Re: 2.6.19: Accounts reconciled; trial balance has imbalance

2018-02-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, John Ralls wrote: Is the trial balance report in balance on 1 Jan 2017? John, Yes. Thank you for asking. Because I rarely look at the Accounts tab I was unaware that the Imbalance account was directly accessible until Mike pointed me to it Working from the Imbalance

Re: 2.6.19: Accounts reconciled; trial balance has imbalance

2018-02-14 Thread John Ralls
> On Feb 14, 2018, at 8:23 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Feb 2018, John Ralls wrote: > >> Try this: Set the Start of Adjusting/Closing on 1 Jan 2017 and the Date of >> Report on 30 June 2017. If it's in balance, change the report date to 30 >> September, otherwise to 31 March. If it's

Re: 2.6.19: Accounts reconciled; trial balance has imbalance

2018-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 13 Feb 2018, John Ralls wrote: Try this: Set the Start of Adjusting/Closing on 1 Jan 2017 and the Date of Report on 30 June 2017. If it's in balance, change the report date to 30 September, otherwise to 31 March. If it's now (or still) in balance change it again to halfway between the cu

Re: 2.6.19: Accounts reconciled; trial balance has imbalance

2018-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 13 Feb 2018, Adrien Monteleone wrote: If you’re using digest mode, I’d recommend turning it off. Adrian, I've never used digest mode for any mailing list. That makes it difficult to find a message of interest and to respond to it. I run my own MTA here (postfix) and have set mes

Re: 2.6.19: Accounts reconciled; trial balance has imbalance

2018-02-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Rich, If you’re using digest mode, I’d recommend turning it off. My experience has been it’s more trouble to maintain and sort through. The digest also seems to not be quite ‘regular’ in its delivery, either in number of messages, or in elapsed time. Replies will also seem to appear out of seq

Re: 2.6.19: Accounts reconciled; trial balance has imbalance

2018-02-13 Thread John Ralls
> On Feb 13, 2018, at 4:01 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Feb 2018, John Ralls wrote: > >> The trial balance report checks that the accounting equation (Assets + >> Income - Expenses = Liabilities + Equity) holds. > >> Running it on a single account makes no sense; it should be run on

Re: 2.6.19: Accounts reconciled; trial balance has imbalance

2018-02-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 13 Feb 2018, John Ralls wrote: The trial balance report checks that the accounting equation (Assets + Income - Expenses = Liabilities + Equity) holds. Running it on a single account makes no sense; it should be run on the whole book. John, It's run on the whole book; in the case

Re: 2.6.19: Accounts reconciled; trial balance has imbalance

2018-02-13 Thread John Ralls
> On Feb 13, 2018, at 3:35 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > The trial balance report for 2017 for a checking account shows a 4-figure > imbalance at the bottom, yet the account is properly reconciled with the > bank (through yesterday). How can this be? > > My accountant tells me that if the chec

Re: 2.6.19: Accounts reconciled; trial balance has imbalance

2018-02-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 13 Feb 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: The trial balance report for 2017 for a checking account shows a 4-figure imbalance at the bottom, yet the account is properly reconciled with the bank (through yesterday). How can this be? I apologize for posting to two threads on the same issue. It

2.6.19: Accounts reconciled; trial balance has imbalance

2018-02-13 Thread Rich Shepard
The trial balance report for 2017 for a checking account shows a 4-figure imbalance at the bottom, yet the account is properly reconciled with the bank (through yesterday). How can this be? My accountant tells me that if the checking account register transactions balance with expense accounts