[GNC] Reconcile Info: Starting Balance

[Stephen M. Butler]

1.  I don't worry about the starting balance.  As long as the ending 
balance is correct and the reconcile screen shows zero differences then 
all is good.
2.  Must reconcile the account in date order.  You cannot do January 
after you have done February.
3.  As David explained, the starting balance is all reconciled lines in 
that account regardless of date.
4.  Sometimes I enter the default month/day but GnC supplies an earlier 
year.  Recently I've been getting a lot of 2024 entries when I'm doing 
2025!!! I've learned to check the dates on the reconcile screen to catch 
those before I finish the reconciliation.  Yes, in most cases I have to 
postpone and then correct the dates on the transactions before 
restarting the reconciliation.

Stephen M Butler
Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com
kg7je at arrl.net
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On 3/5/25 08:14, Tom Balazs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got a bunch of credit card statements correctly reconciled, then
> something got messed up. Maybe changes I made to transactions in the
> checking account (such as payments made to pay down credit card balance)
> messed up the credit card account.
>
> But now when I go to re-reconcile the credit card, the "Reconcile
> Information" / "Starting Balance" is wrong. Where does that number come
> from?
>
> After I reconcile a credit card statement, on the last day of that
> statement period, I put a final transaction, for example on 10/14/24 "This
> statement covered 9/15/24 - 10/14/24, the correct balance at this point is
> $4,567.89." I do this to help me find the problem when balances get messed
> up. But this doesn't help me with the "Starting Balance" problem.
>
> And if GnuCash has the Starting Balance wrong, I can confirm the
> transactions that paid down the balance and transactions where I purchased
> items, but GnuCash (correctly?) won't let me mark the statement period as
> reconciled.
>
> I guess the Starting Balance is wrong because, while I may be going back to
> reconcile a Feb-Mar statement, there are Mar-Apr, and May-Jun transactions
> that are reconciled (which therefore don't even show up in the reconcile
> window).
>
> Would I have to go to my ledger and manually un-check all the Mar-Apr,
> May-Jun, and Jun-Jul transactions which are marked "Y" reconciled, just to
> get a correct Starting Balance for Feb-Mar. And then later manually
> re-check them all?
>
> Tom
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