Account Reconciling

[Phil]

On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 13:07:34 -0700, Russell Lear <RussLear314 at yahoo.com> 
wrote:

> Oddly enough, I was just reconciling my current statement and the 
> starting balance is not the same as last month's ending balance!  It was 
> exactly $300 off.  I'm usually pretty compulsive about getting things to 
> balance correctly, so I don't believe I would have done this.  But I'm 
> not 100% certain.
>
> For that matter, I'm not even exactly sure how I would have done this if 
> I wanted to - if I mistyped the ending balance last month, I shouldn't 
> have been able to balance and if I balanced, the ending balance probably 
> was correct (although in this world, two errors sometimes make a 
> misleading right).
>
> Unfortunately, I read the thread after balancing (and making an ugly 
> adjustment with a vow to watch carefully next month).
>
> I've been using GnuCash 1.8.1 for at least two months now.  I haven't 
> seen this before, but it has been a short time.  (If it is important, I 
> imported my data from MS Money using its extended QIF export format to 
> get things started).
>

Russell,

My starting balance was short by 60.84. Rather than import data, I started 
GnuCash from scratch (in May) and used GnuCash and Quicken in parallel for 
a month and both systems were always in balance with one another. In June I 
went live with GnuCash.

I haven't had any trouble reconciling other accounts (another checking, a 
savings, and 3 credit card accounts.)  I'll get my next statement in about 
10 days.  I'm very curious to see what the outcome will be!

I'm using Mandrake 9.1, btw.

> Russell.
>
> On Sunday 03 August 2003 09:11, Phil wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 22:27:44 -0300, Jon Lapham <lapham at extracta.com.br>
>>
>> wrote:
>> > Phil wrote:
>> >> I've been using GnuCash 1.8.1 for a couple months now.  I reconciled 
>> my
>> >> checking account and it balanced.  It's been a month and I'm 
>> reconciling
>> >> it again.  My problem is that the Starting Balance is not the same as
>> >> last month's Ending Balance (this months beginning balance) on the 
>> bank
>> >> statement.
>> >
>> > Either you mistyped something, or your bank is stealing from you (or
>> > giving you money...).  :)
>> >
>> >> If this something that no one has ever heard of then I'll make an
>> >> adjustment and wait until next month to see if I have a problem 
>> again.
>> >>
>> >> Maybe I miskeyed last month but if so I don't know I balanced!
>> >
>> > Check your Ending Balance from your previous bank statement, does it
>> > agree with GnuCash, or with your Starting Balance of the new 
>> statement?
>>
>> I must have mistyped.  I'll make an adjustment and then watch closely 
>> next
>> month.
>
>

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Phil

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