Reconcile initial balance error

[Maf. King]

On Thursday 07 December 2006 14:33, kendall green wrote:
> More info as requested.  I started using gnucash after wiping out my NTFS
> drive containing Money 2004.  I imported qif files from May 2006.  I
> reentered the checkbook data from then on, reconciling the balance each
> month.  In June, I was not surprised to have to enter a $599 withdrawal to
> the Imbalance USD account.  July reconciled fine.  In August there was a
> $303.43 deposit needed in the Imbalance account.  Sept, Oct, Nov statements
> reconciled fine.  In Dec, a 654.20 deposit was needed in the Imbalance
> account.  Each time, that the checking account doesn't balance, it is the
> INITIAL balance that is in error.  The reconciled balance from Nov bank
> statement was 679.50. When I tried to balance the Dec bank statement, the
> initial balance was higher by 654.20.  Of course, I have checked and
> rechecked all transactions and can't find any errors.  What could cause the
> reconciled balance to change between bank statements?

Hi,

In my experience, the opening balance of the reconcile process only gets 
changed if I have made changes to one of the transactions which is already 
reconciled....possibly from the transfer account.

 IIRC there is a dialog warning of potential problems if you change the 
transaction, and 'cos I _always_ know better than the computer what I'm 
trying to do, I tend to ignore the warning and then forget about it later... 
until nothing reconciles.

HTH
Maf.