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

[Finbar Mahon]

OK,

As I said, I started on 1.1.2018 with 'nothing' I entered the closing 
balance for 2017 for the a/c and started entering transactions.

Unfortunately, coming from Quicken, I didn't do any reconciliations 
until about December. But casually examining the entries from time to 
time they seemed 'ok' just a few centimes 'off' probably due to finger 
problems, as I had also experienced with Quicken and sorted them at year 
end.

The Opening Balance in the latest iteration of reconcile was what I 
showed in the screen grab a while back -

While the a/c entries starting entry shows the bank balance figure 
€3986.22 and the €5.117.09 ending balance tallies with the bank 
statement......

Aha, maybe there is another issue. When I do, as you suggested, View > 
Filter By > Status > Reconciled I get nothing!! even when I just chose 
'reconcile' or 'select all'

:-( thanks for the help :-)
:-)



On 27/01/2019 10:46, Colin Law wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 at 09:36, Finbar Mahon <mahon.finbar at neuf.fr 
> <mailto:mahon.finbar at neuf.fr>> wrote:
>
>     No, as I said in the original post, I started on 1.1.2018 with
>     GNU, so the first entry in this a/c should be the opening balance
>     for the a/c from the bank statement, €3986.22. The ending balance
>     is correct.
>
>
> Actually you still haven't stated it clearly.  The question is what 
> does the Opening Balance show when you reconcile?  If this is the 
> first time you have reconciled it then it should show zero (unless the 
> opening balance has been already reconciled).  If it is not zero then 
> that means some transactions have already been reconciled (possibly 
> accidentally).  If you go to the account and then View > Filter By > 
> Status > Reconciled then it should show you just the reconciled 
> transactions.  Clear the reconcile state on all these and you should 
> be good to start the reconcile with a starting balance of zero.  Then 
> the Opening Balance in the account should match the Starting Balance 
> on your bank statement so you can reconcile that one.
>
> Colin
>
>     Finbar
>
>     On 26/01/2019 18:12, Colin Law wrote:
>>     Do the starting and ending balances shown there match the ones on
>>     the bank statement you are reconciling against?
>>
>>     Colin
>>
>>     On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 at 11:51, Finbar Mahon <mahon.finbar at neuf.fr
>>     <mailto:mahon.finbar at neuf.fr>> wrote:
>>
>>         I don't understand where you are seeing the figures you describe.  Can
>>         you post a screenshot showing it?
>>
>>         This what I get at the bottom right hand side.
>>
>>