[GNC] Reconciling Accounts, Month 6, but not Months 1-5?

[sunfish62 at yahoo.com]

Further to these answers, you could simply select the June statement, enter that closing balance listed when prompted, and start by selecting everything prior to that month's statement. Then continue reconciling June as normal. 

If the closing balance in GnuCash matches the statement balance when you've finished matching the transactions that are listed on the June statement, then your earlier books will have been reconciled as well (if they do not match, then you're back to working from the beginning to find the errors).

I often do this with investment accounts where there are mostly dividends to record. 

Note, of course, that there may be errors in the earlier transactions that don't reflect in the balance (errors where a transaction amount is right, but other elements are not come to mind). But, you've been trusting the bank statements thus far without verification, so maybe it's really not that big a deal? 

⁣David T. ​

On Nov 13, 2023, 5:16 AM, at 5:16 AM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>Derek answered your first question.
>
>To answer your last question,
>
>Yes, you can simply mark items as cleared if you know that is their
>status.
>
>When you are ready to do reconciliation from the beginning of your book
>
>*for that account* to whatever your first closing date might be, then 
>most of that work will be done for you and the process will just be a 
>matter of review and checking the math.
>
>Of course, there is no requirement you reconcile on a month-by-month 
>basis. You can certainly reconcile an entire year at once or more (or 
>less) if you like, as long as you know exactly what that means, and
>what 
>it is in fact, you are doing.
>
>Regards,
>Adrien
>
>On 11/12/23 5:06 PM, Tom Balazs wrote:
>> Is it possible to reconcile April-May if I have not reconciled
>March-April
>> or February-March?
>> 
>> I guess I'm asking because I used the GnuCash Reconcile featurer and
>it
>> appears to me that I can't. That seems strange to me. I just want
>GnuCash
>> to give me a kind of a worksheet where it shows me transactions
>between my
>> chosen BeginDate and EndDate. And it uses "Bank Said Balance Began
>At", and
>> "Bank Said Balance Ended At". I enter (or confirm) transactions. I
>can mark
>> them as cleared. And then there is "My Bookkeeping Says My Balance
>Ended
>> At" and that is compared to "Bank Said Balance Ended At".
>> 
>> What if in June I imported all transactions to date, but right now
>all I
>> can handle is confirming the May-June transactions.
>> What is the best way to confirm transactions. Should I just mark them
>as
>> "cleared"?
>
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