I am trying to reconcile a Bank account. Everything has been working fine since I opened the account, but recently I tried to reconcile a statement, and the starting balance of the reconcile is incorrect. At the end of every statement, I put in a trxn with 0 value and the correct ending balance in the description so that I can quickly check the ledger. The starting balance had always matched the correct balance for the account on the next reconcile. This time it did not. After reading through a lot of posts concerning incorrect starting balances, I decided to unreconcile all the trxns in the account and re-reconcile. After un-reconciling back the account open, when I try to reconcile the first trxn (amount = 0), the starting balance in the reconcile is not zero. There are no trxns before this one trxn I am trying to reconcile.
HOW CAN THIS BE? It appears that GNU Cash is keeping a reconciled balance in the file that is no longer correct. I can fix this with an entry to balance the starting balance and make a note that it is because of a bug in GNUCash, but this is very bad, as if anyone ever looks at the books, they will ask the legitimate question: Can I trust a program that requires adjusting entries because of bugs? Once all txns in an account are unreconciled, it should be possible to reset the starting balance for the account to the correct starting balance. Based on all the related posts I've seen, this appears to be an ongoing problem. Help would be appreciated. Thanks, -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ 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.
