[GNC] Reconciling, Starting Balance Problem, Problem Reconciling Transactions

[Steve Butler]

Is your starting balance higher or lower than expected?  Off by how much?
How far back is the running balance off?

Maybe you accidentally deleted an earlier reconciled transaction.  If you
had simply unreconciled a transaction it would show up in the window to be
checked off.

I doubt you added a transaction to the account for a much earlier date.  It
would so up in the reconciliation window such that you would see it and
realize what happened.

So tracking the running balance back in time should show about when it went
out of wack.

Good luck on tracking that down.

On Wed, Jan 1, 2025, 12:26 Tom Balazs <tom123online at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to reconcile a credit card statement from a few months back and
> it still doesn't reconcile, even though I've gone over all the transactions
> multiple times.
>
> But when I click Actions / Reconcile the "Reconcile Transactions" window
> opens.
> I see (maybe) the source of the problem in the "Starting Balance". I think
> the "starting balance" should simply be taken from the balance at the last
> properly reconciled transaction. But in my case the "starting balance" is
> not the balance at the last properly reconciled transaction. Why is this?
> Could it happen because in the past I marked some transactions as
> Reconciled, but they are not now (which shouldn't happen, I know).
>
> I'm not on the GnuCash user forum because I'm good at this finance stuff.
>
> Additional notes:
> So basically, sorting this out in my head
> The reconcile window takes
> - "Starting Balance" (taken from the latest properly reconciled
> transaction, should be the ending balance of the previous period, e.g.
> October 10)
> - Statement Date (the ending date of this period, e.g. November 10)
> - Transactions which occurred between the two (e.g. Oct 11 - Nov 10)
>
> Tom
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