Reconciling an account

[David Carlson]

Wow, now we are getting some well detailed suggestions!

I will add a couple:  To quickly see if all previous transactions were
really reconciled, select View > Filter by .> Status > uncheck Reconciled.

If you don't have too many transactions with dates earlier than the bank
cleared them, your running balance should agree with the bank's running
balance, at least when there is a 'dry' spell.  If the difference
consistently goes back to the same value, that is a clue of the amount, ant
the first time you see that value would be the approximate date.

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 3:56 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have you possibly entered a transaction the wrong way round (debit
> instead of credit or vise versa)? Then not noticed this when you tick
> it off?
>
> A suggestion earlier may be a good one if you still cannot find where
> you are going wrong. Draw lines on your statement after every, say, 4
> entries. Then reconcile from the start to the first line by entering
> the balance from the statement at that time. If the first one
> reconciles ok then do the next, and so on till you find the error.
>
> Note that others suggesting that this may be due to changed earlier
> transactions and so on are wrong. If the starting balance on the
> statement agrees with the starting balance in the reconcile window
> then the error is to do with the transactions on the statement,
> nothing else.
>
> Colin
>
> On 5 June 2017 at 18:10, EngineInstitute <info at chinablueart.com> wrote:
> > John,
> >
> > What baffles me is that I am balancing a credit card statement with
> little
> > activity. It was reconciled correctly the prior month, so the starting
> > balance for the following month is correct.
> >
> > In this case the initial reconcile box reflects a different balance, so I
> > put in the new balance to reflect the statement. Usually if everything
> is in
> > order that number agrees with the statement. In this case it does not (I
> > thought this strange) so I corrected the number.
> >
> > I then took the normal steps and checked off the expenses (not many) and
> > payments as well as the interest against the statement. Yet, there is no
> > agreement.
> >
> > I double checked my work against the statement's payment amounts,
> purchase
> > amounts and interest charged to make sure that these sums add up to what
> was
> > in GnuCash. All agree yet the balance in GnuCash is off by hundreds of
> > dollars. Since all of the prior months sums are balanced, my data is
> correct
> > and there is no outstanding activity that might somehow affect the
> balance I
> > cannot figure out what to look for and how to resolve this weird problem.
> >
> > Note I have been doing bookkeeping for many years so knowing how to
> > reconcile a statement is not the problem. I am wondering if there is
> > something that I don't understand with how GnuCash manages the data.
> >
> >
> >
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