[GNC] Wrong starting balance

David Carlson david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 22 00:51:01 EST 2020


Liz

I would suggest copying that entire message into a bug report.  Especially
be sure to include that you had said "Do not tell me again this session
that I am changing a
reconciled transaction" as that may be the key to the puzzle. The
developers can figure out which details don't matter and which are
important.  If they cannot reproduce the issue they will ask for more
information, so it speeds things up to be very detailed the first time.
Also include that the transactions were spawned from scheduled
transactions, in case that makes a difference, even though they were not
reconciled until some time later.  If you remember which account register
you were working in (X, Y, Z, Tax or perhaps General Journal) when you made
the changes, that may also help.

After You have filed the bug report, if you think others may wish to follow
the progress, you can report the bug number in this list. I suspect that
you already know the drill!



On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 11:16 PM Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 17:30:08 -0600
> David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Liz:
> >
> > If I understand correctly, at some point intentionally or
> > unintentionally you were able to move a previously reconciled
> > transaction from one account to a different account without changing
> > the reconciliation status.  I just tried that in release 3.8 and I
> > received a warning that the reconciliation will be cancelled.
> >
> > Do you remember which release of GnuCash you were using at that time?
> >  I cannot test release 4.2 so I cannot check whether a new bug report
> > needs to be filed.
> >
> > I believe that user action is equivalent to my previous description of
> > changing the account GUID of a given split line which has a
> > reconciliation status of 'Y'.  If not, someone please enlighten me.
>
>
> Version: 4.2
> Build ID: 4.2+(2020-09-26)
> Finance::Quote: 1.47
>
> On Debian
>
> I was dealing with an intermediate account I made to help me follow a
> credit I have with the tax people.
>
> So I was moving payments made to the tax authority into an intermediate
> account, type Liability. They were moved from an Asset account, type
> Bank.
> They had been reconciled.
>
> So Tax has to be paid, counted in account X
> The liability to pay the tax is counted in account Y
> The payments are still made to the tax people from account Z
>
> Previously the system counted the tax in X and paid it from Y
> so instead of X <> Z
> the books now go X <> Y and Y <> Z
>
> To get the accounting correct I have had to move reconciled
> transactions from Z to Y (they were scheduled transactions).
> The change was made from X, a non-reconciled account
> I said "Do not tell me again this session that I am changing a
> reconciled transaction"
>
> When the transactions were reviewed in Y they remained reconciled, and
> the amounts were reconciled in Y, which was inappropriate.
>
> How much of this needs to go in the bug report?
>
> Liz
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