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 reconciled transaction. Since then, I have to put in a > "fix" to balance each account. I add a bogus transaction; reconcile; and > then reverse the transaction. Essentially, I need to be able to reset the > opening balance in order to fix this. I know changing the opening balance > is not an option; is there an alternative so I can stop using the "bogus > transaction" method? >
Hi Andrew, The usual advice is to ignore the opening balance and reconcile to the most recent statement, including any older transactions that have become un- reconciled. When the final balance matches up, you can finish the reconcile. 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. I've looked through the text of chapter 4.4.1 that you mention, and I can't see any reference to reversing the dummy txn - which would clearly throw the reconcile off for next time. Can you point me to the paragraph that you saw, for context? HTH, Maf. _______________________________________________ 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.