> On Mar 21, 2018, at 12:22 PM, darrylctx <darryl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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.
Nope. GnuCash calculates balances on the fly, starting from the first transaction in the account, at file open and every time you change something. Balances aren't written out. If you have a reconciled balance it's because there are reconciled splits in the account. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ 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.
