First I will mention that our fiscal year end was October 31, 2007.

I have still have some outstanding entries from the previous fiscal year that were not cleared and are still on my bank rec.  Is there a way to clear these without messing up the books for the previous fiscal year?  I am assuming it would be best to give them to my accountant to clear off since our next year end is coming up.  Thoughts?

I also have a couple Journal entries that my account sent me to input and they are still sitting in my bank rec as not cleared.  Not sure what I am to do with them.

Examples

1. Bank/Chequing                                     xxxxx

    Retained earnings               xxxxx

2.  Cash on hand                                   xxx

     Bank/Chequing                   xxx

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It seems that the accountant did those two entries to correct a, probably, bank reconciliation discrepancy that surfaced at that time but without the actual amounts it is hard to determine.  Since those amounts were never actually cleared at the bank i.e. no deposit or cheque was made or written they could obviously never be reconciled.  In order to have them not show up in the reconciliation you will have to exclude them by resetting the bank reconciliation in the Add Prior Outstanding step.