Bo, If you still have copies of your bank statements you can review the register a nd compare the running balances to your statements to see if or when the balances do not match. If there are a few outstanding items at the end of a statement period they should account for any difference.
You probably entered one transaction at the beginning to set your original starting balance in the register. If you allowed Gnucash to automatically re balance your account at some point there may be additional transactions that do not match your statements which you will need to find and delete. In general it is ok to ignore a difference in the reconciliation starting balance from your bank statement if your running register balance matches except for outstanding items. Such a difference might come from an item that was entered with an earlier date to correct some previous error. David C On Tue, Jan 1, 2019, 11:21 PM Bo Laurent <b...@bolaurent.com wrote: > I am a new gnucash user; I am preparing my records to share with my > accountant for the first time (previously using Quicken for Mac). > > My checking account was balancing, for every statement from January 2018 to > Nov ember 2018, and I looked over a transaction report and changed quite a > few items. > > Now my checking account has a strange starting balance (tens of thousands > of dollars, when it should never exceed 10,000). I decided to start from > zero by re-balancing November 1, 2017 (there are no transactions earlier > than Dec 21 2017). But strangely, the starting balance shows $48K. How can > a gnucash show a non-zero starting balance for an account when the > reconciliation date is earlier than the earliest entry? > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > 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 gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
