Opening balance reconciling investment account incorrect.

[David T.]

Harold—

The only explanation is that there is somewhere in your GnuCash data file a transaction that has been reconciled. I say this because GnuCash calculates the opening balance in the reconcile window from all the reconciled transactions. I think there are two possibilities here: 

1) you are not viewing all the transactions in the file, which can happen if you have set your register to filter out transactions before a certain date (as, for example when viewing data in the General Ledger register), or 

2) you have a transaction at some later date that has been reconciled. Contrary to typical user expectations, transactions with later dates in the file with a reconciled status will be included in the starting balance.

I am not sure what your situation might be.

David

On Nov 11, 2013, at 4:23 AM, hnaparst <harold at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> I am trying out Gnucash 2.4.13.  I am trying to move an investment account
> from Quicken.  All the transactions have imported correctly using a QIF
> import.  Now I am trying to reconcile the account.
> 
> First thing I did was to mark all transactions in Gnucash as not reconciled,
> including all the splits.  The initial balance in the account is zero.
> 
> When I begin the reconciliation, however, Gnucash shows the opening balance
> as a non-zero number, which is incorrect.  I have read section 4.5.1 of the
> manual, as well as bug 639264.
> 
> I do not understand why the opening balance is incorrect in the reconcile
> window, and I do not understand how to fix it.
> 
> Kind Regards.
> 
> 
> 
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