[GNC] Reconciliation

[Jack Lockard]

I just tried that ending October 31, 2018 and then October 31, 2017 and the starting balance shown does not change.

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From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+jelockard=outlook.com at gnucash.org> On Behalf Of David Carlson
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2019 7:16 PM
To: David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Reconciliation

David Cousens,

This would be a great time to provide details on how to follow your suggestion.  Would it be sufficient to try setting previous reconcile dates into the reconcile dialog and see what values appear in the start and end balances?

If there are usually no reconciled transactions in the history on the reconcile dates, this might work, else it could get more complicated.

Then what? mark all following transactions as unreconciled, then re-reconcile each period again?  I think the thought of trying to do that is what makes us decide to just enter some sort of adjustment and forget about fixing history.  Unfortunately, that may cause errors in the running balance.

I hope the spell checker didn't change any of my comments.

David Carlson

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 4:36 PM David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
wrote:

> Jack,
>
> If both the starting balance and the ending balance do not agree with 
> the statement being reconciled against, then the reconciliation for 
> that period is actually invalid. The most likely reason for this to 
> occur is entry of a new transaction or deletion of a previously 
> reconciled transaction in a prior reconciliation period but there may 
> be more subtle problems. A transaction being entered incorrectly with 
> a date in the far past (mistyped date then saved) is another common 
> problem.  These unreconciled transactions usually come up in the 
> reconcilation window at the top of the panes if they are outside the 
> current reconciliation period. i don't know if Gnucash places a limit 
> on how far back it searches for unreconciled splits in the account 
> being reconciled though.
>
> The only solution is to go back to a point where the starting and 
> ending balances are both in agreement for the period being reconciled, 
> then reconcile forward again, making sure you get agreement of both 
> balances for each reconciliation period and fix any errors on the way through.
>
>
> David Cousens
>
>
>
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