Reconcile Credit Card Account-Transaction After Statement Closing

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No I did that correctly.

On 07/06/2012 02:55 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When you started the process did you manually enter the correct ending
> balance from your statement into GnuCash's reconcile dialog?  I bet you
> did NOT do that, which is why there's the discrepancy.
>
> -derek
>
> On Fri, July 6, 2012 3:51 pm, INFO wrote:
>> Greetings:
>>
>> I am trying to reconcile a credit card account - my first attempt at
>> using Gnucash reconciliation. I encountered the following problem.
>>
>> Everything went fine. I checked all the transactions on the statement,
>> the reconciled balance was exactly the same as the statement. However,
>> when I tried to click the check mark to complete the reconciliation, it
>> was greyed out. I had one transaction that was a charge made after the
>> closing date of the statement. I could not complete the reconciliation
>> unless I also checked that transaction, which was not part of this
>> reconciliation.
>>
>> After I checked the transaction that occurred after the closing date of
>> the statement, then I could complete the reconciliation. However, now
>> the account shows the interest charge in a negative red, then shows it
>> correctly thereafter, and now shows a zero balance for the account.
>>
>> I can avoid the interest problem by checking no auto interest and
>> entering it manually, but that still doesn't allow me to complete the
>> reconciliation without checking the transaction that occurred after the
>> statement closing date.
>>
>> Clearly, I am missing something here, something simple no doubt. I
>> followed the instructions in the guide, but with no success. Any
>> directions?
>>
>> I have been trying to use Gnucash for a long time. Now that I can use
>> the SQLite3 backend, most of my previous limitations are gone. I can use
>> queries to get any information I need on a copy of the file. Gnucash now
>> seems like a powerful business tool that is easily queried for any
>> desired data, and easily connected to office suites for any desired data
>> manipulation.
>>
>> Joel Bailey
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