[GNC] Change Reconcile Starting Balance

[John Ralls]

Are there really no other transactions in the account besides the opening balance?

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Jun 30, 2018, at 7:00 AM, Roger Miskowicz <rmisko11 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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