transactions all cleared, out of balance with reconcile

Cory Waddingham cory at waddingham.org
Tue Apr 1 14:59:01 EDT 2014


Thanks for the tip! Doing it in stages worked! I was still off, but at the end it was only about $5. I think there was a Starbucks purchase that got missed somehow…

Cory

On Apr 1, 2014, at 11:18, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Cory Waddingham <cory at waddingham.org> writes:
> 
>> I’m having a problem getting my account to reconcile with my bank’s
>> list of transactions and am hoping someone on this list can
>> help. After importing all of the transactions with my bank over the
>> last year (since the account was created), and going through all of
>> the manually-entered transactions to make sure they are cleared, I’m
>> showing a difference of about $105 (in my favor) with the account. So
>> far as I can tell, every single transaction entered in GNUCash
>> corresponds to an entry in my bank’s exported Quicken information. I’m
>> not sure what the problem could be.
>> 
>> Also, when I try to reconcile using the latest bank statement, I show
>> a difference of about $1200. When I enter the balancing entry for that
>> amount it screws things up further and shows a difference of that
>> amount between the cleared transactions and what my bank shows. No
>> matter what I do I can’t get GNUCash to show the same amount in this
>> account as my bank.
>> 
>> I’m at my wits end and really hope there’s some way, other than
>> creating a new GNUCash account to track my checking account, to fix
>> this.
> 
> Does the starting balance match up?
> 
>> I should note that this is the first time I’m trying to reconcile the
>> account. I don’t know if that makes a difference or not at this point.
> 
> Oh, the first time?  I recommend you do it in stages, one month at a
> time.  Start with your first month's statement and make sure that
> reconciles.  Then move forward one month at a time.
> 
> For what it's worth, I just reconciled a credit card account the other
> day and it took me 4 times going through the whole thing before I
> discovered my typo!
> 
>> Thanks in advance for any help. 
>> 
>> Cory Waddingham
> 
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> -derek
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