Alan, Your experience was strange. If it ever repeats, it would be interesting to see if it relates to a language or font issue or something completely different.
David Carlson On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 9:42 AM Alan A Holmes <gnuc...@alanaholmes.me.uk> wrote: > Just to say that I had a problem reconciling one of my accounts, my > Current Account / Cheque account, this morning. I did what I normally do, > i.e. obtain electronic statements up to today's date and then reconcile > based on the balance on the bank statement as of this morning. It ended up > being £0.78 out! > > I spend 10-15 minutes investigating, starting the reconcile from scratch, > checking each debit/credit to ensure that the amounts matched exactly, and > still the same problem. On the 3rd attempt it went and balanced exactly, no > problem. > > The difference between the 1st and 2nd attempts that failed and the third > attempt that worked is that on the 3rd attempt I typed in the ending > balance, whereas on the 1st and 2nd attempts I cut and pasted the ending > balance from the latest statement, a pdf document. The amount in the > "Ending Balance" box on the "Reconcile Information" window looked to be > exactly the same, but obviously wasn't. > > Thought I'd enter my twopenneth in case it may have a bearing on what > someone else has done. > > > Alan A Holmes > > -----Original Message----- > From: gnucash-user [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+gnucash= > alanaholmes.me...@gnucash.org] On Behalf Of Anna > Sent: 02 July 2019 14:03 > To: David Carlson > Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org; Derek Atkins > Subject: Re: [GNC] Unable to reconcile > > It was mentioned that this issue arose after an update - in fact, that it > was the first reconciliation since that update. > > On 01/07/2019 17:10:49, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote: > As others have also mentioned, they are not seeing the same issue that you > are, at least with the given details. While your last message does list > the transaction dates in detail, it does not mention other factors such as > whether this, for you, is a new issue in a recent update or whether > reconciling in GnuCash is a process that you may be trying for the first > time, or whether you have verified the other steps, including checking the > starting and ending balances. > > Now that release 3.6 is out, you (and others) can also check whether that > release behaves the same way. Historically, others have not seen your > issue, but you are correct that it should not be requiring that > transactions be dated on the cleared date, unless you are specifically > trying to match dates to the dates shown on your bank statement. For one > account in my data, I actually do try to do that. > > > David Carlson > > > On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 10:55 AM Anna <anna.trico...@gmail.com [mailto: > anna.trico...@gmail.com]> wrote: > > If you read my message, you will see that this is just what I did. > > As mentioned in my update, if a cheque is written on 23 May, for instance, > but not presented until 2nd June, and the reconciliation date is 31st May, > then with the new version of Gnucash the date of the cheque must be changed > to beyond the reconciliation period. > > Best > Anna > > On 28/06/2019 17:09:33, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com > [mailto:david.carlson....@gmail.com]> wrote: > Another way looking at this issue is while reconciling to be sure that all > transactions on the bank statement are checked and all transactions in the > statement period that have not cleared yet are not checked. Then the > reconciliation can be completed. There is no requirement for outstanding > transactions to be checked. > > > If, as you suggested, the reconciliation ending balance cannot be changed > to match the bank statement balance to complete the reconciliation thus > requiring all transactions to be checked, that would be a serious issue > requiring a big report. > > Please excuse my spell checker re-writes . I cannot be sure that it says > what I mean. > > David Carlson > > On Fri, Jun 28, 2019, 4:27 AM Anna <anna.trico...@gmail.com [mailto: > anna.trico...@gmail.com]> wrote: > > Yes, that's the first thing I checked. You'll see that my initial post > confirmed this. > > This is the first reconciliation since upgrading to a newer version. > > I've done some more investigation, and found that it is because one of the > transactions had been entered under an incorrect date. This new version > will not allow reconciliation until all transactions within the date span > are marked off, meaning that if a cheque is entered, the date will have to > be changed from the date it was written to the date it was presented. > > Regards > Daisy > On 27/06/2019 09:41:02, Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com [mailto: > de...@ihtfp.com]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, June 26, 2019 3:58 pm, Daisy wrote: > > I'm trying to reconcile current account. Opening and closing balances > > tally, as does reconciled balance, but I cannot finish the reconciliation > > because the cleared balance is different. Total paid in and total paid > out > > are correct. > > > > Have made sure that all transactions that should be reconciled are marked > > off. > > > > What is causing this discrepancy? > > Make sure your ending balance, as entered when you start the reconcile > process, matches your statement ending balance. 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