[GNC] Wrong starting balance

D. sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 20 21:39:30 EST 2020


Not sure what the bug would be. You reconciled the transaction and then moved it. Should gnucash de-reconcile the entry? Personally, I don't really know; arguments could be made either way. 

One point to realize (and that others hinted at) is that the starting balance for the reconcile window is calculated by tallying *every* entry that is marked as reconciled-- regardless of the date of that entry. So, if you had an account opened in 2014, added reconciled transactions for 2020, and then asked to reconcile January 2014, the starting balance would include the reconciled 2020 transactions.  This is strange, but known, behavior of the reconcile functions in GnuCash. 

David T. 


-------- Original Message --------
From: Liz <edodd at billiau.net>
Sent: Fri Nov 20 21:23:18 EST 2020
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Wrong starting balance

On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 17:58:38 -0800
"Stephen M. Butler" <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:

> Try to reconcile another account that has never been reconciled.  If 
> that comes up with a non-zero number then create a new account and 
> attempt to reconcile with no entries.  If that comes up with a
> non-zero amount then you have found a bug.
> 
> What I'm wondering is if there are no entries to add up the module
> might not be handling the results correctly.


I tested that possibility, and it was negative. Fortunately I found
where the problem was, and it is related to the user.

I did not expect when I moved transactions from the bank account to a
holding account that the reconcile flag for the bank account would
remain.

It may be a bug.

Liz
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