To correct balances for a misclassified account:
1. Reopen the last period of your prior fiscal year, if it is closed.
2. Create a journal entry that brings the misclassified account balance to zero for the
last day of the last period of your prior fiscal year. Use a temporary account such
as Suspense for the offsetting amount.
Note: If you have multiple currencies in the account balance, create
journal entries to zero out entries in your functional currency and to
zero out entries for each foreign currency.
3. Post the journal entry on the last day of the last period of your prior fiscal year.
4. Verify that the misclassified account balance is zero by reviewing account balances
online or in reports.
5. Correct the account type of the misclassified account by changing the segment
value qualifiers.
6. Ask your System Administrator to correct the account type of all accounts
referencing the misclassified account by updating the ACCOUNT_TYPE column in
the GL_CODE_COMBINATIONS table using SQL*Plus.
7. Restore the misclassified account balance by reversing the journal entry you posted
in Step 3, page 8-14 above. Reverse the journal entry into the last day of the same
period that it was originally posted.
8. Post the reversing journal entry.
Using the previous example, the Cash account type is now Asset so when you post
the reversing journal entry, General Ledger rolls forward your Cash and Retained
Earnings balances into the first period of the new fiscal year.
9. Review the corrected account balances online or in reports.