Thank you Mr. Ralls. I will give it a try Sincerely , Carmelo Pagán
> On Dec 10, 2017, at 6:02 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > >> On Dec 10, 2017, at 2:01 PM, Carmelo Pagán <c.pa...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> >> Hello All, >> >> >> >> I’ve been trying to reconcile my Checking account, but I’m running into a >> problem. The reconcile window displays a negative amount as the opening >> balance. I didn’t enter an opening balance when creating the account. After >> obtaining my bank’s statement and gathering the open balance as stated. I >> went to enter an opening balance in the” Equity:Opening Balances” account >> and it accepted the entry just fine. I then checked the opening balance in >> my checking account and it displayed the opening balance as I entered in the >> equity account. When I go to reconcile the Checking account, the reconcile >> window displays my opening balance as a different amount than the one I >> entered, and there is no option (that I can find, and yes I did RTFM)to >> alter the opening Balance. >> >> >> >> Why doesn’t a user have the option to correct an opening balance in the >> reconcile window? This issues messes up every reconcile operation that >> follows. I hope you (the community) can help > > Could you clarify what you mean? The Reconcile Window (in English, anyway) > doesn't use the term "Opening Balance". It has "Starting Balance", "Ending > Balance", and "Reconciled Balance". The first is the balance of reconciled > transactions (including the account's opening balance *if that has been > reconciled*) at the beginning of the reconcile session, the second is the > balance that you entered in the little dialog box at the beginning of the > process; you should have entered the ending balance from your bank statement > in there, and the third starts off the same as starting balance and adjusts > as you mark new transactions reconciled in the reconcile window. When it > matches the ending balance the green Finished button lights up and you're > done. > > The starting balance can't be edited because it's calculated from what you've > already reconciled in the account. > > If this is your very first time reconciling this account the starting balance > should be 0 as there shouldn't be any reconciled transactions yet. If it's a > negative number that suggests that you might have reconciled some > transactions before creating the opening balance transaction; since it's not > reconciled yet it's not included in the starting balance. If that's the only > problem and you reconcile it--and only it--in the reconcile window the > reconciled balance should match the starting balance on your statement. > > Regards, > John Ralls > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
