[GNC] Reconciliation error - how should I correct?

[Dr. David Kirkby]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2023 at 19:46, R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Normally, people 'reconcile' their records to the financial institution,
> marking the ones on which they agree as 'reconciled'.
>
> If everything went right, the accounts should balance, leaving the
> transactions that the bank doesn't know about... regardless of date.
>

I was probably interpreting this

https://cvs.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-guide/txns-reconcile1.html

incorrectly, where it says

“
Warning

It is important to understand that reconciliation is done for a given date,
and when you reconcile an account based on a statement from a given date,
you are reconciling *all transactions prior to that date*. Therefore, if
you add or modify transactions that predate your last reconciliation, your
*reconciled* balances will be thrown off.”

As far as I am aware, the transaction took place  in June. So to add the
entry to GnuCash I needed to add a transaction that occurred prior to the
last reconciliation.

I note that bit of the documentation starts cvs. Google found me that, but
I think the latest documentation doesn’t say quite the same thing.

Dave
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