[GNC] Reconcile Operation overrides User-entered Ending Balance

[Stephen M. Butler]

On 8/4/26 14:35, Tom Route36 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I came across what looks to me like a bug in Reconcile operations; but 
> before I post anything to Bugzilla I just want to run it by folks here 
> to see if this is a real bug, or if maybe it's just operator error on 
> my part.  Here's the deal.  (And you can scroll ahead to the 5th 
> paragraph if you don't want all the background details.)
>
> I get a credit card statement; and I want to reconcile it.  The 
> statement ending date is 7/27, and the statement ending balance is 
> $800.  I open up the account in GnuCash and hit the Reconcile button.  
> The Reconcile window pops up showing me a Statement Date of 7/25 with 
> an Ending Balance of $800.  So far, all is okay.  I know the Statement 
> Date in the Reconcile popup is an estimated date based on the previous 
> month, and the Reconcile Ending Balance is the balance of the account 
> as of that estimated date.  It's all good.
>
> Now I need to do the Reconcile operation.  So in that popup window, I 
> edit the Reconcile Statement Date changing it from 7/25 to 7/27; and I 
> see that the Reconcile Ending Balance changed from $800 to $950.  That 
> change in Ending Balance doesn't surprise me because I know that I had 
> a transaction on 7/27 for $150; and that transaction won't appear on 
> my credit card statement until the following month. However, GnuCash 
> figures that $150 is part of the current reconciliation period.  No 
> big deal though.  I just go and edit the Ending Balance from $950 back 
> to $800.  With my edits, both those fields in the Reconcile popup 
> window now match my credit card statement.  Again, everything looks fine.
>
> So I hit the OK button in the Reconcile popup window.  And that gets 
> me to the window where I can do the actual reconciliation - the 
> listing of Funds In and Funds Out.  And here's where I have a problem.
>
> In the lower right corner of that Funds In vs. Funds Out window is a 
> box with the reconciliation summary.  And even though it shows my 
> Statement Date correctly as 7/27, it ignores the edit that I made to 
> the Ending Balance.  It's back at $950, instead of the $800, which is 
> what I entered in the Reconcile popup window.  To me, that seems like 
> a bug.
>
> Anyway, I just wanted to put this out here for any comments, in case 
> there's some logical reason that I'm not aware of for GnuCash ignoring 
> or overriding my input in the Reconcile popup window. Let me know what 
> you think.

I just tried on my Ubuntu box with GnC 5.16.  Changes I made to the 
ending balance in the popup are reflected correctly in the next window.

Please specify the O/S on your system and which version of GnC you are 
using.  If on Mac may need to specify which flavor.