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How to Locate Missing Transactions in QuickBooks Desktop

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Arthur White
How to Locate Missing Transactions in QuickBooks Desktop

Ever happened that you mistakenly deleted or altered some transactions while working in QuickBooks? To businesses where meeting deadlines, earning credibility is of the utmost importance, it could cost huge if there is some mishandling with the financial information.

 

And imagine if you own an accounting firm and you lose data, it will hamper your business severely. QuickBooks is a great help to deal with those nerve-racking numbers.

 

So if you ever lose or miss out any transactions, don’t worry! Not a thing to freak out anymore. We bring you simple, easy steps to handle and locate your missing transactions as mentioned below:

 

Check audit report: You need to revisit your audit report and take note of any unusual transaction that may seem to occur. Now to open this, you should go to the report menu, then select accounting/Taxes and finally, you can find the audit trail. These could be adjusted, customized as per your requirements. So this could help you find your omitted or QuickBooks missing transactions, or at least remind you of the possible error you would have made.

 

Find your business file: The second option with you is to search the business file which you are trying to search. This will enable you to look for the information desired. This becomes an easy task as you just have to log in to your business or company file and press F2 so that the desired window opens up. This is likely to give you an idea of where you would have possibly omitted or altered the data.

 

Try getting the condense attribute: Next option to retrieve the missing data is by looking for the condense option. As the files contain a huge amount of data with previous sheets in the store, it is likely that you would want just the required ones to stay on the top. This is enabled by the ‘condense’ feature of QuickBooks. So the other way round is also possible that if you look for the condensed material, the omitted or altered data is highlighted in bold so that your mistakes appear right in front of you. Probably you can recall and get the hang of things.

 

Help yourself means to take that extra effort and extra time and enter the numbers manually. Apart from these issues, there could be others as well.

 

  • They may be arising due to the upgraded version. When the app moves to a new version, the data may be at risk. So, you could install the new version parallel to the old one so that you don’t miss out.
  • It is likely that in case of the network error, or reinstall failure, the data is at risk. So, it is important that your data is always on a backup so that you don’t fret at that shocking moment.
  • There are cases of your printer not working. A series of step would help- close QuickBooks, search and look for the file qbprint.qbp and rename it to qbprint.qbp.old, and further restarting should solve this issue.
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