Reconcile Credit Card Account-Transaction After Statement Closing

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I am going to do the entire thing from start. I may be new to Gnucash, 
but not to reconciling. I am sure I am missing something because I am 
not used to the interface. I don't see any problem with the interface, 
so I must have just made some sort of error. I am sure I will get it 
this time.

On 07/06/2012 03:35 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 6 July 2012 21:24, INFO<info8824 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> The beginning and ending balances were correct. I will do the entire thing
>> from the beginning and carefully monitor what I am doing. I am convinced I
>> am doing something silly.
>
> When you start the starting and ending balances should match those
> from the statement and the Difference figure should be the difference
> between those.  As you tick them off then the difference is adjusted
> by the amount of each transaction so when they are all checked it
> should be zero.
>
> Colin
>
>>
>>
>> On 07/06/2012 03:00 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>>>
>>> On 6 July 2012 20:51, INFO<info8824 at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Greetings:
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to reconcile a credit card account - my first attempt at
>>>> using
>>>> Gnucash reconciliation. I encountered the following problem.
>>>>
>>>> Everything went fine. I checked all the transactions on the statement,
>>>> the
>>>> reconciled balance was exactly the same as the statement. However, when I
>>>> tried to click the check mark to complete the reconciliation, it was
>>>> greyed
>>>> out. I had one transaction that was a charge made after the closing date
>>>> of
>>>> the statement. I could not complete the reconciliation unless I also
>>>> checked
>>>> that transaction, which was not part of this reconciliation.
>>>>
>>>> After I checked the transaction that occurred after the closing date of
>>>> the
>>>> statement, then I could complete the reconciliation. However, now the
>>>> account shows the interest charge in a negative red, then shows it
>>>> correctly
>>>> thereafter, and now shows a zero balance for the account.
>>>>
>>>> I can avoid the interest problem by checking no auto interest and
>>>> entering
>>>> it manually, but that still doesn't allow me to complete the
>>>> reconciliation
>>>> without checking the transaction that occurred after the statement
>>>> closing
>>>> date.
>>>>
>>>> Clearly, I am missing something here, something simple no doubt. I
>>>> followed
>>>> the instructions in the guide, but with no success. Any directions?
>>>
>>>
>>> When starting the reconcile it pops up a dialog with an Ending Balance
>>> field.  You should set this to the closing balance on the statement
>>> (which may not be the value filled in by gnucash).  Also check that
>>> the starting balance shown there matches the starting balance in the
>>> account.  When you have finished reconciling the figure against
>>> Difference in the reconcile window should be zero.
>>>
>>> Colin L