Hi, On Wed, April 26, 2023 10:09 am, Phyllis Bruce wrote: > Derek, when you *first came into Gnucash* did you enter current balances > as > equity? Any balance on a credit card would be negative to equity. Your > cash accounts would be positive. It's not too late to do that. Enter the > beginning balance on the statement you are trying to reconcile as equity > for that account. Use help to get to the tutorials and best practices.
I think you meant to direct that to Rich, not to me. (For the record, yes, when I started my accounts in.. 2002.. I did indeed put in starting balances.) BUT, you must put them in prior to reconciling. And even so, the first time you reconcile you will get a starting balance of 0. -derek > On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 8:21 AM Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, April 26, 2023 9:09 am, Rich James wrote: >> > I'm trying to resolve some reconciliation issues and decided to go >> back >> to >> > my first statement from last year when I opened the account to >> establish >> > that everything is balanced. However, when I start to reconcile and >> put >> > in >> > the statement date and ending balance, the reconciliation window shows >> a >> > Starting Balance of several hundred dollars instead of $0. This gives >> me >> > an incorrect difference that I can't properly clear. >> > >> > Is there a known issue where this can occur? Or can anyone suggest a >> way >> > to resolve this? I'm seeing similar behavior with another account as >> > well. >> >> You cannot go "back in time" to reconcile. When you reconcile an >> account >> at date X, you are reconciling from "the beginning of time" to date X. >> You cannot then go back to a date earlier than X to (re)reconcile. >> >> Hope this helps, >> >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Rich >> >> > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> >> -derek >> >> -- >> Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 >> de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com >> Computer and Internet Security Consultant >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> > -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
