How to check your books when the numbers look off
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Updated Aug 2026
RushFlow keeps a self-balancing double-entry ledger, so the books don’t “drift” on their own. When a number looks off, it’s usually a date range, an unreconciled bank item, or an un-synced sale — not a broken ledger.
Step by step
- Check the date rangeMake sure the report period is what you expect — a wrong range is the most common cause of a surprising figure.
- Reconcile the bankUnmatched bank items make cash look wrong. Run bank reconciliation.
- Check for un-synced salesA POS device with pending sales hasn’t posted them yet — sync it. See pending sync.
- Drill inUse report drill-downs to trace a figure to its transactions; the ledger balances, so the answer is in the detail.
Frequently asked questions
My accounts look wrong — is the ledger broken?
Almost never. RushFlow posts self-balancing double-entry automatically, so check the date range, unreconciled bank items and un-synced POS sales, and drill into the figure to trace it.
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