Conversion File Help

Hi everyone,
I have run into a problem when I try to upload data using transformation and conversion file. New accounts were added and mapped to BPC accounts in one of my conversion files, However when I ran data validation on the conversion file I get the following two errors only for the new accounts added (the rest of the records are accepted):
1. Dimension: FLOW member: CYA_YTD_151150_COS is invalid or is a calculated member
2. Dimension: ACCOUNT member: CYA_YTD_151550_COS is invalid or is a calculated member
It is only for the new accounts I mapped and I am 100% sure the BPC accounts I have mapped to are not calculated members. I am also 100% sure the accounts from the flat data file (e.g. CYA_YTD_151150_COS) are 100% the same. Anyone familiar with this issue?
Thanks!

What I mean when I say I am creating new members in the conversion file is that I am adding new rows to it (mapping accounts from the flat file to BPC) The accounts that I am mapping already exist in BPC and in the flat file.
Below is my Transformation file. The dimension and file in question is Account and account.xls.
OPTIONS
FORMAT = DELIMITED
HEADER = YES
DELIMITER = TAB
AMOUNTDECIMALPOINT = .
SKIP = 0
SKIPIF =
VALIDATERECORDS=YES
CREDITPOSITIVE=NO
MAXREJECTCOUNT=999999
ROUNDAMOUNT=
*MAPPING
Account=GL_Account
Entity=CompanyID
AuditID=*newcol(INPUT)
Currency=*newcol(LC)
Consoscope=*newcol(G_NONE)
Interco=*newcol(I_NONE)
Time=AsOfDate
Category=*newcol(BUDGET)
Flow=GL_Account
*CONVERSION
Account= account.xls
Entity=Entity.xls
Time=Time.xls
AMOUNT = account.XLS
Flow=flow.xls

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