[GNC] Starting balance of new account is not $0

[Rich James]

Hi, It's not Derek that asked the question, but me.

That being said, I tried again today to reconcile using my latest statement
and now I am able to reconcile correctly.  I honestly don't know why it was
so off yesterday.  I've used gnuCash for years and have never had the issue
I originally raised.  It has to be me doing something incorrectly, but I
have no idea what it was.  I checked myself multiple times before deciding
to post something about it.

I'm sorry to waste everyone's time.  Thanks,
Rich

On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 9:09 AM Phyllis Bruce <pobruce46 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Derek, when you *first came into Gnucash* did you enter current balances
> as equity?  Any balance on a credit card would be negative to equity.  Your
> cash accounts would be positive.  It's not too late to do that.  Enter the
> beginning balance on the statement you are trying to reconcile as equity
> for that account.  Use help to get to the tutorials and best practices.
>
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 8:21 AM Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, April 26, 2023 9:09 am, Rich James wrote:
>> > I'm trying to resolve some reconciliation issues and decided to go back
>> to
>> > my first statement from last year when I opened the account to establish
>> > that everything is balanced.  However, when I start to reconcile and put
>> > in
>> > the statement date and ending balance, the reconciliation window shows a
>> > Starting Balance of several hundred dollars instead of $0.  This gives
>> me
>> > an incorrect difference that I can't properly clear.
>> >
>> > Is there a known issue where this can occur?  Or can anyone suggest a
>> way
>> > to resolve this?  I'm seeing similar behavior with another account as
>> > well.
>>
>> You cannot go "back in time" to reconcile.  When you reconcile an account
>> at date X, you are reconciling from "the beginning of time" to date X.
>> You cannot then go back to a date earlier than X to (re)reconcile.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Rich
>>
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>> -derek
>>
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