[GNC] Reconciliation

[Adrien Monteleone]

I think it shouldn’t under normal use/circumstances.

But if you later entered/edited transactions with a date prior to 9/30, then that *might* cause this. GnuCash will look to see what the balance was on 9/30 and that will now be different then it was when you reconciled. As long as the last reconciliation was correct (you marked all transactions in GnuCash that also appeared on your statement, and there were no missing transactions in GnuCash) then there shouldn’t be any worry as that pre-dated transaction (or multiples) were not part of the original data from the bank anyway. (they hadn’t cleared yet)

If you aren’t either editing, adding or deleting transactions with a date prior to the last reconciliation, then the last closing balance *should* be the next starting balance.

There might be other causes, but I can’t think of any.

Maybe someone who’s familiar with the code where that starting balance is derived from can shed some light.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Nov 21, 2019 w47d325, at 6:23 PM, Jack Lockard <JELockard at outlook.com> wrote:
> 
> Here is what does not make any sense to me.
> 
> When I reconciled September's statement the beginning balance in GNUcash did not match the bank statement. I went on and completed the reconciliation process and when finished, the closing balance in GNUcash and the bank statement did match. For discussion purposes lets say the closing balance was $2,200. When I initiated the reconciliation process for October the bank statement had a starting balance of $2,200 which was the closing balance of September's statement as it should be. However, the starting balance shown in GNUcash was now say $3,300. How can that change in account balance occur?
> 
> Jack