Hi, It's not Derek that asked the question, but me. That being said, I tried again today to reconcile using my latest statement and now I am able to reconcile correctly. I honestly don't know why it was so off yesterday. I've used gnuCash for years and have never had the issue I originally raised. It has to be me doing something incorrectly, but I have no idea what it was. I checked myself multiple times before deciding to post something about it.
I'm sorry to waste everyone's time. Thanks, Rich On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 9:09 AM Phyllis Bruce <pobruc...@gmail.com> 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. > > 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. >> > _______________________________________________ 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.
