On the first clarification, the answer is no. The starting balance is calculated from ALL/ALL reconciled entries in the account-- past, present, and future.
David T. On Jan 19, 2025, 9:59 PM, at 9:59 PM, Brook Milligan via gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: >Thanks, John. For the benefit of me and everyone else, let me make >sure I get this correct as a procedure to follow. See questions below. > >> On Jan 18, 2025, at 21:20, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: >> >> There is no reconcile start date. There’s a statement date and that >sets the *default* ending balance for the reconcile and gets saved as >the “reconcile date” on each reconciled split. There’s also a starting >balance that is the balance of all of the reconciled splits in the >account. > >The starting balance is dynamically calculated as the sum of all >reconciled splits in the account up until the “reconcile date”? Is >that all correct? > >> The reconcile window won’t let you complete a reconcile if the >modified reconciled balance in the reconcile window doesn’t match the >number you’ entered in the reconcile information dialog. >> >> You can unreconcile splits by clicking the r in the column between >account and debit (or amount if it’s a non-currency commodity >register). If you haven’t quite gotten your head around debit and >credit, the debit column is the left of the two value columns. > >If I “unreconcile” a split, then the starting balance for >reconciliation would necessarily change (decrease) right? > >> So if you have a few splits from a past reconciliation whose errors >net out, you can note the reconciled balance, unreconcile the erroneous >splits, tell the reconcile info that the ending balance is the one that >you noted before changing the splits, then edit and re-reconcile the >splits with the correct values. >> >> But if the errors don’t net out and the balance you reconciled to the >first time is wrong you need to unreconcile every split back to that >statement and re-reconcile all of the statements in order. > >To be clear: (i) unreconcile back until just after the last transaction >that was correctly reconciled. If what I suggested above is correct, >this alone will reset the reconciliation status back to the last >correct reconciliation. (ii) Start reconciling from statements after >the last correctly reconciled one; this can be done in the normal way >as it was the first time through (but getting it right :). > >Is that all correct? > >Thanks for clarifying. > >Cheers, >Brook > >_______________________________________________ >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.
