I've been using GnuCash for 12 years and have rarely had a reconcile discrepancy that could be blamed on the software (that was a date bug that reared its head a while back - quickly corrected). And the incidence of error on the bank's part has been extremely rare. Most occasions when I've encountered a sizable imbalance have been due to transactions I bungled by inadvertently entering them with a munged date. The faulty entry has eventually been found lurking back in time among previously balanced data. The GnuCash reconciliation process displays the beginning balance, and I've learned to first double check that number and the reconciliation date for correspondence with the bank statement when there is an imbalance. Searching the account for unreconciled transactions is a good way to reveal any junk entries that were inadvertently plunked down back in time.
In my experience, whenever you encounter something puzzling in GnuCash, the most likely cause is user error or a failure to RTFM. -----Original Message----- From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+john.layman=ieee....@gnucash.org> On Behalf Of Rich Shepard Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 8:49 AM To: gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Reconciliation discrepancies On Tue, 12 Apr 2022, Liz wrote: > By looking at such a small number of transactions it is possible to > find whatever the errors are. I too have been on Gnucash for a couple > of decades, but still found 4 errors in one file this March, payments > not entered as received, and digit transposition. Liz, The reason I started this thread is all transactions for the month match. No switched digits, no missing GnuCash transactions. And, now and then during the month I check the accounts on the bank's web site and marked GnuCash transactions as cleared as they appear on the bank's web page. > I hope you find what is happening and let us know. Based on everyone's response my assumption that it's something unknowable at the bank's side seems to be confirmed. Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ 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.
