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Find Duplicate Transactions

Identify potential duplicate transactions in your QuickBooks company and investigate them with AI.

Written by Simon • Your Aqqrue Sherpa

Duplicate transactions can creep into your books for a variety of reasons - manual entry, duplicate imports, or syncing issues between systems.

Aqqrue can scan your QuickBooks data and highlight transactions that look like potential duplicates, helping you review them much faster.

Find duplicates

Simply ask Aqqrue: Find duplicate transactions in the last 12 months.

Aqqrue analyzes your QuickBooks records and prepares a workpaper summarizing the potential duplicates it finds.

Review the results

Rather than making changes automatically, Aqqrue groups together transactions that appear suspicious based on factors such as:

  • Transaction type

  • Amount

  • Date

  • Payee or description

  • Other supporting context

Each group is presented as a potential duplicate for your review.

Investigate further

If you'd like to inspect any of the results, simply continue the conversation.

For example: Show me all of these transactions.

Aqqrue will display the underlying QuickBooks entries so you can compare them and decide whether they're true duplicates or simply similar-looking transactions.

In many cases, you'll quickly confirm that a transaction was entered twice. In others, you'll discover that the entries are legitimate but unusual enough to warrant a closer look.

Review before making changes

Aqqrue doesn't delete or modify transactions automatically.

Its job is to help you identify potential issues and bring them to your attention. You decide which transactions, if any, should be corrected.

A great review workflow

Finding duplicate transactions is a simple but effective review procedure to include in your month-end close or cleanup engagements.

Combined with Aqqrue's review Tasks, it helps you catch issues that are easy to miss during a manual review while significantly reducing the time spent investigating your books.

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