Reconciling account - Starting Imbalance

[Derek Atkins]

David Brock <dmbrock at nm.cbc.ca> writes:

> Okay, last night, I went to reconcile my chequeing account against my
> statement, and although all the transactions were there, the "Opening
> Balance" on the account was off by $450 (high, IIRC), so I couldn't
> finish it.
>
> This used to happen when I used Quicken, and the only solution was to
> 'un-clear' dozens of transactions, and go back to a statement where it
> does balance, sometimes months prior, then work forward, statement by
> statement.  Normally, there was a transaction that had been reconciled
> and subsequently changed or deleted (careless clean-up, I won't pretend
> it wasn't me)  I suspect that this is the cause again.
>
> Is there some way of using the transaction logs to spot the trouble,
> instead of repeating the un-reconcile, reconcile procedure, if it is
> even possible?
>
> Can anyone suggest how to troubleshoot and correct?

Find an unreconciled transaction that falls within the reconciled date.
Otherwise your re-reconcile process is about the best option.

> ;-D

-derek

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