This category documents reconciliation integrity failures observed during diagnostic reviews, where accounts technically reconcile while underlying discrepancies remain unresolved.
Posts in this category examine patterns such as discrepancies carried forward, adjustments used to force agreement, duplicated or omitted transactions, and reconciliation reports that create false confidence without verifying reality.
When reconciliation becomes a box-checking exercise instead of a verification step, reports can appear accurate while drifting further from truth. These failures are often invisible until decision-making is already compromised.
Each post isolates a specific reconciliation failure pattern to show how reconciliation must prove reality, not just agreement, before reporting or decision-making can be trusted.
Reconciliation When Completion Replaced Confirmation Reconciliations didn’t disappear in this file. They continued to be run, marked complete, and closed each period. What changed was what reconciliation meant. This breakdown is one piece of a larger failure pattern explored in the full cleanup case study . Reconciliations didn’t disappear in…
Bank Reconciliations Reconciled Does Not Mean Correct Reconciliation is often treated as a finish line. In reality, it is a control. When that distinction is lost, files can be reconciled and still completely wrong. Reconciliation is a verification process. It answers one question only: does the activity in the file…
Incorrect or unreconciled credit card activity in QuickBooks Online leads to distorted balances and unreliable reports. Learn how to review, correct, and reconcile your credit card transactions accurately.
Bank reconciliation problems in QuickBooks Online come from structural issues like unmatched deposits, old checks, and missing integrations. Learn how to correct the causes and rebuild accurate financials.