Michael, Do you mean you do not start by setting the ending balance in the reconcile opening dialog to that from the statement that you are reconciling against?
Colin On 4 June 2017 at 12:29, Mike or Penny Novack <stepbystepf...@dialup4less.com> wrote: > On 6/3/2017 6:51 PM, EngineInstitute wrote: >> >> I am having problems reconciling an account. The starting balance agrees >> with >> the statement but ending balance does not. OK so I changed the ending >> balance to the correct one in the initial dialog box. I then went on to >> the >> next task of checking all of the debts and credits. I did that and >> compared >> the sum of the total debt and credit amounts against the statement so far >> ok. BUT the ending balance still does not agree even there are no >> additional >> debts logs and one outstanding credit and I cannot close the account for >> that period. What am I missing? >> >> Thanks. > > What kind of account are we talking about? Since you mention reconciling > against a statement is this a checking account? > > If so, have you ever reconciled a checkbook against bank statement in the > old fashioned days, statement against your check register? If not, you > likely have no clue what to look for. You do not start by "changing an > amount"! Using GnuCash: > > 1) Confirm that there is nothing in either Imbalance or Orphan. If there is, > correct that problem first. > 2) Look at the statement from the bank. Are there any transactions there > that have not been entered in GnuCash? << assuming that you can recognize > these as valid transactions -- otherwise contact your bank to find out what > these were.>> > 3) Are any checks still outstanding (you wrote them, entered them in > GnuCash, but not (yet) returned against your account at the bank. THAT is > why I referred to "old fashioned days" reconciling because you STILL have to > do this to get the same balance amounts. You EXPECT a difference in the > balances (you vs bank) for the sum of all uncleared checks. > > Michael D Novack > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
