The reconcile report is missing all the transactions from June 2006 (06/06…). -- Dave Reiser dbrei...@icloud.com
> On Apr 1, 2020, at 11:47 AM, Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Would you mind trying the Reconciliation Report. We're confirming that *all* > reconciled_dates column are reasonable. Please feel free to send the > resulting report privately. > > Account = Savings > Start Date = 1/1/1970 > End Date = today > > > On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 15:23, Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com > <mailto:christopher....@gmail.com>> wrote: > (snipped screenshot showing a very regular savings account with monthly > reconciled interest splits until 31.1.2020 and monthly cleared interest > splits afterwards). > > Apologies I cannot understand how/why the starting balance calculator would > not show the appropriate amount. I assume you're not including subaccounts in > your reconciliation. The 3.9 starting balance is calculated at > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/90d3e6c6721ffb3f7e53adfd8bbd2f1b6933cb3d/libgnucash/engine/Account.cpp#L3402 > > <https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/90d3e6c6721ffb3f7e53adfd8bbd2f1b6933cb3d/libgnucash/engine/Account.cpp#L3402> > -- > > Scan all (savings) account splits, if split's reconciled_status is 'y' and > the reconciled_date <= statement_date then accumulate its value. Note the > reconciled_date will be the statement_date for previous months' > reconciliations, therefore all splits from previous reconciliations should be > counted without fail. If you could create a dev environment I could offer a > repository with appropriate logging. Unfortunately I do not know how to > package a .dmg. > > Alternatively if you can install a custom report I can create a .scm file to > log a similar reconciled_balance accumulator. > > C >> On Apr 1, 2020, at 10:40 AM, Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com >> <mailto:christopher....@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Specifically interested in the register screenshot from 1-Jan-2020 onwards >> -- wish to verify balances/reconcile-status etc. Thank you. Regards >> Care to share a screenshot of your savings account register privately? >> Earlier splits are not needed. Thanks. >> >> On Wed, 1 Apr 2020, 10:06 pm David Reiser, <dbrei...@icloud.com >> <mailto:dbrei...@icloud.com>> wrote: >> I have no problem with (A), except maybe if you’re using the gnucash posting >> date. A reconciliation resolves transactions based on the bank’s posting >> date, not gnucash’s. If I don’t enter March 31, 2020 interest until April 1, >> I’m still going to enter it in my account as having occurred on 3/31. But >> even that distinction can’t be causing what I’m seeing. >> >> In my simplest case, my savings account was last reconciled based on the >> interest paid 1/31/2020. On 2/29 I received $0.96 in interest and on 3/31 I >> received $1.03 in interest. There were no other transactions during that >> time. I have no idea when I entered the February interest, but I did enter >> the March interest on 3/31/2020 (at least it was still 3/31 on the U.S. east >> coast). >> >> When I click Reconcile, in the Reconcile Information dialog, I get: >> Statement date 02/29/2020 >> Starting Balance $3024.39 (this amount was reconciled in gnucash 3.7) >> ending Balance $3025.36 (reasonable, since 3024.39 + 0.96 = 3025.35) >> >> Now if I click OK to get to the transaction check-off dialog, I get: >> >> Starting balance: 375.15 (What???) >> Ending Balance: 3025.36 (well, it remembered what I entered) >> Reconciled balance: 376.11 (well, it is 375.15 + 0.96 …) >> >> Difference: 2649.24 (the math is locally consistent, but the starting >> balance doesn’t represent anything in my register or what gnucash showed me >> on the prior screen) >> >>> On Apr 1, 2020, at 1:19 AM, Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com >>> <mailto:christopher....@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> This is due to https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797640 >>> <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797640> >>> >>> This change modifies the reconciliation starting balance calculator from >>> Account->reconciled_balance to account->reconciled_balance on statement >>> date. >>> >>> The reasoning for this change is with the observation: >>> >>> (A) if reconciliation is performed from a statement dated 31/01/2019, the >>> starting balance calculator should ignore transactions posted later than >>> 31/01/2019. >>> >>> (B) subsequent work https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/667 >>> <https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/667> aims to store past >>> reconciliation ending balances and statement date. As a result we can >>> re-reconcile any past statement. >>> >>> (C) subsequent work will allow a sanity-check type report (illustrated in >>> above PR) which will compare account reconciled balances at previous >>> statement dates, and highlight any discrepancy. >>> >>> There have been previous feature requests to store and retrieve reconciled >>> balances and reconciliation dates, and I believe it's possible and >>> reasonable. >>> >>> Having explained the rationale, the reasoning (A) may be incorrect -- >>> please file in bug 797640 how/why starting_balance should include >>> transactions posted after statement date. If reasoning (A) is invalid then >>> we will need to revert the change, which means (B) and (C) above cannot >>> happen. >>> >>> On Wed, 1 Apr 2020, 11:48 am David Reiser via gnucash-user, >>> <gnucash-u...@gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-u...@gnucash.org>> wrote: >>> My checking account reconciled fine. >>> Then I went to two savings accounts and got completely off-the-wall >>> results. When I first clicked the reconcile button, the dialog that comes >>> up has the correct starting balance and the correct proposed >>> to-be-reconciled balance. When I click OK to get to the transaction >>> check-off dialog, gnucash has completely changed the starting balance to a >>> much smaller number (and one that has never appeared in the account ledger) >>> and thus presents an out of balance total that cannot be reconciled with >>> the transactions that are in the account. _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
