Re: Reconciling an account

I seriously doubt you have found a bug. You probably have a transaction in GnuCash that does not match the bank's transaction. Digits are transposed, debits/credits are reversed, a transaction is in the wrong account (so not in the one you are reconciling) or something like that. I have had this

Re: Reconciling an account

Colin, I was thinking it was a version problem so I updated my software to make sure this was not the case. I love your suggestion. I did not know about the filter option. So I implemented it and cleared the reconciled items, then went back to the reconcile for that month and all agrees. Yeh for

Re: Reconciling an account

Wow, now we are getting some well detailed suggestions! I will add a couple: To quickly see if all previous transactions were really reconciled, select View > Filter by .> Status > uncheck Reconciled. If you don't have too many transactions with dates earlier than the bank cleared them, your

Re: Reconciling an account

Have you possibly entered a transaction the wrong way round (debit instead of credit or vise versa)? Then not noticed this when you tick it off? A suggestion earlier may be a good one if you still cannot find where you are going wrong. Draw lines on your statement after every, say, 4 entries.

Re: Reconciling an account

I misspoke. I meant the ending date. When I change the ending date to match the statement, that gives me the corresponding ending balance, every time, so I don't have to adjust it (assuming I've downloaded all the bank/CC transactions). My only "complaint" with the GnuCash reconciliation

Re: Reconciling an account

Hi Dean, On Mon, June 5, 2017 2:52 pm, Dean Gibson wrote: > Make sure that the reconciliation "beginning date" is the same as that > on your statement. A different date will create a different beginning > balance. This is not correct. You cannot change the beginning date. That date is the

Re: Reconciling an account

Have you checked against the possibility that GC isn’t the location of the error? If all the transactions on your statement match GC and you’ve checked off only those transactions in the reconciliation window, and the starting balances line up, then if the statement ending balance and GC don’t

Re: Reconciling an account

Make sure that the reconciliation "beginning date" is the same as that on your statement. A different date will create a different beginning balance. In any case, don't change the balance manually, unless you have a good reason to. On 2017-06-05 10:10, EngineInstitute wrote: John, What

Re: GNUCash value proposition

I started out with GnuCash casually and quickly found that approach was going to get me in trouble. (or at least make the effort useless) I now get receipts for everything possible and make it a point to enter them every day. (usually the next morning when my memory is fresh) It really is not

Re: Reconciling an account

I often have duplicate entries appear in transfer accounts when I import transactions resulting from imperfect matching during the import process. While these are usually easy to find and fix, sometimes I make an error and "fix" the wrong transaction or split. If a previously reconciled

Re: Reconciling an account

John, What baffles me is that I am balancing a credit card statement with little activity. It was reconciled correctly the prior month, so the starting balance for the following month is correct. In this case the initial reconcile box reflects a different balance, so I put in the new balance

Re: GNUCash value proposition

> If we all had the time and discipline to enter every transaction as it > was made, this is all true. Entering transactions as they are made is > very hard, and without a client that you carry with you it is virtually > impossible, even if one existed, it would be tedious. The fact is the > Bank

Re: GNUCash value proposition

I won’t tell you how much trouble I had years ago when a bank employee accidentally keyed in the dollar portion of a check twice, and instead of a $621 check, I got tagged for $621,621. Imagine my surprise when I saw that my account was overdrawn by some $600,000… David > On Jun 5, 2017, at

Re: GNUCash value proposition

On 5/06/2017 18:24, Colin Law wrote: On 5 June 2017 at 03:21, Lincoln A Baxter wrote: If we all had the time and discipline to enter every transaction as it was made, this is all true. Entering transactions as they are made is very hard, and without a client that you