Hi, As a starting point, do a search on the account for a value of 11,000. It might give you an idea of what has happened.
If the missing value is not showing up in the reconciliation window it implies that a previously reconciled item has been accidentally deleted. Look for large values (it may be a single entry or combination of one or two) in your paper statements and check against GNC. GNC is double entry so another account will also be affected. If it was a movement between assets it will unbalance a second account. If it is an expense account it will be more difficult to notice. While you continue to search, let GNC add a balancing entry and post it to the imbalance account. You can then adjust it later when you find what it is but the balancing entry will enable you to continue with your reconciliations. I have doubts that the issue is GNC. In my experience I have deleted an entry in an expense account or simply moved an entry (changed a date) and that unbalanced prior reconciliations but they usually show up in the reconciliation window. Deletion (accidental) looks to be the prime candidate in your situation. Geoff +33 6 22 93 00 53 +44 7770 58 48 38 > On 4 Oct 2024, at 06:04, Jim DeLaHunt <list+gnuc...@jdlh.com> wrote: > > Hello, John: > >> On 2024-09-30 10:45, John Dzielski wrote: >> Hi, >> I have been using GnuCash for many years. I am not a sophisticated >> user, and primarily use it to keep track of my checking account. I >> reconcile monthly, and once every few years I’m off by a few cents or >> dollars. Today I reconciled the account and I was off by 70.10. I >> unchecked every entry and stared at it for a while. I think I may have >> exited reconciling, but not completed. There were many c’s in the reconcile >> column. I stared at the reconciliation for a while and found that there >> were two entries for 70.10. I deleted one, and repeated the reconciliation. >> I am not off by over $11,000. I keep track of my Accounts.gnucash file >> with git, so I can recover the previous version from 2 weeks ago. When I >> open that file, I see no c’s in the reconcile column. When I repeat the >> reconciliation process, I am still getting an $11,000 error. It seems >> something is being remembered. I found some on-line threads that suggest >> that the previous balance is not correct, and that makes sense, but I don’t >> want to do something like that without some understanding of what happened. >> Can anybody tell me what might have happened and point me to a resource >> on how to fix it? Thank you, John. > > I have trouble with reconciliation sometimes also. So far it has been 100% > due to my own errors. Sometimes, I have had a hard time seeing my errors > because I kept misreading a number, or not noticing an extra entry, or not > noticing that something was debit instead of credit. So, I am happy to offer > some suggestions. I am afraid they may sound annoyingly like, "go back to > basics and be very deliberate". > > 1. Read again the /Tutorial and Concepts Guide/, section 2.9.4. > *Reconciliation* > <https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-guide/chapter_txns.html#txns-reconcile1>. > Be sure you understand exactly what GnuCash means by reconciliation. Are > there details in the Note: and Warning: paragraphs that help? > > 2. Read again the /GnuCash Manual/, section 4.5. *Reconcile Window* > <https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-manual/gui-reconcile.html>. Again, > be sure you understand that GnuCash means. > > 3. Remember that reconciliation is checking your records against the bank's > records. Are you doing reconciliation bank statement by bank statement? > > 4. Remember that GnuCash wants you to start reconciliation with your bank > account's very first statement, and proceed forward in time, without gaps. > GnuCash includes all the account's reconciled transactions since the > beginning of time in reconciliation's "previous balance". It sounds like you > have been very diligent. Have you been 100% diligent? An unreconciled > transaction before the beginning of the current bank statement's period can > mess everything up. > > 5. Be sure to check that the beginning balance of the GnuCash reconciliation > matches the beginning balance on the bank statement. If the opening balances > differ, the closing balances surely will also differ. > > 6. Be careful that each deposit into the bank account is matched to a GnuCash > transaction on the left side of the reconciliation window, and each > withdrawal is matched to the right side. If you have a $5,500 transaction > which is in GnuCash as a withdrawal but in the bank statement as a deposit, > that will add up to an $11,000 error. > > Does any of that help? > > Best regards, > —Jim DeLaHunt > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
