Reconciling questions

[tzakharov at charter.net]

I'm sorry, I don't think I made myself clear.  I never tried to reconcile a future transaction.  What led you to believe I meant that?

Let me provide a little more detail.  First, I input all my transactions from Jan to present prior to doing any reconciling (this is why I'm reconciling older transactions right now). In my April statement was a transaction for $91.14.  Somehow, during the reconciliation process, this single transaction did not get marked as reconciled, even though I manually ticked the check box next to the transaction while reconciling, and even though the balances zeroed out while reconciling.  Perhaps this is because I manually ticked the box?  I'm not sure why (maybe I forgot to clear it before reconciling), but this was the ONLY transaction that did not automatically have a tick in the check box.  Anyhow, after I finished reconciling that month, I noticed the $91.14 transaction still had a "c" instead of a "y" like all the other transactions in that statement period.

In May's statement (it ended May 21, maybe this is where you got confused?), when I started to reconcile, the $91.14 transaction showed up on the first line.  After going through the May statement, again I got the balances to zero out with the correct ending balance (the starting balance was $91.14 more than my May statement because of that one transaction).  But when I finished reconciling the May statement, there was once again one transaction that was not reconciled even though it was part of the May statement and I ticked the checkbox while reconciling.  This time it was a deposit for my salary, and it happened to be the last transaction on my May statement.  Could the fact that I had the $91.14 transaction tacked on to the front of the May statement have pushed the last transaction off?

I hope this makes more sense.

Thanks.  
---- Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> Quoting timzak <tzakharov at charter.net>:
> 
> >
> > Thanks for the reply.  I decided to go ahead and reconcile against my bank
> > statements.  All went well until March or April's statement (can't remember
> > which as the date of the transaction in question is right on the border).
> > Basically, there was a single transaction that didn't get automatically
> > selected during the reconcile process, I think because it was a split
> > transaction and I forgot to set it as cleared.  So in the Reconcile menu,
> > this transaction was unchecked.  I checked it, and the reconcile process got
> > balanced to zero (as it should).  However, when I finished reconciling, that
> > transaction only showed a "c", not a "y" like it should if it had been
> > reconciled.  I wasn't sure what happened, and could not figure out how to go
> > back and reconcile just the one transaction, so I moved on to the next
> > month's statement and saw that the transaction in question showed up in the
> > next statement's reconciliation window.  Again, I went through each
> > transaction, noting that they all had checks next to them.  When I got to
> > the end, I noticed one deposit of salary that was not checked, and the
> > balance was off by that same amount.  So I put a check next to that deposit
> > (it was the last transaction on that month's statement), and saw the
> > balances get to zero (balanced the month).  Everything looked great, so I
> > applied the reconciliation.  This time I noticed that the original
> > transaction that didn't get reconciled, was now reconciled.  Yay!  However,
> > now this last deposit that I had to manually check in the reconcile window
> > does not show as reconciled!  It has a "c" instead of a "y" just like the
> > original one I mentioned.  It appears now that I have to wait til next
> > month's statement and tack this one onto next months to reconcile it,
> > leaving me to wonder if there will be another transaction that this happens
> > with, leaving me in some weird endless loop.  Does this sound familiar?  Do
> > you have any way to help me?  Am I making any sense?
> > javascript:Nabble.smiley('anim_confused.gif',':confused:')
> >
> > Thanks.
> 
> I'm afraid it does not sound familiar, but it also doesn't sound all
> that surprising..   How can a transaction that happened in the future
> get reconciled?  E.g., if you took money out of an ATM on May 23rd,
> how could it show up on a statement dated May 22nd?
> 
> To me it sounds like you're entering in the incorrect statement
> date, or your marking your transaction dates incorrectly.
> 
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> 
> -derek
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