[GNC] reconcile problem?

[William Prescott]

Ditto to Derek's comment. I've been using Gnucash since 2011, somewhat regularly (I wish it was monhtly) balancing some 20 odd accounts, checking, savings, investment and credit cards. Whenever I've run into problems it always turned out to be something I screwed up. 

The only one I regularly have problems with is a cash account. Balancing it with the cash in my pockets is often off and that is clearly because I forget to record a cash expense.

Good luck,
Will

On 2022 Feb 23, at 02-23 08:51:57, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

HI,

On Wed, February 23, 2022 9:35 am, Paul Kinzelman wrote:
> I always balance my accounts every month. I used to use Quicken before
> they went to a rental model. Credit cards always balanced every month
> for me.
> 
> I've been using GC for several years now, and notice that I sometimes
> can't
> get cards to balance, I have to add an imbalance amount. Then this
> month, I noticed that a charge that was on this month's statement
> and not last month's statement was already marked as reconciled in GC.
> 
> Has anybody else noticed anything like this?
> 
> I don't even know how to track this kind of thing down, whether it's
> a bug, or I'm just getting older and senile. :-)

without being rude, I would suggest the latter.
How are you entering your transactions?
I always enter them manually (I NEVER import), and when I have a problem
balancing I find it's *ALMOST ALWAYS* an error on my part (especially with
my wife's card, because I don't get receipts from any online shopping she
does).  When entering I find I sometimes swap digits, which causes the
result to be off.
Every once in a while I have to cancel the reconcile and start over and
CAREFULLY watch the numbers to find where I entered something incorrectly.

If you find you're off, then check again -- most likely something was
entered wrong.  Either that or you modified an existing, reconciled
transaction (from the other side) which caused a break in that starting
balance.

> Ideas?
> 
> TIA!

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-derek

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