[GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

[David Carlson]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2019, 11:50 AM stephen.m.butler51 <
stephen.m.butler51 at gmail.com wrote:

> My CC is set up as a straight liability account.  Reconciliation works
> fine with it.
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> -------- Original message --------From: john_mike <
> mikestillingfleet at fastmail.co.uk> Date: 1/19/19  09:38  (GMT-08:00) To:
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding
> up correctly - what to do??
> I have done several tests today.
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> I have set number various fake accounts with type credit card.
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> I all cases the reconciliation does not work. In every case the opening
> balance, ending balance, in's and outs have been correctly entered and very
> carefully checked. But in each case it was necessary to create a balancing
> entry to close out the reconciliation.
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> I have read up on the GNUcash help regarding reconciliation of a credit
> card
> account. I have followed this to the letter and it make no difference.
>
> I conclude that reconciling a credit card type account is not possible.
>
> I have therefore looked and moving all the transaction to a normal asset
> account where I know the reconciliation does work.
>
> I did some tests using the delete and move transaction to a new account -
> unfortunately this does not work as you are only allowed to move a credit
> card type to another credit card type.
>
> I am therefore starting the process of cut and paste to move from a credit
> card type to and asset type account. It is several 1000 entries so it is
> going to take a little while.
>
> It would be nice if someone could explain why reconciling a credit card
> type
> of account cannot be reconciled.
>
> I hope this post stops someone else falling into this trap.
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John_mike

The reconciliation process has been working fine for years on all four
basic account types.  Either your accounts are not set up correctly or you
are not using them correctly.

Many users, myself included, only reconcile bank accounts and credit card
accounts.

There have been some reports here that in releases 3.0 thru 3.4 the new
reconciliation report has some issues, but that is separate from the basic
process.


Perhaps you can include images of one of your ficticious credit card
accounts to show us what you consider wrong.


David C