Reconsile account and subaccount is broken by user activity

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Stephen Torri <storri at torri.org>:

> On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 22:55 +0000, Maf. King wrote:
>> I think you don't have to worry about the opening balance if your accounts
>> might be messed up.
>>
>> GnuCash calculates the opening balance, so if you think your data is messed
>> up, you know that the calculation might be wrong too!
>>
>> If the end balance matches the statement after reconciling normally (but you
>> might need to check older statements/transactions too - if they are in the
>> reconcile dialog box) then you will have fixed some errors in your file.
>> Everything should be OK next month.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Maf.
>
> Even with GnuCash calculating the beginning balance for the period I
> find that I have a problem. When I took the bank statement and checked
> off what in the statement I found that I had a 341.55 difference saying
> I need more transactions sayings funds were taken out. When I did the
> reconciliation, before I did the sub-account reconciliation, the
> beginning balance was spot on with the bank. They only problem then was
> this transaction that was not capture in the previous month's
> reconciliation for some reason. Now GnuCash will not let me finish the
> reconcilation process until the difference between the Funds In and
> Funds Out is zero.

A) Click on the "include subaccounts"
B) Click on the last-month transaction too!

> Stephen

-derek

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