Reconciling Pre-History

[David T.]

Pete,

Presumably, if you reconciled previously, you had to account for the 
earlier transactions, most likely with an Opening Balance transaction.

That Opening Balance transaction duplicates in a single transaction all 
your earlier transactions. Now you want to unpack that transaction. You 
have two options, as I see it:

1) If you are adding every transaction back to the account--that is, 
from the original zero balance (although I guess any zero balance point 
would have the same result), then you can simply delete the Opening 
Balance transaction.

2) If you are merely backing up to some arbitrary earlier date, then you 
should edit the Opening balance transaction, change the date to your new 
(earlier) start point, and modify the amounts involved to reflect the 
opening balance sat that earlier date. So, if you’re going back to 1 
Jan 2002 and the balance was $45.35 on that date, change the transaction 
to reflect that.

Once you’ve done 1 or 2, you should be able to proceed with the 
reconcile.

David

On Feb 24, 2014, at 9:23 PM, Pete <pd20140224 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Is there any way to reconcile additional historical transactions entered
> AFTER completing reconciliation on an account?
> 
> I've found one or two old messages out there indicating that I should just
> be able to use the regular Reconcile feature and just check off any
> remaining old transactions (presumably so long as the closing balance is
> still valid) and it would reconcile ok.
> 
> What I'm finding, however, is that, even though all the new (old)
> transactions are pre-checked, and the ending balance is correct (even
> selecting the same date and amount as was used in the previous successful
> reconciliation) I cannot complete the reconcilation, because the difference
> presented is non-zero, so the Finish button remains disabled.
> 
> With another account, running into the same issue, I got around it by
> manually marking the old transactions as reconciled directly in the
> .gnucash file xml. Worked fine when I only had a dozen transactions to deal
> with, but this time I've got hundreds, and it sure would be nice if I could
> just use the reconcile window.
> 
> Thanks,
> Pete
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