[GNC] Reconciliation Question

[Mark Phillips]

David,

I found the transactions because I was looking for them for another reason
unrelated to the reconciliation. I am sorry I went looking for them!

Mark

On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 6:47 PM, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
wrote:

> 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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