Failure to Balance
David T.
sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 26 01:37:40 EDT 2007
This thread is old, but I thought you all would like to know that I finally
found out what was causing my trouble (hint: it wasn't Gnucash!). It seems that
on several multi-split transactions in 2006 (paychecks with 12 different lines
on them) which had been imported from a Quicken QIF file, two lines got put
into the ledger twice--once in the original transaction, and once as a
free-standing transaction. The original transaction in Quicken was reconciled,
so both of these got reconciled flags on import. Because the transactions were
to retirement accounts that I don't reconcile very often, I never noticed the
extra cash sitting in the parent cash account. I was reconciling these accounts
yesterday, and found those extra entries, which cleared up the discrepancy.
For that person asking recently about whether to reconcile: I'd say you should!
Cheers, and thanks for all the suggestions back then!
David
--- "Michael B. Trausch" <fd0man at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 23:07 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
> > First thing I would try is "Check & Repair" which should make sure all
> > your transactions are balanced. This will add splits to the
> > Unreconciled
> > or Imbalance accounts. From there, I dont know what to tell you. It
> > does sound like there are missing transactions that got deleted.
>
>
> Interesting. I had a little bit of a problem balancing my GC file and I
> had to print out the transaction log and go through them to find where
> the problem was. I even tried that Check & Repair thing (after I made a
> backup, of course, because I didn't know exactly what C&R did). What it
> was, though, at least in my case, was the first of two transactions made
> in a foreign currency. GC somehow figured on making the exchange rate
> 1:1 for USD:GBP when I created my first GBP account, and when I paid it
> off with a proper exchange rate was when the imbalance was created.
>
> â Mike
>
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