[GNC] Reconciliation discrepancies

David T. sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 12 10:20:24 EDT 2022


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David


On April 12, 2022 5:25:51 AM PDT, "R. Victor Klassen" <rvklassen at gmail.com> wrote:
>I run into such issues once in every one or two blue moons.  The starting balance is off.
>I’ve reconciled successfully the previous month, but something somehow (dis)appeared in the meantime.  I assume it disappeared, although the symptoms could be generated by something appearing.
>
>I hope it’s more than a year old, and live with it.  Meaning I do a balance adjustment and move on.
>
>It’s disturbing, but the size of my file is such that I have no reasonable means of tracking down whatever may have happened.
>
>Possible that it’s user error, but unlikely.  Possible that it results from one of the periodic crashes I experience, or power failures, that appear to be fully recovered from at the time.  Pretty much impossible to reproduce.
>If it is due to user error, that would be an argument in favour of the ability to mark old transactions as read-only.  Yes I’m very aware that “read-only” can be worked around.  But when it’s about protecting one from oneself, that kind of read-only could be useful.  If it’s due to bit rot/power glitches/crash recovery, not so much.
>
>> On Apr 12, 2022, at 6:09 AM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, 11 Apr 2022 14:36:41 -0700 (PDT)
>> Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Every now and then one of my bank accounts doesn't reconcile because
>>> what the bank shows differs from what GnuCash shows. The amounts are
>>> significant. What puzzles me is that the previous month's balances
>>> (bank and GC) match and so do all the transactions. But, the end of
>>> month balances don't match.
>> 
>> Rich when I get into a mess, I do very small increments on the
>> reconcile. For example, just choosing a date about 10 transactions
>> down, or one week, and then I will go through very slowly, doing small
>> chunks. 
>> Assume this is one month, and I am doing weekly...
>> I find the bank's ending balance for 7th of month, put 7th of correct
>> month and the balance from the bank statement into the reconcile
>> dialogue, and check off that week's items from the bank statement. When
>> the residual is zero, I mark finished, and move forward to the 14th.
>> (Procedure loops)
>> 
>> By looking at such a small number of transactions it is possible to
>> find whatever the errors are.
>> I too have been on Gnucash for a couple of decades, but still found 4
>> errors in one file this March, payments not entered as received, and
>> digit transposition.
>> 
>> I hope you find what is happening and let us know.
>> 
>> liz
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