Re: Fixing opening balance for an incorrectly reconciled account

2017-05-16 Thread Andrew Gross
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 1:59 AM, David T. wrote: > . It very clearly explains this situation, and how to recover from it. I will study that again.Thank you! (As an observation, as much as I like GC -- the software -- I consider this mailing list to be one of its

Re: Fixing opening balance for an incorrectly reconciled account

2017-05-16 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Andrew,  Presumably, if you fixed a reconciled transaction, it should be right. If it is now right, then your ending balance should now be right, and you should see below.  If your ending balance is wrong, then you have ANOTHER problem in your account, and you should look for THAT error, rather

Re: Fixing opening balance for an incorrectly reconciled account

2017-05-15 Thread Dave H
Personally I would have have fixed up the incorrect already reconciled transaction and then re-run the reconciliation. Although I'm at a loss to understand how you already managed to reconcile the account if you had an incorrect transaction in the mix :-) If you re-reconciled after you fixed up

Re: Fixing opening balance for an incorrectly reconciled account

2017-05-15 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Andrew,  I reread your messages. You say you "fixed" a reconciled transaction, and now, you have to enter an extra transaction which you reversed afterward. Do I have that right?  OK, if you"fixed" a reconciled transaction, then presumably now, it is correct. First question: how did you get the

Re: Fixing opening balance for an incorrectly reconciled account

2017-05-15 Thread Maf. King
On Monday, 15 May 2017 09:11:07 BST Maf. King wrote: > > If you need to add a dummy txn to recreate something you have deleted, then > create one but be aware that it is a fudge and add explaining notes. Let me expand: if you create a transaction, but are not entirely sure what was deleted,

Re: Fixing opening balance for an incorrectly reconciled account

2017-05-15 Thread Maf. King
On Monday, 15 May 2017 02:19:18 BST Andrew Gross wrote: > Greetings -- have looked at a couple of old threads on reconciliation > issues that come close to this question, but not quite. In two of my > accounts (one asset; one liability) I committed a transgression; I > attempted to fix a

Re: Fixing opening balance for an incorrectly reconciled account

2017-05-14 Thread Andrew Gross
David, I used the wrong terminology -- I should have said "starting balance". I am looking at 4.4.1 of the documentation ( https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/txns-reconcile1.html) and I did create a dummy transaction and then reversed it after the reconciliation. Do you believe

Re: Fixing opening balance for an incorrectly reconciled account

2017-05-14 Thread Lincoln A Baxter
On Sun, 2017-05-14 at 21:19 -0400, Andrew Gross wrote: > Greetings -- have looked at a couple of old threads on reconciliation > issues that come close to this question, but not quite. In two of my > accounts (one asset; one liability) I committed a transgression; I > attempted to fix a reconciled

Re: Fixing opening balance for an incorrectly reconciled account

2017-05-14 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Andrew,  What do you mean, you can't fix the opening balance? If you are talking about your "Opening Balance" transaction, that is just another transaction, and of course you can edit that. (The recent discussion about reversing transactions was about a technicality for business books, and not