Reconciliation starting balance

[Wes Sheldahl]

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On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 06:48:34PM -0500, Wes Sheldahl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having trouble cleaning up an old reconciliation problem in one
> of my accounts. In order to get back to a "known good" state, I
> cleared a couple month's worth of reconciled transactions so that
> GnuCash and my bank statements would agree at least up to that
> point. I was hoping I would then be able to re-reconcile the months
> that I cleared, and move on from there.
> 
> The problem is that when I go to reconcile the account, the previous
> ending balance GnuCash shows does not match the bank's statement.
> However, it obviously should, as I took the last ending balance on
> that date, subtracted uncleared transactions prior to that date, and
> came up with the right number. So my question is, how does GnuCash
> determine what the starting balance is when I go to reconcile the
> account, if not by totaling all reconciled transactions up to a
> certain date, or all reconciled transactions in general? How can I
> fix this?
 
Never mind. My error. It turns out that some rather old transactions
had been either re-marked as unreconciled, or deleted and reentered;
either way, the answer was to mark them cleared, go ahead and
reconcile using the wrong starting balance, and mark the old ones
reconciled while doing the rest of that month. Had to use a
spreadsheet to verify this would fix it before going ahead. 

Also, the way they got unreconciled is pretty obvious. The
transactions are all credit card payments; it probably happened
while I was trying to go back and fix/reconcile my old credit card
statements, which I don't always keep as current as my checking
account. Funny how they're all interconnected. ;-)

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Wes Sheldahl
wsheldahl@iglou.com
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