First reconcilation looks odd

[Derek Atkins]

Stephen Torri <storri at torri.org> writes:

> On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 02:32 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I think the answer is "just make sure you reconcile both
>> sides"
>
> I manually adjusted each side of the Opening Balances for the children
> accounts by going into the checking account register and clicking on the
> 'n' in the Reconciled column ('R') so that both the "Deposit" and
> "Withdrawal" lines in the transaction were 'c'. I also did this for the
> internal transactions that moved money from the parent to a children for
> saving money when the next paycheck arrived. Going back to the reconcile
> window I see that both the Funds In and Funds Out are checked now. So
> that appears to be fine but now the Difference balance is not zero even
> with all the transactions reported on the statement being checked as
> well. The difference is negative. I don't see any missing transactions
> that would cover the difference.

Did you type in the ending balance correctly from the statement?

-derek

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