[GNC] Need help reconciling

[Tommy Trussell]

Hi! Welcome to GnuCash!

On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 5:22 PM ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> I have been looking over the "Reconcile" on on eof m yu
> credit card account.  I just don understand what I am seeing.
>
> 1) do I put a "c" in the opening balance as I
> I has checked it?
>

When you reconcile, you want to use the Reconcile window. Here's the
specific part of the manual that deals with Credit Card accounts -- have a
glance through here

https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/cc-together1.html


> 2) I have put "C" in all the charges on my bank statement.
>

Most of the time you probably don't want to bother with the n or c flags in
the ledger -- let GnuCash do that for you, through the


> 3) I press the Reconcile button and I put in the closing data.
>
> It puts a weird entry into the the ledger that I don't understand
> and puts it on one of those weird  "you goofed" accounts.  And
> I get no "y"'s.
>
>
It sounds like you may have had GnuCash create a correcting entry INSTEAD
of finding the discrepancy in the data you've entered. When you have
everything verified against your statement, you shouldn't need to enter a
correcting entry, unless the problem preceded the month you are looking at.

Alternatively, are you looking at the same account? You would open the
Credit Card account (NOT the "General Ledger" because that gets confusing)
When you have the focus on the Credit Card account tab, choose Actions -->
Reconcile...


> I look at the doc and I have no clue what is going on.
>      https://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=3&lang=C&doc=help
>      https://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=3&lang=C&doc=guide
>
>
Even though you have spent some time on this, I recommend starting at least
at the beginning of the Credit Card chapter, and if it's still not
absolutely clear, go back to the beginning of the manual and make sure you
understand the examples. Maybe even create a couple of "Fake" accounts in
your data and enter the examples from the manual exactly as they are there.
If they're clearly labeled as fake you can easily delete them (and the
transactions in them) when you are through with them.

Good luck, and remember to respond to the list (as described below)


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