Hi Joan

The soft close prevents you from changing the account type.

However, if there weren't too many transactions posted to those accounts, you could unpost any batches that contain activity for those two accounts. Then once the accounts have zero balances and no activity, change the type and repost the batches.

You could also restore from backup, export all next year batches and import them into the restored data, if there aren't too many next year batches.

Steve