Reconciling an account

[David T.]

John, 
That sounds way more complicated than using the reconcile feature in Gnucash and following the guidance in the concept guide at chapter 4.4 & 5.4.
When I reconcile using this method, I click reconcile, I select the correct ending date, adjust the closing balance to match the statement. Then, I check off the debits and credits that match. Usually, when I have checked off what is in the statement, everything matches, and I am done. That is very straightforward. 
China, if you have done all this and things don't match, I would double check that there aren't errors in your transactions. 
David

 
 
  On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 8:07, John Walker<gonewest at westnet.com.au> wrote:   Hi China Blue

This particular issue baffled me for some time until I came up with a 
process that tells me what to expect.  My GnuAccount opening balance 
hardly ever is the starting balance in the relevant statement because 
inputs and outputs from previous statements as well as the current 
statement are not always fully accounted for (pardon the pun).

Here is the process:

*To reconcile Credit Card, GnuCash vs Bank:*

1.Copy LAST entry in Gnucash before entries that are being reconciled 
i.e. last reconciled entry

2.ADD New Transactions and Charges (not closing balance) from current 
bank statement

3.SUBTRACT payments/Refunds from bank statement

4.Result should be the same as LAST entry being currently reconciled in 
GnuCash

5.If there is a difference, subtract actual entry in GnuCash from 
calculated entry

6.This is the value that needs to be found – it should either be an 
incorrectly made entry or a missing/extra entry or a combination

7.Easy way to check is to print statement and hand tick on paper

Cheers
Phantom


On 4/06/2017 10:08 AM, Michael via gnucash-user wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jun 2017 15:51:01 -0700 (PDT)
> EngineInstitute <info at chinablueart.com> wrote:
>
>> I am having problems reconciling an account. The starting balance
>> agrees with the statement but ending balance does not. OK so I
>> changed the ending balance to the correct one in the initial dialog
>> box. I then went on to the next task of checking all of the debts and
>> credits. I did that and compared the sum of the total debt and credit
>> amounts against the statement so far ok. BUT the ending balance still
>> does not agree even there are no additional debts logs and one
>> outstanding credit and I cannot close the account for that period.
>> What am I missing?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
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> Did you adjust the closing date on the reconcile window to match your
> statement, rather than adjust the closing amount?  With the correct
> date, you should get the right amount, unless you have additional
> transactions or interest that have not been entered in gnucash.
> Otherwise not sure what else it could be.  Mike
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