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

[David T.]

> On Jan 28, 2019, at 7:28 PM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
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> David,
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> I understand perfectly what you are saying. My point was I read the post to be a confusion in terms. I understood the OP to mean ‘opening balance’ to mean the opening balance transaction in the account, *not* the ’starting balance’ of the reconciliation. In fact, Gnucash uses the term ’Starting Balance’ in the reconciliation dialogs, not ‘Opening Balance’.
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Indeed, terminology. To my mind, when I create an account, it is empty. Thus, a zero balance. Then, I create an opening balance entry, which is a transaction that will need to be reconciled. So, a clarification of terms. And, what I was calling “Opening Balance” below was really the reconcile “Starting Balance” which at some point should have been zero. We’ll have to figure out what the OP meant once they reply back!

David

>> On Jan 28, 2019, at 7:49 AM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Adrien,
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>>> On Jan 28, 2019, at 6:47 PM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
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>>> I could be wrong, but I read “opening balance” to mean the balance when the account was created in GnuCash, not the “starting balance” for the reconciliation. Certainly, when you first create an account, you have to tell GnuCash how much is already in the account if it pre-existed.
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>> Here’s the thing: when you create an account, it will have zero reconciled. So, if you haven’t reconciled your account before, the opening balance will always be zero. The screen shot clearly shows a non zero opening balance, meaning that some reconciliation has already taken place.
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