Reconciliation: Incorrect Starting Balance

[Tommy Trussell]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 3:13 PM, DGPickett <dgpickett at aol.com> wrote:

> I had an account where I had been replacing reconciled transactions with
> copied more accurately split ones, and it was off even for the first
> transaction, which seems like a bug.
>

The most likely source of the "bug" is that the replacement splits that you
entered don't add up the same as the originals.



> Since the imbalance must be coming from deleted reconciled transactions
> down
> the time line, I made a fake transaction with a very low date, reconciled
> it
> using whatever balance worked and redated it way down the time stream.
>  Now,
> by changing that balance, I can get any reconciliation to work with the
> real
> balance of that date.  Once things are all reconciled again, I cannot
> delete
> that fake or they go off balance.
>
> There should be a way to zap the account back to all 'n' with $0 balance
> reconciled, so it can be re-reconciled.  I was sad to see repair did not do
> this.
>

I may be misunderstanding what you want to do, but you cannot have it both
ways -- I would think you you must either have accurate transactions OR
correcting transactions to make the balances correct.

It sounds like you need to un-reconcile and re-reconcile ALL the
transactions from the point where you deleted and re-entered them so you
can find out where you made your mistake(s), rather than entering
correcting transactions.


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