wrong starting balance on reconcile

[David T.]

Having run into this a couple of times myself, I would recommend looking around
again for another account that is out of whack. If after close examination, it
doesn't pop up, create a dummy transaction against your Imbalances account, and
hope that sometime down the line you find out which transaction got screwed up
and can now be fixed. I simply created a "Zeroing Transaction" from Imbalances
to the account in question.

This circumstance would be an argument for closing your files every year and
starting up anew, but that's got its downsides.

I would hazard a guess that my solution wouldn't satisfy an accountant, but
it's the best I can come up with, and solves the immediate problem in my own
home finances. Yuck!

David
 
--- Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Quoting carpetnailz <carpetnailz at researchintegration.org>:
> 
> > I'm trying to reconcile an account that reconciled OK last month but now
> > is showing the wrong starting balance by $11.00.
> >
> > I can't find any transaction in the past couple of months that might
> > account for that and can't think of any reason why the account would
> > have reconciled fine last month and then come up with the wrong starting
> > balance this month.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Generally this happens if you:
> 
> 1) Forget to save the file.
> 2) Delete a reconciled transaction
> 3) Modify a reconciled transaction
> 
> There's really no other way for this to happen.
> 
> > Thanks.
> 
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> -derek
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