Reconciling an earlier date that the last reconciled

[papa.eric at free.fr]

Thanks,

I thinks I understood what I missed: the starting reconciled balance is the sum of all reconciled transactions. Not just those earlier than the reconciling date.

So after adding earlier transactions, reconciling should still use the last date already reconciled, then the balance makes sense. My mistake was trying to reconcile only from the bank report I added: I wanted to add june 2009 and reconcile with the final june 2009 balance, but since I had reconciled everything up to january 2010, I should reconcile with always the same january value.

This turns out to be quite simple. I think it would be less misleading if a warning was issued when entering a reconciling date earlier than the last one (which would only make sense after de-reconciling latest transactions).

Eric

----- "jomali" <jomali3945 at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Start the reconcile process.
> Enter the reconcile date.
> Ignore the ending balance
> Check off the entered items.
> Note the ending balance.
> Under the Reconcile menu item, open Reconcile Information
> Put the ending balance noted above into the Ending Balance field.
> Hit OK
> Note that the Difference item is no zero and the Finish button is
> lighted.
> Click Finish.
> You're done, except to correct the starting balance to account for the
> addition of the June entries.
> 
> 
> Jomali