Sage 100 Inventory Trial Balance Report has no beginning balances

Resolution

  1. Go to Inventory Management, Reports, Trial Balance Write down the item number with a zero beginning balance that you believe should have one.
  2. Go to Inventory Management, Reports, Detail Inventory Transaction Report and pull up the same item to verify it had transactions.
  3. Go to Library Master, Utilities, Data File Display and Maintenance, Mas_XXX (Where XXX = Company Code), IMXXX (Where XXX = Company Code), IM_PeriodPostingHistory.m4t and look up the item code.
  4. Verify the item has a record that is correct. There should be  a period one record that has the beginning balance and the beginning balance dollar amount and then a record that records the transaction quantities only. This record is most likely missing.
  5. If this record is missing,
  6. Get everyone out of the system, Make a back up of your Data.
  7. Go to Inventory Management, Utilities, Recalculate Item History and run the utility.
  8. Now the file has been recreated and your trial balance should be correct.