Opening balance correction.

[jim]

Thanks Andrew for the response.  I may have misled everyone by using the
term opening balance. The part that is incorrect is in the reconcile
screen and is the "starting balance". I have checked repeatedly all
entries for the year in question and all are correct. The difference
must have occurred sometime during this past year when I did a
reconciliation and unknowingly entered an incorrect starting balance.
This makes all subsequent reconciliations to not reconcile as far as I
have been able to determine. I suppose the only solution is to re-enter
all the transactions without reconciling any of the periods, then doing
a reconciliation at the end. Shouldn't take but about two, may three
days.:(

I do have another question. Is there a way to reverse the position of
the columns, debit and credit (increase and decrease)? If so, I haven't
found it yet. The reason? All printed registers and all software of
which I'm aware, have the debits listed first, credits listed second...
at least in my "neck of the woods".

Respectfully,
Jim

On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 07:49 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 10:55:29PM -0600, jim wrote:
> > 	Hello, I'm trying to reconcile my new gnucash register.  I've been
> > using Quickbooks for several years so my learning curve is kind of
> > steep.  My problem is that the Quickbooks register reconciles correctly.
> > The gnucash register does not, because I made a mistake on entering the
> > opening balance.  All debits and all credits and all balances in both
> > registers are identical and have been checked many many times. The
> > gnucash reconciliation does not drop to a zero amount only because the
> > opening balance is incorrect. How can I change the opening balance to be
> > correct without re-entering all the data?
> 
> HI Jim, I saw your thread in the irc logs -- if you are dealing iwht a
> situation where you truly have just the wrong opening balance, then
> just change that opening balance. It is a transaction like any
> other. But make *sure* that's what it is. And (I've done it to) be
> sure to put a note in the transaction so you know what you did...
> 
> 
> > Also, is there a way to
> > get a report printed out of the current reconciliation when it is
> > completed?
> 
> no, not that I'm aware of. THat report from QB, IIRC was a listing of
> what you cleared and what remained uncleared. The first you probably
> can't get, but the second you can get from a register report.
> 
> Oh, and welcome to GnuCash!
> 
> A
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