OK, I figured out how to reconcile the accounts. The account had no
activity in August 2018, so I just reconciled August so the starting
balance would be correct. I checked the three outstanding amounts, and it
reconciled.
Thanks for everyone's help!
Mark
On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 6:48 PM, Mark
David,
I found the transactions because I was looking for them for another reason
unrelated to the reconciliation. I am sorry I went looking for them!
Mark
On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 6:47 PM, Mark Phillips
wrote:
> David,
>
> It didn't work. I entered the transactions for the correct date, and
David,
It didn't work. I entered the transactions for the correct date, and tried
to reconcile the account. However, the starting balance was wrong, so the
account would not reconcile. For some reason when I entered the statement
date (far in the past for the month I entered the transactions),
Assuming that everything else is reconciled, all you really need to do is add
the missing transactions and re-reconcile. Ignore the starting balance, and
enter the same closing balance as your last statement. Those three items will
appear in the reconciliation window, you check them off,
Mark,
I suggest trying your proposed fix on a test copy of your datafile. You
may find that you also need to re-reconcile other months or "indulge" in
some creative temporary offsetting transactions to get August or September
reconciliations to end with the correct ending balance. I have not
I was reconciling my bank statement for August 2018 the other day, and
everything balanced. Yeah!!
However, I also discovered that three transactions were inadvertently
deleted from October 2015 - two debits and one credit. Everything balances
because magically, the sum of the debits equals the
