David T., et alia, Somewhere in the nether regions of my pea brain I have a recollection of a 'feature' to automatically add an adjustment transaction to bring a reconciliation into balance without finding the 'error'.
That was probably in one of the other programs that I used before I started using Gnucash, but it might be a feature that some GnuCash users might want. Of course this brings a risk that GnuCash might erroneously reconcile a few transactions that were correctly unposted by the financial institution, possibly because they were simply normal 'float' that is not cleared as of the statement date, but a savvy user could identify those transactions during the reconciliation. I think this idea 'floated' to the surface because at this moment I just happened to be halfway through reconciling a very troublesome statement from a credit card company that often fails to post transactions in a timely manner and commits other fiscal sins that cause normal accountants to tear their hair out. On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 8:54 AM David T. via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Both previous replies were on target-- but, I do wonder how you finished > the first reconciliation, since GnuCash won't activate the finish button > until the Difference value is zero. If the transaction was wrong, the > balance would be non-zero? > > David T. > > On Jun 25, 2023, 12:26 PM, at 12:26 PM, "Maf. King" <m...@chilwell.net> > wrote: > >Hi Gregory, > > > >welcome to the list and Gnucash. > > > > > >Just ignore that the starting balance is wrong, go through the > >reconcilliation > >as normal aiming for the correct ending balance. > > > >should sort itself out. > >HTH, > >Maf > > > > > >On Thursday, 22 June 2023 01:08:01 BST Gregory Donavon wrote: > >> I hope you can help me unwind an error I made after not following > >one of > >> the steps in a busybee post video on youtube: I transposed a couple > >of > >> numbers on one transaction, this resulted in there being a difference > >of a > >> few dollars. Rather than hitting "postpone," I hit "finished" with > >the plan > >> of coming back later to figure out the location of the error. When I > >> changed the transposed entry to the correct amount, that didn't > >correct the > >> problem because when I went back in to reconcile , the starting > >balance was > >> wrong and I could not change it or bring up the original > >reconciliation > >> page. Is there anything I can do - this is my first month using > >gnucash. > >> Any suggestions you have for reversing the transactions would be > >> appreciated. > >> > >> Thanks for your help, > >> Gregory Donavon > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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. > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ 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.
