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

[Mike Stillingfleet]

I absolutely cannot account for this. But I repeated my tests after your post. I set up another new dummy cc account and tested a reconciliation. It worked!!!

I then went back to my cc account. It still didn't work. 

I then set up another cc account and transferred a months worth of data from old to new and reconciled it. It worked!

I have now transferred a years worth a month at a time the new cc account reconciles. 

Just to prove i wasn't mad I then went back to the original account and tried a dummy reconciliation. It failed. So I have no clue as the why that account is messed up. But it is.

I have now moved 2 years worth of data over to the new account. It has taken about 10 hours but I am now back on track.

On Sat, Jan 19, 2019, at 5:48 PM, stephen.m.butler51 wrote:
> My CC is set up as a straight liability account. Reconciliation works fine with it.
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> 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.
> 
> I have set number various fake accounts with type credit card. 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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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 Mike Stillingfleet
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