Opening balance reconciling investment account incorrect.

Wed Nov 13 02:18:52 EST 2013

Haha, no matter.

Of greater concern is that importing most of my QIF-file securities
accounts fail.  There are 141 open import-related bugs, including some that
are quite similar to what I am experiencing.

Obviously, if I can't import my transactions, either from Quicken or from
my broker, then I can't use Gnucash at all.

Thanks for listening!

Harold

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:37 AM, David T. [via GnuCash] <
ml-node+s1415818n4665423h28 at n4.nabble.com> wrote:

> Harold--
>
> I'm not sure what exactly you are saying. While it may be confusing to
> manually un-reconcile transactions, it is not irreversible. You just have
> to ignore the value in the opening balance on the initial reconcile
> dialogue and then make sure that you get all the correct transactions
> selected in the subsequent reconcile window. Once that first reconciliation
> is completed, later iterations of the reconcile process should match your
> statements.
>
> If you look at section 4.5 of the guide, it discusses these issues. I note
> especially 4.5.1, which describes the initial reconcile window, and
> includes the following:
>
> Note
> Sometimes, the opening balance in GnuCash does not match that found on
> your statement. This can happen the first time you reconcile your account
> or when a previously-reconciled transaction is de-reconciled or deleted.
> The first time you reconcile your account, the starting balance will
> be 0.00, thus probably not the opening balance of your account. When you
> reconcile the account, the opening balance for the account will be included
> in the reconciliation, and the result should balance.
> In the case when a previously-reconciled transaction is accidentally
> de-reconciled, you can simply re-reconcile the transaction along with the
> transactions on the current statement, and the result should balance.
> The case of accidentally deleting a previously-reconciled transaction
> presents more of a challenge; if you cannot determine what was deleted and
> restore it to the register, you will have to create a dummy transaction to
> get the reconciliation to finish.
>
> HTH,
> David
>
>
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> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 1:20 PM
> Subject: Re: Opening balance reconciling investment account incorrect.
>
>
> 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] <
> [hidden email] <http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4665423&i=2>>
> 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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