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 Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
