What should you do if you generated the accounts payable aging report and its total does not agree with the accounts payable general ledger balance?

Look for the debit balances in aging report and general ledger. Further look for the completeness by matching the balances with the general ledger individually.

Initially you need to check opening balance of payables whether those are correct or not. After that you need to compare the payments for each of your payable made against.

i should rectify all  the errors.

By right, balance per ageing report should tie-up with accounts payable GL if you are generating from the same accounting system. However, if your ageing report is generated from a separate system and only being interfaced to your main system, then differences in balance might occur and needed to be reconciled. One classic example for the differences noted is that when there are payments made through cheques. Payment will be reflected in your ageing report immediately whereas in your GL, it will only be debited once the cheque is cleared by the bank. The same cheque should be reflected as a reconciling item in bank reconciliation as outstanding cheques.

In general subledger should match its controll account,but if not ,we should check the reasons. -We should check: -Begining account balance -EntriesOrher reported last month -If any sales invoices or cash receipts were posted to an account other than the A/R account -If any transaction has a different account listed in the A/R or A/P account field -Other applied credits that are on transactions may cause any mistakes

Thanks, subledger should match with its controll account, if not we need to do reconciliation & trace out the reason behind this difference & fixed it or adjusted, some ERP systems support in reconciliation & trace out the reason behind this differnce since in begest organization manaual reconciliation is time consuming.