[GNC] Reconciliation mystery - unreconciled transactions in a period that was reconciled.

[Rogier F. van Vlissingen]

Thanks for the feedback. This is obviously concerning, but a solution may
have been offered. I have been using an older version of gnucash (3.8)
because it is what my update manager in mint provides. I am now going to
switch to the latest version, and try to fix this.
It was only two months ago, just before the tax deadline, when I did the
entire year of 2020 in gnucash. I entered the data month by month, and when
the last reconciliation was done, I sent it to the tax preparer. The
problem is in my December bank account. I don't think I did anything wrong,
but, if I had so much as examined the reports before sending them in, I
would have noticed that the ending balance on the checking account was off
in the reports. As it was, I did not notice the discrepancy until I began
the reconciliation for January of 2021.
I think I may now redo the entire exercise in version 4.9, to see if that
fixes the problem. Stay tuned.




On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 11:11 PM Richard Gaede via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Rogier and David, I have had a situation several times where I have
> completed reconciliations, and then months later in a new reconciliation
> transactions show up from several years before as unreconciled. I have
> no idea how this occurs.
>
> As my accounting has no business connotations, I fudge it and just tick
> them off on the basis they have been previously reconciled.
>
> Any thoughts anyone on what my problem might be, or whether it has any
> relevance to these ongoing discussions?
>
>
> On 20/12/2021 09:28, davidcousens49 at gmail.com wrote:
> > Rogier,
> >
> > It would appear on the surface that somehow you did not reconcile the two
> > transactions which remained marked as "n" which means not cleared("c) or
> not
> > reconciled("y").  How ? Unfortunately without knowing exactly what you
> did
> > during the reconciliation process it will be hard for anyone to tell.
> Obvious
> > things are to check the dates on the two transactions to make sure they
> are in
> > the reconciliation period and check that any transactions after the end
> of the
> > reconciliation date are not marked with "y". A common error is entering
> the
> > wrong year when entering the transaction.  Any unreconciled transactions
> from
> > earlier periods should show up in the reconcilation window panes.
> >
> > That the balances add up with the two un reconciled transactions suggest
> opening
> > the reconciliation process again and seeing if the two unmarked
> transactions
> > appear in it.
> >
> > David Cousens
> >
> > On Sun, 2021-12-19 at 16:42 -0500, Rogier F. van Vlissingen wrote:
> >> A while ago, I set up a business in Gnucash after having some outrageous
> >> problems with QBO.
> >>
> >> Once I got going it all worked out OK, but it appears I may have made
> some
> >> mistakes in the end and I cannot comprehend how I might have done it or
> how
> >> to fix them.
> >>
> >> The primary tipoff was that I did all my reconciliations of three
> accounts
> >> and as it was, the bank account ended up with a $187.37 balance on
> >> 12/31/20, however the account register shows to transactions that are
> still
> >> showing "n" for unreconciled, and the balance at 12/31/20 shows $52.03
> and
> >> the two "n" transactions account for the difference, $135.34. But why do
> >> they show "n" and is the ending balance $52.03???
> >>
> >> I have not been able to figure out a way to fix this.
> >>
> >> Evidently, the result is a minor error in my final reports of 2020, and
> >> hence in my tax filing.
> >>
> >>
> >> <
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