incorrect starting balance in reconcile

[Dave H]

Sounds like you entered a transaction with a date prior to your last
reconciled date or perhaps even before the opening balance of the
particular account you're looking at.

Check the View >> Filter By... options to ensure you're seeing all the
transactions in the account you're trying to unreconcile.

Cheers Dave H.

On 22 March 2018 at 05:22, darrylctx <darrylctx at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to reconcile a Bank account.
> Everything has been working fine since I opened the account, but recently I
> tried to reconcile a statement, and the starting balance of the reconcile
> is
> incorrect.
> At the end of every statement, I put in a trxn with 0 value and the correct
> ending balance in the description so that I can quickly check the ledger.
> The starting balance had always matched the correct balance for the account
> on the next reconcile.  This time it did not.
> After reading through a lot of posts concerning incorrect starting
> balances,
> I decided to unreconcile all the trxns in the account and re-reconcile.
> After un-reconciling back the account open, when I try to reconcile the
> first trxn (amount = 0), the starting balance in the reconcile is not zero.
> There are no trxns before this one trxn I am trying to reconcile.
>
> HOW CAN THIS BE?
>
> It appears that GNU Cash is keeping a reconciled balance in the file that
> is
> no longer correct.
>
> I can fix this with an entry to balance the starting balance and make a
> note
> that it is because of a bug in GNUCash, but this is very bad, as if anyone
> ever looks at the books, they will ask the legitimate question:
>
> Can I trust a program that requires adjusting entries because of bugs?
>
> Once all txns in an account are unreconciled, it should be possible to
> reset
> the starting balance for the account to the correct starting balance.
>
> Based on all the related posts I've seen, this appears to be an ongoing
> problem.
>
> Help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
>
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