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 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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), the > starting balance did not change to the starting balance for that time > period. It is the starting balance for the current period. I continued with > the reconciliation and checked off the three transactions, but the account > won't balance because the starting balance is wrong. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks! > > Mark > > On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 12:46 PM, David T. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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, >> and everything is back. Nothing too difficult. >> >> David >> >> P.S. how in goodness did you discover that you were missing three >> transactions from 2015 that all balanced out? >> >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 15:37, David Carlson >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 tried >> that sort of thing in a couple of years, so my experience is very stale. >> >> Starting balances do not need to match your statements, as there is no way >> to view which month any particular transaction was actually reconciled to. >> >> David C >> >> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 11:57 AM Mark Phillips <[email protected] >> > >> wrote: >> >> > 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 credit for these >> three >> > deleted transactions. >> > >> > I assume to fix the problem, >> > >> > (1) I would re-enter the transactions, and then >> > (2) re-reconcile October 2015, >> > >> > and that would be it. >> > >> > I wanted to check with those more experienced in GnuCash to make sure I >> am >> > not missing an important step to get these transactions back into >> GnuCash >> > with the satisfying little "y" in the Reconciled column. >> > >> > Thanks! >> > >> > Mark >> > _______________________________________________ >> > gnucash-user mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > 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 >> [email protected] >> 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 [email protected] 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.
