Release 3.9 comes with a new method for calculating reconciliation starting balances.
Previously, the account reconciled balance was considered the starting balance. This includes any splits previously reconciled with an invalid (e.g. future) reconciliation statement date. >From 3.9 onwards, the starting balance is calculated by adding all account splits whose *previous *reconciled date the *current* reconciliation date. This means any past reconciliation with an invalid (ie future) reconciled date would be ignored. The benefit is to allow re-reconciliation of a past statement. So, anyone with difficulties reconciling an account with 3.9 onwards should check the account Reconciliation Report, Start Date = today, End Date = 31/12/9999 to seek these splits. To fix it manually, you can unreconcile them and re-reconcile with any past date or today. Or modify the XML/SQL to fix these dates. To prevent future issues there are several safeguards being planned for 3.10: 1. any reconciliation must have a statement date of TODAY + 1MONTH. This allows some leeway for users who wish to reconcile in advance, yet disallows reconciliation too far ahead. 2. a datafile with splits with reconciled_date in the future *may *be repaired; e.g. if reconciled_date > 1 month from today, then it is evidently an error and can be changed to an arbitrary old date eg 1/1/1970. This will allow them to be counted when calculating modern reconciled balances. I think 1 is acceptable. Any particular votes for 2? _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
