Dear Charies_M,

Thank you for your reply.  It is clear I’m not doing a very good job at asking my question, or, possibly, there is no easy answer, or both.  I’m hoping for “3rd time’s a charm”.

Short story - At this point there are 96 uncleared and unreconciled transactions dated from 2015-2017.  These show up each time I open the reconciliation module in QBO to reconcile a new month.  Most, or all, of them are “unmatched” duplicates of previously reconciled transactions.  All of these transactions affected the business’ Balance Sheet or P&L for the year they were entered.  Meaning the business  overstated their liabilities, income and expenses for the years 2015, 2016 and 2017.

That said, they are a startup business and the dollar amounts are not significant.  As such, it does not make sense for us (accounting office) to go back and match all those items and, potentially, redo their taxes for those years.   The business owner and we agree we just want to get rid of those uncleared, unreconciled transactions that show up in the reconciliation module in QBO.  Is there a clean way to do that in the current year (2019)?  Or is the only recourse to delete the uncleared, unreconciled transactions, knowing it will change the Balance Sheet and P&L for each of the years 2015-2017?  

Thank you again for your assistance.  I truly appreciate it.