Starting balance off

[David]

Have you done any editing of older transactions? Reclassifying? It sounds like you deleted a .30 transaction, which happens to me when I am mucking around with older transactions. That's all I can imagine.  

David



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From: Fuchs Ira <irafuchs at gmail.com>
Sent: Sun Aug 12 07:03:50 PDT 2012
To: Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Starting balance off


Thanks for the advice. I will check the logs. I have not reset the warning (I like having it lest I make exactly this mistake). I am perplexed as to how this (albeit small) discrepancy has appeared.


On Aug 12, 2012, at 9:27 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> A long shot, but search your .log files for entries with recn=y and see if
> any correspond with this account? Note tat this is definitely going way
> far under the covers but might point you in the right direction.
> 
> I highky recommend you reset the warnings. Gnucash will warn you if you
> try to modify a reconciled txn, but you can override and make the warnings
> go away in the future. This probably is what bit you.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> -derek
> 
> On Sun, August 12, 2012 8:33 am, Fuchs Ira wrote:
>> Not a silly question. Yes, it is an interest bearing account and yes I did
>> enter the interest (it would not have reconciled without it…the Finish
>> button will not be enabled unless the difference is 0.00). The only thing
>> I can think of is that somehow one transaction (and unfortunately it
>> doesn't have to be the previous month) was changed and that the starting
>> balance changed as a result. However, to find this change I would need to
>> go back and recheck every transaction for this account (over one year)
>> which is not feasible. It would be great if there were a log entry for a
>> reconciled transaction which was changed i.e., if the user overrides the
>> warning). Of course, I don't recall making any such change so this is just
>> speculation but I don't know how the balance could be off otherwise, given
>> that I reconciled the account last month.
>> 
>> On Aug 12, 2012, at 1:08 AM, David Carlson wrote:
>> 
>>> It is difficult to give a short answer to a question like this.
>>> Actually, it is easier to ask a few questions.
>>> 
>>> Can you look at the register balance and see the same error amount
>>> there? If so, how about a month or more earlier?
>>> 
>>> When you look at the reconciliation lists of unreconciled deposits and
>>> withdrawals do you see any transactions with dates earlier than the
>>> current month?
>>> 
>>> Are there any reconciled transactions with dates after the
>>> reconciliation date?
>>> 
>>> If you look under Actions:Reset Warnings.. do you find any warnings that
>>> have been disabled? That can make some errors easier to make
>>> accidentally.
>>> 
>>> Perhaps other users can think of more questions.
>>> 
>>> David C
>>> From: Fuchs Ira <irafuchs at gmail.com>
>>> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>>> Sent: Sat, August 11, 2012 10:48:04 PM
>>> Subject: Starting balance off
>>> 
>>> I reconciled my checking account last month and now when I go to
>>> reconcile the account for this month, the starting balance differs from
>>> the ending balance of the previous month by $.30. How is this possible?
>>> Given this discrepancy, I can no longer reconcile the account unless I
>>> enter a fictitious transaction (or change a reconciled transaction) to
>>> make it balance, obviously not a good idea. I double-checked all of the
>>> reconciled transactions from the previous month to make sure that
>>> nothing had changed after the reconciliation and they are correct. I
>>> just don't understand how the starting balance can differ from the
>>> previous month's reconciled ending balance.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for any help you can provide.
>>> 
>>> 
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