[GNC] Wrong starting balance

Liz edodd at billiau.net
Fri Nov 20 19:49:49 EST 2020


On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 16:41:22 -0800
Jim DeLaHunt <list+gnucash at jdlh.com> wrote:

> Hello, Liz:
> 
> Are any of the transactions in that account reconciled? Do you have a 
> "starting balance" transaction in that account, perhaps created when
> you created the account?
> 
> The reconciliation model for GnuCash assumes that you start by 
> reconciling the earliest transactions, and move forward sequentially
> in time, reconciling bit by bit.  When you start a reconciliation,
> GnuCash adds up all the reconciled transactions for that account,
> regardless of date, and that becomes your starting balance.
> 
> Does this help?
> 
> Best regards,
>        —Jim DeLaHunt


No Jim

I know perfectly well how reconcile works.
I have not reconciled this account ever.
NO transactions are reconciled
The starting balance is $1.87

I am mystified about $6,300, so I did a find for that value on the
entire account tree and found nothing of that value.

Liz


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