A possibility that has not been mentioned yet is if there are transactions in more than one currency or involving securities. If so, there are many possible additional sources of discrepancy. Also, if the discrepancies suddenly appeared, say, after updating GnuCash to release 4.10, for example, that release is very new and may have 'bugs', known or unknown.
David Carlson On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 11:30 PM <davidcousen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rich > > Have been using GnuCash for a similar period of time and have not noticed > any > reconciliation problems (other than those reported as bugs on the list - > any > that are are generally fixed pretty quickly) up to v4.9, particulaarly in > recent > versions. Haven't yet done a reconciliation with 4.10. > > Anytime I have had a problem it has usually been a transposition, date > errors > and or missing transaction from the reconciliation period and different > ordering > in GnuCash and in the banks record leading to me missing a transaction. > Scheduled transactions if you have them might have different values from > the > bank's as might interest calculations if you calculate them yourself. I > have had > problems where the bank has a completely different order from my own > entries and > even the imported OFX entries because of clearance requirements for entry > into > the statement at the bank end. > > Have you tried checking the bank's balance by importing their opening and > closing balances and transactions into a spread sheet and summing them? > Unfortunately most pdfs will not import tables cleanly into most > spreadsheets > but I have resorted to entering the numbers by hand (individually cut and > paste) > to check. Only once have I discovered a bank error and they were most > apologetic. > > David Cousens > > On Mon, 2022-04-11 at 16:09 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Apr 2022, Gyle McCollam wrote: > > > > > These may not apply, but check that your reconciliation date is the > same > > > as the bank's. Also, check the dates of the transactions as GC shows > > > transaction past the reconciliation date, that you don't want to > > > reconcile. The ending balance that GC shows for the reconciliation can > be > > > changed, so put in the bank's balance and see if you get a zero > > > difference. > > > > Gyle, > > > > I check both the reconciliation date and that date's balance. There are > > discrepancies between the purchase date entered in GnuCash and when the > > transaction cleared the bank but those are immaterial. > > > > As an aside, I've used GnuCash for more than two decades, starting in > 1997. > > These large, sporatic discrepancies appeared only a few years ago, long > > after I moved my business and personal accounts to my current bank. I did > > catch the bank several years ago for charging me twice for the same > Amazon > > purchase and my banker had that quickly fixed. That was the only obvious > > error I've seen. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > > ----- > > 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 > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
