There should never be a need to create a 'false' entry to reconcile.
That's not how reconciliation works or what it is about.
I would suggest that if you do so, you'll keep having to do so, as you
have discovered. If your *closing* balances do not match after clearing
everything on the statement, then you have a mistake somewhere. The
solution is not to 'fudge' it, the solution is find and correct the mistake.
You can pause a reconciliation. So really, there is no need to
temporarily make it balance only to come back to fix it later. You'll
just compound the problem and/or kick it down the road.
Regards,
Adrien
On 12/7/25 3:15 PM, Richard Fochtmann via gnucash-user wrote:
This has happened a number of times.
I open a Reconcile popup and the date and starting balance are incorrect
and I'm unable to change it nor am I able to finish. There also seems to
be no way to deal with the remainder except to put in a false entry so
that I can finish reconciling. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
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