Reconcile Will NOT Allow Finish

[David T.]

I suspect that the problem may lie with Jay's choice of ending statement dates. 

Gnucash automatically selects and checks 'C' (cleared) transactions that are less than or equal to the statement date, and skips those that fall after the entered statement date. 

So, if you erroneously put in 4/24/2010 in the opening window, but the statement really closed on 4/21, the wrong transactions will be checked. In this case, you'd need to uncheck the transactions from 4/22 to 4/24 to get to the right amount.

Of course, none of this matters as long as you put in the correct closing balance and then check only those transactions that appear on the statement.

Finally, Jay, you shouldn't delete transactions out of the reconcile window (unless you really mean to remove them!); you only need to check (or uncheck) the reconcile box next to each transaction. All this does is set the Reconcile value in the transaction.

HTH
David

--- On Sat, 4/24/10, FireFly <fireflys_98 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: FireFly <fireflys_98 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Reconcile Will NOT Allow Finish
> To: "Jay Ridgley" <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Saturday, April 24, 2010, 12:53 PM
> 
> --- On Sat, 4/24/10, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com>
> > Subject: Re: Reconcile Will NOT Allow Finish
> > >       
> > Then for every OUTSTANDING entry I must post it as
> cleared
> > and then go back and mark it unreconciled( that was
> what I
> > did ). Somehow this seems counter productive. We
> should be
> > able to run clearing any time we have a statement from
> our
> > bank.
> > 
> > The other alternative is to exclude the OUTSTANDING
> > entries... does deleting them from the clearing panel
> ONLY
> > impact the clearing or does it also affect the
> transaction
> > as well???
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Jay
> > 
> Lost me completely I'm afraid,
> 
> I guess let me explain what I do, and see if it helps,
> 
> So for an account that I don't import from the bank, I
> click on reconcile, put in the statement date and the ending
> balance (starting balance should be correct, since that's
> the amount as of last time you reconciled)
> 
> It brings up a window with funds in on the left, and funds
> out on the right at the bottom it tells me statement date,
> starting balance, ending balance, reconciled amount and
> difference.
> 
> I then select the correct funds in, and out (as appeared on
> the statement) to get my difference to 0, and reconciled
> amount to equal the ending balance. At that point the
> "Finish" button becomes available, and I move forward.
> 
> Does that help at all?
> 
> James Duerr
> 
> 
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