reconciliation Report

The other scenario is that your old reconciliation report might be broken or corrupted. To find out you should open another old reconciliation report and if it opens and works perfectly then your other old reconciliation report is damaged. And for recover it, you have to recreate the reconciliation report

For this,

Go to the ‘Banking’ and then click on ‘Reconcile’
Next, in the window of ‘Begin Reconciliation’, select the applicable account and then click on ‘Undo Last Reconciliation’
A message of backup popup and if you want to create a backup you can create the backup and if you already have backup then simply ignore it and click on ‘Continue’
Once the ‘Undo Last Reconciliation has been completed then click on ‘OK’
And at last, reconcilable the transaction again

The cleared transaction shows as uncleared

Sometimes cleared transactions can show as undeclared and it happens because of the wrong entry of date in the ‘Begin Reconciliation’, most of the time entering the future date.

For rectifying this error, you can do the following-

Go to the ‘Banking’ menu, after that click on ‘Reconcile’
Next, in the window of ‘Begin Reconciliation’, select the applicable account and then click on ‘Undo Last Reconciliation’
A message of backup popup and if you want to create a backup you can create the backup and if you already have backup then simply ignore it and click on ‘Continue’
Once the ‘Undo Last Reconciliation has been completed then click on ‘OK’
And at last, reconcilable the transaction again

Beginning and Ending balances are incorrect

For rectifying the above error, you can think of this as

Beginning Balance + Deposits and Other Credits – Checks and Payments = Ending Balance

So for the above problem, we can do the following steps to rectify beginning and ending balances incorrectness

Go to the ‘Banking’ menu, after that click on ‘Reconcile’
Next, in the window of ‘Begin Reconciliation’, select the applicable account and then click on ‘Undo Last Reconciliation’
A message of backup popup and if you want to create a backup you can create the backup and if you already have backup then simply ignore it and click on ‘Continue’
Once the ‘Undo Last Reconciliation has been completed then click on ‘OK’
And at last, reconcilable the transaction again

After doing all the above steps, now delete all statement charges, interest adjustment, and balance adjustment from the register or journal.

Now, reconcile again with the correct date.

Old reconciliation report having incorrect statement date

You can correct the above by following below steps-

Go to the ‘Banking’ menu, after that click on ‘Reconcile’
Next, in the window of ‘Begin Reconciliation’, select the applicable account and then click on ‘Undo Last Reconciliation’
A message of backup popup and if you want to create a backup you can create the backup and if you already have backup then simply ignore it and click on ‘Continue’
Once the ‘Undo Last Reconciliation has been completed then click on ‘OK’
And at last, reconcilable the transaction again