Account Reconciling

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Jul 31 01:03:42 CDT 2003


Herman <Herman at AerospaceSoftware.com> writes:

> Hmmm, I think you entered a new transaction with an old date, causing it to be 
> inserted amongst the older reconciled transactions.

But that wouldn't affect the reconciled balance...  When you open the
account register, is the "reconciled balance" correct (as per your
opening balance on this month's statement, or the ending balance on
last month's)?

-derek

> 
> On Wednesday 30 July 2003 7:27 pm, Jon Lapham 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?
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