Registry Entry math error
Neil Knight
nakinigit at gmail.com
Thu May 1 21:54:20 EDT 2014
I have a problem with 2 register entries in gnucash:
previous balance is $1,080.91, Check entered for $39.82. New
balance, according to the register, is now $1,001.27.
But 1,080.91 - 39.82 = $1041.09. How can this be? There are no
splits, I only use one currency.
Same problem with the next transaction: check for 20.28, written
against the gnucash balance of $1,001.27,**new balance shows**as
960.71 Again, 1001.27 - 20.28 = $980.99
It seems that in both cases, the amount of the debit was doubled.
The total error is $60.10, and if I delete the offending
transactions, that same error gets carried forward to the next
transaction. Incidentally, all of my experimentation was done
without ever saving the file.
The account has been reconciled years ago, and the start and end
balances were fine back then. But something has changed, and it has
taken me this long to actually identify the culprit. There have been
no deletions of cleared transactions, other than my experimentation.
My workaround has been to enter a correction of $60.10, but I can
never mark that transaction as cleared, as it will screw up
subsequent reconcilliations.
It may be to late to actually fix my data, but this sort of problem
makes me nervous, and I have spent a tremendous amount of time
trying to get to the bottom of this. Any suggestions?
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