[GNC] Reconciliation column in register

[Terry Carlson]

Thanks for all your help.  It gave me ideas to look for.  In this 
particular case, 2 transactions that should have been dereconciled 
weren't and they added up to the amount which explains the difference in 
the starting value.

After spending a month trying to get straightened out, I think I'm 
seeing, or not seeing things. ;-)

Terry

PS  To post to the mailing list, do I use the address 
gnucash-user at gnucash.org?  At this juncture, I can't get beyond the home 
page to look for that information.  The links don't work for me now.

On 8/26/2025 5:18 AM, sunfish62 at yahoo.com wrote:
> So you're saying that after selecting all the matching transactions in the reconcile process, you're off by that same discrepancy?
>
> The only way I can imagine that happening is that you have transactions that are marked reconciled in the amount that you are off that are not supposed to have been thusly marked.
>
> For your understanding, the starting balance is calculated by GnuCash using *every* transaction in the account that has been marked as reconciled. This includes transactions in the future as well as the past. That's why I asked originally if you might have duplicated the transactions.
>
> It's not clear to me then how you previously reconciled this account. It may be necessary for you to backtrack in the account to the last statement that DID balance, and work forward to find the error.
>
> Perhaps someone else has some better suggestions?
>
> ⁣David T.​
>
> On Aug 25, 2025, 11:43 PM, at 11:43 PM, Terry Carlson <st_carl at msn.com> wrote:
>> I don't see how the starting balance doesn't matter.  Ignoring the
>> starting balance, doesn't give me 0 in the "difference" line at the
>> bottom of the reconcile window.   It shows that I am off by the amount
>> of the correct starting balance and the arbitrary starting balance that
>>
>> comes up in the Reconcile Window.
>>
>>   Will this difference carry on forever?
>>
>> This is most frustrating for someone who has done this sort of thing
>> for
>> a long time.  It would make more sense to have some easy fixes for
>> those
>> who make a mistake.
>>
>> Terry
>>
>> On 8/25/2025 8:59 PM, sunfish62 at yahoo.com wrote:
>>> Ignore the starting balance. Enter the proper ending balance and see
>>> whether it balances.
>>>
>>> David T.
>>> On Aug 25, 2025, at 9:31 PM, Terry Carlson <st_carl at msn.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>      I did as you suggested and dereconciled back 2 statements.   Then
>> I
>>>      tried to rereconcile but the starting(which I can't change) and
>> ending
>>>      balances in the reconcile window are wrong and so I don't balance
>> when I
>>>      redo it.
>>>
>>>      What am I missing?  Is there a reconciliation report somewhere
>> for past
>>>      reconciliations that I need to get rid of?
>>>
>>>      Terry
>>>
>>>      On 8/24/2025 12:29 PM,sunfish62 at yahoo.com wrote:
>>>
>>>          Is it possible that the unreconciled transactions are
>>>          duplicates? Usually, the problem with de-reconciled
>>>          transactions results in errors on the starting balance. If it
>>>          is truly unclear what is going on, I would de-reconcile
>>>          everything back to before the July statement and go through
>>>          July and August fresh. ⁣David T.​ On Aug 24, 2025, 2:04 AM,
>> at
>>>          2:04 AM, Terry Carlson <st_carl at msn.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>              This month imported my data from Quicken 2017 into
>>>              GnuCash. After importing, I reconciled my CitiVisa for
>> the
>>>              statement ending July 4 and it balanced.  Now 2
>>>              transactions from that reconciliation are
>>>              unreconciled.  This is creating a problem in my CitiVisa
>>>              account. I tried reconciling my CitiVisa for the
>> statement
>>>              ending Aug 6 but apparently the 2 unreconciled
>>>              transactions from the July 4 statement are creating a
>>>              problem. They are giving me headaches trying to do this
>>>              reconciliation. It is taking the beginning balance (which
>>>              is one of the transactions that have become unreconciled)
>>>              and an ending balance that isn't correct.  I can change
>>>              the ending balance to what it should be but then I don't
>>>              balance.  I am off by the amount in the ending balance
>> for
>>>              July 4 statement.  That amountis the other transaction
>>>              that has become unreconciled. It seems to me that if I
>>>              could get those 2 transactions marked reconciled like
>> they
>>>              werr, then the Aug 6 statement should work. I know those
>>>              transactions were reconciled because I balanced but now
>>>              they are unreconciled. In Quicken, when a mistake like
>>>              this happened, I could manually mark a transaction
>>>              reconciled.  It seems like that is a problem in this
>>>              program.  How do I handle this? Terry Carlson
>>>             
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