Where does the Reconcile Information->Starting Balance get its number from?

[whwtan]

Thank you all.

Yeah, I believe I got my fundamentals wrong. My problems kept arising 
with liability credit card accounts instead of normal assets.

I will play around with the filters and reconciled figures until I 
understand how it gels together.
It's great to know it's a derived number and not simply a "last 
remembered reconciled" number stored in the back which we cannot see.

Thanks!

William

On 17/10/2014 2:35 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Aaron Laws <dartme18 at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> For what it's worth, I understand that number to be a sum of the
>> "Reconciled" splits to date. That's different from the last reconciled
>> balance if transactions have been marked unreconciled (or, heaven help us,
>> reconciled) outside the reconciliation process since the last
>> reconciliation.
>>
>> William, as you probably know, you're right to investigate this and get it
>> right to avoid balancing entries.
> I don't believe it computes it to the last reconciled date; I believe it
> computes it based on *all* reconciled transactions in the account (and
> subaccounts, if that's included).  It wouldn't use the date per-se
> because reconcile always happens forward in time; there is no way to
> reconcile "in the past", so it can safely assume that all reconciled
> transactions happened "in the past".
>
> The starting balance can be off due to a few reasons:
>
> 1) incorrect reconciliation in the past
> 2) a reconciled transaction was accidentally marked unreconciled
> 3) a reconciled transaction's value was accidentally changed
> 4) a reconciled transaction was accidentally deleted.
>
> #2 is easy to solve; just ignore the starting balance, reconcile to the
> correct ending balance, and be sure to include the accidentally
> unreconciled transaction in the new reconciliation.
>
> For #1, it depends on what was done incorrectly.
>
> #3 and #4 are harder to solve because you need to figure out what got
> changed.
>
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