[GNC] Change Reconcile Starting Balance

[Roger Miskowicz]

At the beginning of the account I did:

2017-12-31  Opening Balance:  1,691.19

Then with no other transactions I Reconciled with end date 2018-01-01 which
yielded the following result:

     Statement Date: 2018-01-01
    Starting Balance:    1,798.89
      Ending Balance:   1,691.19
Reconciled Balance:   1,798.89
              Difference:     -107.70

With only one entry shouldn't all the balances be identical?

Anyway, in this case I would like to be able to set the starting balance to
1,691.19 then I believe the reconcile might work as I expect?

Am I misunderstanding something?

On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 8:55 AM, D <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Only manually, a transaction at a time.
>
> What happens if you ignore the opening balance, enter the correct closing
> balance, and reconcile then?
>
> Often, if there's an inconsistency in the opening balance, you can proceed
> with reconciling, mark your current transactions and any earlier ones that
> were missed before (such as your opening balance transaction, say), and
> they balance out.
>
> David
>
> On June 30, 2018, at 8:23 AM, Roger Miskowicz <rmisko11 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Colin.
>
> Is there anyway I can clear all reconcilation of the the account and start
> again from scratch?
>
> Roger
>
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 8:15 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The starting balance in the reconcile start dialog will be the nett
> > balance of all reconciled transactions so far. Is this the first time
> > you have reconciled it?  If not then it should be the same as the
> > ending balance the last time you reconciled, unless you have editted a
> > reconciled transaction.
> >
> > Colin
> >
> > On 30 June 2018 at 13:08, Roger Miskowicz <rmisko11 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I am using GC Version 3.2 and trying to reconcile my Credit Card
> Account
> > > which I started at the beginning of the year with an opening balance.
> > >
> > > I would like to reconcile the account from the opening balance but I
> > don't
> > > know how to set the 'starting balance' which happens to be some number
> > that
> > > doesn't seem relevant.
> > >
> > > Can the 'starting balance' in 'reconcile' be manuallly set, and if so,
> > how?
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