closing accounts and unreconciled transactions

[Colin Law]

You could just adjust the opening balance accordingly and reconcile
that transaction so that the reconciled balance is at what it should
be.

Colin

On 8 January 2018 at 15:10, Jeff Abrahamson <jeff at p27.eu> wrote:
> In moving my accounts to gnucash, I see that I have some unreconciled
> accounts in my checking account.  To make it simple, suppose I have a
> reconciled balance of 1000 € and there's just one unreconciled transaction:
>
>     [credit: checking] 100 €  -->  [debit: expense:food]  (label: stuff)
>
> Is the right way to represent this (so that future reconciliations make
> sense) to set up the checking account with a balance (transfer to
> equity) of 1100 € and a 100 € transfer back?
>
>     [credit: equity] 1100 €   -->  [debit: checking]  (label: opening
>     balance)
>     [credit: checking] 100 €  -->  [debit: equity]  (label: stuff)
>
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