[GNC] Strange behavior when reconciling credit card account, version 5.12

[Mike Carney]

On 8/8/25 8:47 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> It's always been the case that GnuCash guesses at the closing date and
> computes the ending balance based on transactions up to that date.  If you
> change the date, it will recompute the balance.  You can (and I always do)
> enter the balance into the field manually to set the correct ending
> balance.
> 
> Are you saying that if you manually enter an ending balance into the field
> and then continue, GnuCash ignores it?  If so, then that is a new (and
> broken) behavior.  The reconcile process should take whatever is input
> into that field as the ending balance, whether it is the computed value or
> a manually input value.

Yes, exactly this -- I entered a value in the Ending Balance field of 
the "Reconcile Information" dialog, and gnucash ignored this value. In 
my previous experience, gnucash always used the "Ending Balance" field, 
hence my confusion when the account wouldn't reconcile. Then I noticed 
that the Ending Balance field of the large Reconcile window didn't match 
what I entered. I cancelled the reconcile, and tried again -- same 
behavior. Then I changed the Statement Date in order to exclude the 
statement date transactions that weren't included in the statement in 
order to properly reconcile the account. Very strange -- I never saw 
this behavior before. Not sure if it matters, but I'm using fedora 42 + 
wayland + KDE.

Regards,
Mike

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -derek
> 
> On Fri, August 8, 2025 8:23 am, sunfish62--- via gnucash-user wrote:
>> I'm not in front of my computer right now, but I am pretty sure that's
>> always how it's been. Instead of changing the statement date, just
>> deselect the transactions that haven't cleared. That is the very
>> definition of the reconciliation process, after all.
>>
>> ⁣David T. ​
>>
>> On Aug 8, 2025, 6:55 AM, at 6:55 AM, Mike Carney <mwc at carneymisra.org>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Yesterday, I noticed that gnucash was ignoring the "Ending Balance"
>>> entry of the "Reconcile Information" dialog, and simply calculating an
>>> ending balance based upon the total of the transactions up to and
>>> including the statement date. This ended up including transactions on
>>> the statement date that hadn't cleared yet. In order to successfully
>>> reconcile the account, I had to set the statement date earlier in order
>>>
>>> to exclude these transactions.
>>>
>>> I've not seen this behavior before in 20 years of using gnucash. Is
>>> this
>>> a known problem?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mike
>>>
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