Reconciliation in the past

[Roland Roberts]

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>>>>> "ld" == Laurent Duperval <lduperval at videotron.ca> writes:

    ld> I have never used the reconciliation feature of GC. Now I want
    ld> to reconcile everything with my bank statements, starting from
    ld> January. But since I'm always interrupted (a wife and three
    ld> children will do that to you), I want to do it month by
    ld> month. Is this possible?

Do like I do, wait until late at night 8-).

Yes, doing it month-by-month is the normal way to do it.

    ld> I tried doing it, giving the date of the statement as Feb 1
    ld> 2003. When I enter all the transactions, I end up with a
    ld> Difference that is non-zero. Is this normal or not?

*If* your beginning balance is the same between GC and your bank
statement, then after reconciliation, you should have a difference
which is zero, so no, this is not normal.

    ld> I reviewed the statement and the entries and it looks like
    ld> everything is OK. I chaecked and the difference is equal to a
    ld> mortgage payment. However, the mortgage payment appears on my
    ld> statement and in my GC sheet.

If you are like me and *were* doing this late at night, make sure you
didn't accidentally uncheck a mortgage payment---no, I would never do
that :-).  Or maybe you had two mortgage payments fall in the period?

You say it appears on both, so I'm *guessing* you did look for this,
but I've never seen GC mess up a reconciliation for me---I have had it
crash after I reconciled 5 accounts and before I remembered to save
:-(.


roland
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