[GNC] GNUCash beginner setup

[Adrien Monteleone]

By ‘opening balance’ do you mean in the account register (1st transaction) or when doing a reconciliation?

Regards,
Adrien

> On Apr 7, 2020 w15d98, at 10:14 AM, denz <denzil at mpi-sws.org> wrote:
> 
> Thanks David and Adrian. I have an update for you. 
> 
> I was able to get things working now and categorisation works better and
> closer to my desirable behaviour. The only difference between earlier and
> now was the time sequence on how I imported the transactions.Earlier, I
> imported the statements in a backward time sequence. In the sense, I
> uploaded Q1 2020 followed with Q4 2019, Q3 2019 and so on. Now, I do it as
> Q1 2016, Q2 2016 and so on. I notice a clear difference if I use the serial
> sequence rather than the backward one. 
> 
> Now, I have one final question. I have imported transactions of both Bank1
> (1400 transactions over 4 years) and Bank2 (80 transactions over 1 year).
> Both, the account balances match. I do see however, 4 imbalanced
> transactions from Bank1. How do I exactly resolve this? All these
> transactions belong to Expense accounts. I tried assigning them to my
> Expense Accounts but if I do so, the opening balance for Bank1 does not
> match and is off my the sum of the 4 imbalanced transactions viz. €94,38. I
> understand the double entry nature of book keeping but I wonder why these 4
> transactions stood out and if I could resolve these imbalances without any
> "hack".
> 
> Thank you for your time!
> 
> 
> 
> Details 
> 
> GNUCash Version 3.9
> macOS 10.15.4 (Catalina)