Reconciliation: Incorrect Starting Balance

[David]

No, born in US, my GPA in EE Computer Design at Drexel was 3.952.  I have worked with computers since Fortran on a GE 415 at Union College in 1967, hardware and software.

I was redoing almost a whole year, plus future trans for a year, and I deleted some and replaced them with new trans, and moved some around that were on the wrong year.  I could not reconcile any part of the account, not even for the first transaction, chronologically -- it has $6.37 from somewhere before the first transaction in some invisible or hidden in the pile at a future visible date, pre-dated cell.  If I put in a dummy transaction ahead of the first chronologically to do an adjustment, it was just as impossible to reconcile.  I could reconcile to a magic number that was 6.37 too high, not the amount of the first transaction (the running balance of the first transaction).

I put in a 6.37 transaction, reconciled it with a magic balance, moved it into the future, and then I could balance the first transaction.  By adjusting the amount of this formerly past now future transaction, I could now balance any date, including the current amount at the running balance.  That is a work around for now.


 Maybe, in a year, the right amount to balance will be zero, and I can delete the fake.

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net>
To: gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Cc: David <dgpickett at aol.com>
Sent: Sat, Oct 26, 2013 5:04 pm
Subject: Re: Reconciliation: Incorrect Starting Balance


On Sat 26 October 13 16:41:39 David wrote:

> 
>  The fact that I cannot reconcile my opening transaction because of some old
> transaction at a future date is silly.

Sorry, maybe English isn't your first language, but I really don't understand 
what you are trying to say here.

You can only reconcile old transactions, because to reconcile is to "agree" 
your transaction list (GC register) with some other transaction list such as a 
bank statement. Final payment due 30 days from show close


0.02
Maf.