[GNC] Reconciliation Question

[Mark Phillips]

David,

It didn't work. I entered the transactions for the correct date, and tried
to reconcile the account. However, the starting balance was wrong, so the
account would not reconcile. For some reason when I entered the statement
date (far in the past for the month I entered the transactions), the
starting balance did not change to the starting balance for that time
period. It is the starting balance for the current period. I continued with
the reconciliation and checked off the three transactions, but the account
won't balance because the starting balance is wrong.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Mark

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 12:46 PM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Assuming that everything else is reconciled,  all you really need to do is
> add the missing transactions and re-reconcile. Ignore the starting balance,
> and enter the same closing balance as your last statement.  Those three
> items will appear in the reconciliation window,  you check them off,  and
> everything is back. Nothing too difficult.
>
> David
>
> P.S. how in goodness did you discover that you were missing three
> transactions from 2015 that all balanced out?
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 15:37, David Carlson
> <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark,
>
> I suggest trying your proposed fix on a test copy of your datafile.  You
> may find that you also need to re-reconcile other months or "indulge" in
> some creative temporary offsetting transactions to get August or September
> reconciliations to end with the correct ending balance.  I have not tried
> that sort of thing in a couple of years, so my experience is very stale.
>
> Starting balances do not need to match your statements, as there is no way
> to view which month any particular transaction was actually reconciled to.
>
> David C
>
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 11:57 AM Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
> wrote:
>
> > I was reconciling my bank statement for August 2018 the other day, and
> > everything balanced. Yeah!!
> >
> > However, I also discovered that three transactions were inadvertently
> > deleted from October 2015 - two debits and one credit. Everything
> balances
> > because magically, the sum of the debits equals the credit for these
> three
> > deleted transactions.
> >
> > I assume to fix the problem,
> >
> > (1) I would re-enter the transactions, and then
> > (2) re-reconcile October 2015,
> >
> > and that would be it.
> >
> > I wanted to check with those more experienced in GnuCash to make sure I
> am
> > not missing an important step to get these transactions back into GnuCash
> > with the satisfying little "y" in the Reconciled column.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Mark
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