Reconcile Will NOT Allow Finish

Jay Ridgley jridgley2 at austin.rr.com
Sat Apr 24 22:31:41 EDT 2010


David T. wrote:
> 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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> 
> 
>       
> 
Thanks, I will try that next month; because that is what I did. I used the 
current date instead of the statement closing date.

Cheers,
Jay

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Jay Ridgley
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