Opening balance reconciling investment account incorrect.

[hnaparst]

My problem was simply that I had unreconciled all the transactions after
importing them.  This is a no-no in Gnucash.  The only way to get a zero
opening balance is not to touch anything before starting the reconciliation.

I deleted the entire account and then re-imported.  The first thing I did
after that was a reconciliation, which worked.

There needs to be a big warning in the documentation that you shouldn't
change the reconciliation status of a transaction manually or you will
enter a state that you cannot recover from.

There are certainly a lot of other problems for the Gnucash developers to
be working on, such as the 141 open import-related bugs.

Thanks for your response.



On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 9:10 PM, David T. [via GnuCash] <
ml-node+s1415818n4665394h29 at n4.nabble.com> wrote:

> 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 <[hidden email]<http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4665394&i=0>>
> 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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