Pete, I don't understand your request. During reconciliation, you need to enter the ending balance from your statement. If, at the end of the process of checking your transaction the computed balance does not match the entered balance, then the reconciliation will not complete.
Now, Gnucash gives you a /guess/ of what that balance is and automatically fills in that field. If you just use that directly then yes, reversed transactions can catch you off guard. So really the only suggestion I can see here is to empty out that text field so gnucash won't suggest an ending balance. But in reality, you just need to manually enter the correct ending balance from your statement and then you wont be able to reconcile if transactions are entered incorrectly. -derek On Wed, May 29, 2024 9:33 am, Peter Cuthbert via gnucash-user wrote: > > Dear Everybody > > Many thanks for your responses to my Reconciliation problem. > > I have been examining my accounts and have managed to find part of the > problem. A £10K transfer out of the bank account to a new saving > account became 'flipped' from a payment to a receipt. Looking at the > details I set up for the savings a/c I made the wrong choices so that it > was shown as an outgoing not an incoming. That clearly accounts for the > £20k of difference but where the other odds and ends that dribbled it > down to 19K came from I have no idea. > > In exasperation I have looked at some of the other account programs that > are out there on the Internet but it looks as if they are keen to simply > import one's bank statement. I cannot see how they would cope with > credit card payements other than as a single lump DD. That is no use to > me as I use the credit card as a payments card and need to analyse the > statements. Thus it looks as if I will have to wind the reconciliation > back transaction by transaction and get GNUCash corrected. > > So final thought for the GNUCash programmers. Please consider a 'roll > back' facility so that one can correct mistakes. Indeed an 'opening > balance' entry request for Reconciliations would be useful with a > warning message that the value one has entered is not what the system > holds. If that happened one would not go ahead with the reconciliation, > but go back and look for obvious mistakes. > > Best wishes > > Pete > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To: blake.hannaf...@gmail.com Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Sent: Tuesday, May 28th 2024, 21:40 > Subject: Re: [GNC] Reconciliation Roll Back (Peter Cuthbert) > Generally, I find that transactions ONLY get dereconciled due to an > action I have taken-- like changing some element of said transaction. > They don't just "get unreconciled"-- at least, not for me. > There was a short period of time where the app was very strict about > when a transaction was dereconciled, but that change was modified after > user feedback. I believe that recent versions only dereconcile a > transaction when you modify a material detail, like the amount or the > date. If you are having this as a longstanding problem, it would be > useful to everyone to figure out what is going on, so that the problem > can be addressed-- regardless of where the problem lies. Dereconciling > transactions is not a minor matter when it comes to accounting software. > David T. On May 28, 2024, 8:51 PM, at 8:51 PM, Blake Hannaford wrote: >>I find this has been a longstanding problem. Every once in a while, >>old >transactions get unreconciled. I always open GC the same way so > I'm >sure >I'm not opening backups. > >Blake Hannaford > >-- >>_______________________________________________ >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. > > > > Dr Peter Cuthbert > Creuddyn > Coedlan Y Plas > Llangawsai > Aberystwyth > Sir Ceredigion > SY23 1HJ > 01970 623 447 > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
