Reconciling labor costs with GL

Hello,
I have an issue reconciling labor costs with GL.
The report "Generate Cost Accounting Events Report" shows the total amount for labor cost transactions as $10M
wheres after running the "PRC Create accounting" the journal posted in GL is only $9M.
How do i find out the discrepencey of $1M. Are there any reconciliation reports available to compare the transactions between GL and PA.
Note: There is no data in gl interface and there is no exceptions reported in distrubute labor costs ,and cost accounting event reports

Looks like there might be $1MN not accounted, check for expenditures labor and trying to do a export from expenditures inquiry screen for a date ranges and then compare with the report data
also looking for any exceptions, run the exceptions report detail request
Thanks
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