[GNC] Reconciliation Question

[Mark Phillips]

OK, I figured out how to reconcile the accounts. The account had no
activity in August 2018, so I just reconciled August so the starting
balance would be correct. I checked the three outstanding amounts, and it
reconciled.

Thanks for everyone's help!

Mark

On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 6:48 PM, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
wrote:

> 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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