Reconciling an account

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

EngineInstitute <info at chinablueart.com> writes:

> Dave, 
> No worries about raining on my parade.
> I figured it was probably a preferences issue. I did check the account and

I don't think it's a preferences issue.

> it was marked income & expense not credit. So I changed it to credit. So
> that shows the balance correctly as a negative (which I overlooked). Also it
> is positioned correctly as a liability account and is not a sub account.

I don't understand this statement "positioned correctly as a liability
account and is not a sub account"??  Do you mean that you have this
listed as a Top Level Account???  That's.......  weird.

> But yes it still does not solve the problem because the reconciled amount
> now is simply a positive $195.14 difference.

Which again implies that you entered your transactions backwards.

> Agreed, indeed after I celebrated for a few moments I too realized that that
> could not be the solution since the prior month was balanced. 
> Well tomorrow is another day. I will attack it again then. 
> Thanks for your continued thoughts on this.

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-derek
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