Reconciliation problem

[David T.]

Ken--

If I were you, I'd look for a transaction in the amount of $52.16 that was changed or deleted. And then, I would simply re-reconcile, *ignoring the starting balance figure*. The opening balance is calculated, and all you really need to worry about in this circumstance is what figure appears at the end.

This is why editing reconciled transactions can get confusing.

David

--- On Sun, 1/3/10, Ken Heard <ken at heard.name> wrote:

> From: Ken Heard <ken at heard.name>
> Subject: Re: Reconciliation problem
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Sunday, January 3, 2010, 3:55 PM
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> Maf. King wrote:
> 
> > 52.16 = 32.09 - (-20.07), so I think that GC can still
> do the math.  How 
> > the -$20.07 arises is the question!
> 
> That is useful to know!
> 
> > My guess is that sometime since you got March to
> reconcile, you have altered 
> > or deleted a (split of a) transaction affecting your
> GC Visa register, in the 
> > months you had reconciled (ie opening balance, jan feb
> or march).
> 
> I must have, but I do not have any recollection of having
> done so; nor
> at the time nine or more months ago I would not have known
> any better.
> 
> > It is a pain, but if you go back and manually
> de-reconcile the earlier months 
> > (click on the R column, and confirm in the dialogue
> box) and you start the 
> > reconcile over, you should find the changed txn. 
> (you may be able to do this 
> > by inspection, too)
> 
> txn?
> 
> I did as you suggested and de-reconciled all the entries in
> the Visa
> payables account.  I then tried to reconcile, but the
> first window which
> pops up, the "Reconcile information" window, still showed a
> starting
> balance, this time $36.77, a amount which I did not
> recognize.
> 
> Since I could find no way to change this amount to zero, I
> tried
> something else.  I renamed the Visa payables account
> and then created a
> new Visa payables account with the old name.  Then,
> with no entries
> posted in it I opened the reconcile procedure.  Lo and
> behold, the
> starting balance was zero!
> 
> Next I transferred a couple of entries from the old account
> to the new
> one and opened reconcile procedure once again.  It
> still showed the
> starting balance as zero!!
> 
> It would now seem that if I want to have a reconcilable
> Visa payables
> account I will have to transfer a year's worth of
> entries.  A year ago I
>  was just learning GnuCash (and relearning all the
> accounting principles
> and practices which I first learned fifty years ago) and
> made many
> mistakes.  I now know better than to change a
> reconciled entry.
> 
> Nevertheless, it should be possible for stupid people like
> me to change
> the reconciliation starting balance when absolutely
> necessary.  Should I
> file a bug to that effect?
> 
> Regards, Ken Heard
> 
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