[GNC] reconcile problem?

[Paul Kinzelman]

The latter is certainly possible, but it's strange that this started with
gnucash, didn't happen with Quicken. But if nobody else has noticed
this, then maybe it is the latter. :-)

And I have NEVER connected it to my account, as you suggested,
I ALWAYS enter everything by hand.

Oh, and I'm using the Windows latest version.

A while ago, I remember seeing a number of transactions which were
marked as reconciled become unreconciled as well, and it balanced after
I checked them as reconciled again the next month.

The real kicker was the one item I noticed that came up reconciled
this month as tho I had done it last month. And I couldn't have done it
last month or else it would have been unbalanced. And the charge
was not on last month's statement.

But if nobody else has seen anything like this, maybe it is something
I'm doing. But it's strange that I never saw it with Quicken, thus my post.

On 2/23/2022 7:51 AM, Derek Atkins 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
>