{"id":17183,"date":"2026-06-29T15:55:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T12:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.lt\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=17183"},"modified":"2026-07-10T13:27:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T10:27:52","slug":"balance-unbalanced","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.lt\/en\/vartotojo-vadovai\/balance-unbalanced\/","title":{"rendered":"Balance unbalanced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you receive a message indicating that the Balance Sheet is out of balance, you need to identify the cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Possible solutions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Automatic transactions<\/strong> \u2013 Did you start entering accounting data without setting the <strong>Automatic transactions Start Date<\/strong>? For example, if you started using SimplBooks this year but entered accounting data from the previous financial year, make sure the automatic transactions start date reflects this. Go to <strong>Settings \u2192 Environment Settings \u2192 General Settings<\/strong>. On the right side, find the <strong>Accounting Settings<\/strong> section and the field <strong>Automatic transactions starting from<\/strong>. Enter the date from which you entered the opening balances (it may also be one day later). Also if no automatic entries (D\/K) are generated when you post an invoice, also check to see if the &#8220;Automatic Transactions Starting From&#8221; date is set correctly. Automatic accounting entries are generated starting from the date entered in this field.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Check account 9999 (temporary\/interim\/Clearing Account).<\/strong> This account should always have a zero balance at the end of the day. If there is a balance in this account, review the related transactions and make the necessary corrections. Go to <strong>Accounting \u2192 General Ledger<\/strong> and filter by account and period.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Have you added new accounts to the Chart of Accounts?<\/strong> If so, make sure they have also been assigned to the <strong>Balance Sheet<\/strong> or <strong>Profit and Loss Statement<\/strong>. Remember:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Accounts beginning with <strong>1, 2, 3, or 4<\/strong> belong to the <strong>Balance Sheet<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Accounts beginning with <strong>5 or higher<\/strong> belong to the <strong>Profit and Loss Statement<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You can verify this by going to <strong>Accounting \u2192 Accounts<\/strong>, filtering for the account you added, and checking on the right-hand side whether it is linked to the correct report. More information can be <a href=\"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.lt\/en\/vartotojo-vadovai\/saskaitos\/\">found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Have you distributed the current year&#8217;s profit?<\/strong> When allocating the current year&#8217;s profit, <strong>do not use the Current Year&#8217;s Retained Earnings account<\/strong> in manual journal entries. Instead, use the <strong>Previous Year&#8217;s Retained Earnings<\/strong> account. In this case, the previous year&#8217;s retained earnings may appear as a negative amount, but the overall <strong>Retained Earnings<\/strong> balance will remain correct.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Were the opening balances imported from another accounting system?<\/strong> Check whether the <strong>Current Year&#8217;s Profit (Loss)<\/strong> account was included in the imported opening balances. The balance of this account is calculated automatically based on income and expense accounts, so you must <strong>not<\/strong> enter an opening balance manually. For more information, see the guide <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.lt\/en\/vartotojo-vadovai\/entering-initial-balances\/\">Entering Opening Balances \u2013 Existing Company<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Identify when the Balance report first became unbalanced.<\/strong> When viewing the <strong>Balance Sheet<\/strong> report, filter the report month by month. For example, review the period from <strong>January 1 to February 28<\/strong>, then <strong>January 1 to March 31<\/strong>, and so on. This will help you determine in which month the imbalance first appeared, making it much easier to locate the cause.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any questions, please contact us at <a href=\"mailto:support@simplbooks.lt\"><strong>support@simplbooks.lt<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht_kb_category":[175,584,588,181],"ht_kb_tag":[],"class_list":["post-17183","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-accounting","ht_kb_category-apskaitos-duomenu-tikrinimas","ht_kb_category-buhalterines-saskaitos-d-k-en","ht_kb_category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/17183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/17183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17306,"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/17183\/revisions\/17306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_category?post=17183"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_tag?post=17183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}