wrong starting balance on reconcile

[Kim_Wood]

I had the same issues when I first started using Gnucash.  I almost ditched
Gnucash over what I thought was a pretty crappy reconciliation
implementation compared to Quicken when I first started using it.  Quicken's
reconciliation is a thing of beauty!

However, I have persevered with Gnucash, and it is just much better in so
many ways than Quicken, that I will not go back to the dark side.

I have resolved my concerns with the reconciliation function by ensuring
that the reconciliation balance agrees with the register balance at the
reconciliation date.  When you open up the reconciliation screen, check that
the balance shown for the selected reconciliation date agrees with the
actual register balance.  I have had to manulally change the reconciliation
screen balance to match the register a couple of times.  It then works fine. 
I am sure that I have no earlier unreconciled transactions, or any other
problems in my "very clean" register.  It has then all worked fine, and I
have not felt too bent out of shape doing it.  My tension with the whole
Gnucash reconciliation thing has pretty much gone away now.  

Regards,

Kim


 

David T. wrote:
> 
> 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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