# Journal Entries
**URL:** https://community.stessa.com/t/journal-entries/15472
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [November 23, 2024, 5:28pm UTC](https://community.stessa.com/t/journal-entries/15472 "2024-11-23T17:28:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@natendanabarber](https://community.stessa.com/u/natendanabarber)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2024, 5:28pm UTC](https://community.stessa.com/t/journal-entries/15472/1 "2024-11-23T17:28:08Z")
My bank was bought out by another bank, so I have new bank acounts connected to Stessa. Stessa is still showing balances for my old accounts which have been transferred to the new bank.
How do I create a journal entry that zeros out my original bank accounts that were transferred to the new accounts. Right now, the old accounts are showing up with balances that no longer exist. I want to keep the history, so I don’t want to delete those accounts, but I need the 2 original accounts to show a zero balance. How is this accomplished?
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### Author:  [@tlatuga](https://community.stessa.com/u/tlatuga)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2025, 11:19am UTC](https://community.stessa.com/t/journal-entries/15472/2 "2025-01-02T11:19:12Z")
@natendanabarber I am not aware of a way to do this. I was poking around and I do not see a way to add a transaction that is associated with an external account. Very frustrating indeed.
I generally recommend to my clients to not connect the financial accounts. I know, blasphemy, what’s the point?
If you ever have to export this data to a loan officer or CPA, you’ll need to export to Excel then delete the rows for those accounts, I suppose.
-Tom
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### Author:  [@natendanabarber](https://community.stessa.com/u/natendanabarber)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2025, 9:33pm UTC](https://community.stessa.com/t/journal-entries/15472/3 "2025-01-02T21:33:18Z")
Would this work:
1. Download all my transactions in Stessa.
2. Delete my external accounts.
3. Import my file from step 1.
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### Author:  [@tlatuga](https://community.stessa.com/u/tlatuga)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://community.stessa.com/t/journal-entries/15472/4 "2025-01-04T19:49:46Z")
@natendanabarber your theory and logic are sound. I would do it carefully. Become familiar with how to upload transactions in a csv file, first. Otherwise you’re creating a whole lot more work for yourself.
-Tom