Re: Reconciling an account

2017-06-06 Thread David Carlson
I really hate to rain on your parade... Check your Edit>Preferences>Accounts>Reverse Balanced Accounts. I believe the default is labelled Credit, but that means Credit Card, Payable, Liability Equity and Income, and that is probably what is checked in your file. If that is so, then the balance

Re: Reconciling an account

2017-06-06 Thread Derek Atkins
That means your transactions are entered backwards. -derek -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity or typos. On June 6, 2017 7:36:25 PM EDT, EngineInstitute wrote: >Thanks for that hint David, I did check the running totals in the >register

Re: Reconciling an account

2017-06-06 Thread EngineInstitute
Thanks for that hint David, I did check the running totals in the register and I did not find anything but what I did was realize what the source of the problem is. This is a liability account. In the reconciliation window the funds in should create a decrease on the balance and the funds out an

Re: Reconciling an account

2017-06-06 Thread EngineInstitute
Yes, Mark. - China Blue -- View this message in context: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Reconciling-an-account-tp4691993p4692062.html Sent from the GnuCash - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: Reconciling an account

2017-06-06 Thread David Carlson
Ok, the next thing to do is to go into your register view and look at the running total next to each of the transactions that you show in your images, to see if the value was correctly added or subtracted by GnuCash. Also set the register view to Transaction Journal to see if there are any

Re: Reconciling an account

2017-06-06 Thread Mark Phillips
Is your opening balance for this account correct? Mark On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 2:20 PM, EngineInstitute wrote: > Yes I tried the manual way using the transaction report to check against > both > the Gnu reconciliation as well as the statement. Nothing is obvious. > I

Re: Reconciling an account

2017-06-06 Thread EngineInstitute
Yes I tried the manual way using the transaction report to check against both the Gnu reconciliation as well as the statement. Nothing is obvious. I also checked by applying the filter without the reconciled items and what came up are the items in the to be reconciled in the reconcile register.

Re: Reconciling an account

2017-06-06 Thread EngineInstitute
Mike, I did do it the old way eg: pen and paper and checked so I did not overlook transpositions by checking my total payments noted in Gnucash against the statement which agree as well as the credits. And indeed there are no outstanding amounts for 195.14 or 97.57. Since the statement and

Re: Reconciling an account

2017-06-06 Thread Colin Law
Have you tried the earlier suggestion of splitting the statement every few transactions and treating each group of three or four transactions as a separate statement and reconciling each group separately. Then you will tie the problem down to three or four so you should be able to see what is

Re: Reconciling an account

2017-06-06 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 6/5/2017 8:08 PM, EngineInstitute wrote: Colin, When this happens it should be a cake walk right? Not for me. I check off all of the credits and debits and compare their totals (reflected on the bottom) with the statement and everything is in order yet I am faced with a difference of