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How to Reconcile Account Payable with GL trial balance

  Kindly run the Accounts Payable Trial Balance for a particular period which you have already
closed (or) intend to close in both AP and GL.

 Now Run General Ledger Trial Balance Report for same period.

 Then compare both trial balance report APTB & GLTB for all accounts. 
 Submit Create Accounting program from Payable responsibility with proper end date and Final
and Post Mode parameter value as 'Yes'.
 After completing create accounting report again compare APTB and GLTB report.
 If there is still any difference then submit the GL Account Analysis Report (180 char)" report,
which will help to find whether any other source journals are posted to these liability accounts 
 List out all other source journal amounts (credit less debit) and determine the net value (other
than Payables source amounts) to compare with APTB.
 If there is still a difference between APTB and GLTB after deducting other source journals, then
submit the "Account Analysis Report" in Payables for the particular period and liability account code
combination. This will help to get detailed transaction level data.
 Export the output into excel with column sorting options and proceed to reconcile at transaction
level to find out the difference between GL trial Balance and AP Trial Balance.
 Then analyze the transaction accounting entries. If any corruption or partial accounting exist.

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