[GNC] Getting previous reconciliation closing balances?

[Adam Funk]

Hi,

The problem is that I can't figure out what the missing transaction
is!  I was hoping to be able to pin it down to one previous
statement.

Thanks,
Adam



On 2019-07-09, David Carlson wrote:

> Since there is no way to view the reconciliation dates of transactions and
> it rarely matters later, if at all, the easiest thing to do is to ignore
> the error in the starting balance as long as you have entered the missing
> transaction(s) and reconcile them in the current reconciliation to get to
> the correct reconciled balance.
>
> The much more difficult solution would be to try to mark all of last
> month's transactions as unreconciled and repeat last month's reconciliation
> before doing this month's reconciliation.
>
> I think the choice is easy for most users unless they have severe OCD.
>
> David Carlson
>
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2019, 7:48 AM Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, 9 July 2019 13:10:56 BST Adam Funk wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have somehow managed to miss a GBP10 subtraction from my current
>> > account (= American checking account), so I can't reconcile my latest
>> > statement.  To make matters worse, the opening balance in the
>> > reconciliation tool is GBP10 higher than the closing balance of last
>> > month's statement.  I can't find a discrepancy between my GC account
>> > and that statement, so I don't know how far back I made the mistake.
>> >
>> > Is there any way to get GnuCash to show me previous the opening or
>> > closing balances of older reconciliations, so I can pin down the
>> > monthly statement where I made the mistake?
>> >
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>> there's no way that I can think of to see previous reconcile start/end
>> balances.  If you have sufficient backup files, you could look at those
>> and see
>> if they are back in time.
>>
>> do you know the rough date of the payment you missed recording?
>>
>> I can think of a couple of ways through this, of varying degrees of
>> fudge...
>>
>> Maf.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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