Re: [GNC] Reconciliation with a strange opening balance

2023-11-13 Thread David Carlson
If you remember that the reconciliation endting balance was correct in GnuCash fairly recently a process that will actually work would be to unreconcile all transaction splits after a given date, then re-reconciling each month after that date with your bank statements handy. To go back more than

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation with a strange opening balance

2023-11-13 Thread john
> On Nov 13, 2023, at 07:20, Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user > wrote: > > Hello, > > The recent discussion on reconciliation was helpful in trying to sort out > some anomalies I have. > > When I do the latest reconciliation of one of my accounts the opening balance > is 10,448.43 and gives

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation with a strange opening balance

2023-11-13 Thread David Carlson
One of several complications that you can run into when searching for a reconciliation error by using the reconciliation tool is that GnuCash leaves all previously reconciled split lines assigned to the target account reconciled. Thus if there are reconciled split lines dated after the

Re: [GNC] GC Best Practices for Investment Management

2023-11-13 Thread brad
Yes, I think it's very useful to have all of my financial data in GC, even tho it doesn't do everything that I want.  I haven't found the brokerage firms analysis tools useful.   They seem to be oriented toward the active investor & do their best to encourage trading. I'm an index fund, buy and

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation with a strange opening balance

2023-11-13 Thread Maf. King
On Monday, 13 November 2023 15:20:28 GMT Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user wrote: > > I set off to see where, but, in the course of my search, I tried to find > the number 10,443.43 in the account, as a baseline, but didn't find one. > > If I understand the process of reconciliation the number

[GNC] Reconciliation with a strange opening balance

2023-11-13 Thread Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user
Hello, The recent discussion on reconciliation was helpful in trying to sort out some anomalies I have. When I do the latest reconciliation of one of my accounts the opening balance is 10,448.43 and gives me an amount of inbalance which is way off. Following the advice in the recent posts

Re: [GNC] Old book not opening

2023-11-13 Thread Maf. King
On Monday, 13 November 2023 07:51:20 GMT Liz wrote: > On Sun, 12 Nov 2023 08:45:20 -0500 > > Ken Farley wrote: > > The files you want to open have names of the format " > Name>.gnucash". You need to find those files, without the .gcm or any > > Name> > > other suffix. > > A very old Gnucash