[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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