[GNC] Help with reconcile menu

[davidcousens49 at gmail.com]

Martin,

The Starting balance is the net sum of all reconciled (marked with 'y' in the
reconciliation column) and credit entries for the account you are reconciling.

Identify whether the indicated starting balance is under or over what you expect
it to be from your external statement. This will tell you whether the error is a
transaction(s) which should have been reconciled but isn't or whether you are
looking for a transaction which shouldn't be reconciled but is. 

Wrongly entered dates on transactions in the current period are a common cause
of reconciliation problems. Also check there are no hidden sub-accounts - there
is an option for including sub-accounts in the reconcile dialog.

Examine the debit and credit panes of the reconciliation window for any
unchecked transaction with dates before the start date of the current
reconciliation.

If there are multiple errors of both types - in the words of a former PM of
Australia - Life wasn't meant to be easy.

David Cousens


On Sat, 2022-02-05 at 16:40 +0000, Martin Dupras wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm still relatively new to GnuCash, so I may be misunderstanding something.
> 
> I have an account for which I have entered several years of transactions
> (not as they happening, as an exercise to look at my expenses for the last
> three years.)
> 
> All of the transaction amounts on the account are correct; but somewhere
> along the way something happened which broke the reconciliation. What seems
> to happen is that whenever I try to reconcile, the ending balance is
> correct, but the opening balance is wrong.
> 
> The opening balance on the account is right, and it's the first transaction
> for the account. Yet, when I try to reconcile it, the dialogue window shows
> "Starting Balance: £1000.00".
> 
> I can't see an invisible transaction anywhere (all boxes ticked in the
> "status" tab of "Sort By").
> 
> Can anyone clarify how GnuCash figures out this £1000? If I knew where to
> look, I might be able to fix it.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> - martin
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