Reconciliation: Incorrect Starting Balance

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Mon Oct 28 09:48:35 EDT 2013


On 28 October 2013 12:50, David <dgpickett at aol.com> wrote:
> So, an imbalance in the future reconciled can make a past reconcile go nuts.
> A workaround is to add a future fake reconciled to adjust the early start to
> zero for the past date you are reconciling.  Once there are no future
> reconciled it should have to be set to zero and is not needed.  Probably a
> lot of this problem came from future reconciled items.

I believe the problem came from changing already reconciled
transactions.  That is not something one should do unless one realises
that an error has been made in the reconcile.  Note that if it is
realised that the transaction has been allocated to the wrong expense
account (for example) there is no need to adjust the reconciled
transaction to change the account it is allocated to.  Just select the
transaction and hit the Split button, then one can change the expense
account(s).

Colin


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