Martin, as. David pointed out, it counts every reconciled transaction, including future transactions. Perhaps there is a future reconcile d transaction.
On Sat, Feb 5, 2022, 11:53 AM D via gnucash-user <[email protected]> wrote: > The opening balance tallies every transaction that was previously > reconciled, regardless of date. The Guide notes that the starting balance > is less important than the closing balance. If the closing balance is > correct, proceed with your reconciliation and finish when the difference is > zero. > > On Feb 5, 2022, 11:41, at 11:41, Martin Dupras <[email protected]> > wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I'm still relatively new to GnuCash, so I may be misunderstanding > >something. > > > >I have an account for which I have entered several years of > >transactions > >(not as they happening, as an exercise to look at my expenses for the > >last > >three years.) > > > >All of the transaction amounts on the account are correct; but > >somewhere > >along the way something happened which broke the reconciliation. What > >seems > >to happen is that whenever I try to reconcile, the ending balance is > >correct, but the opening balance is wrong. > > > >The opening balance on the account is right, and it's the first > >transaction > >for the account. Yet, when I try to reconcile it, the dialogue window > >shows > >"Starting Balance: £1000.00". > > > >I can't see an invisible transaction anywhere (all boxes ticked in the > >"status" tab of "Sort By"). > > > >Can anyone clarify how GnuCash figures out this £1000? If I knew where > >to > >look, I might be able to fix it. > > > >Thanks! > > > >- martin > >_______________________________________________ > >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.
