> On Jan 19, 2025, at 10:57, Brook Milligan <br...@nmsu.edu> 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?
Almost. The starting balance is the net of all reconciled splits in the account regardless of date. That’s why you have to unreconcile everything back to the last untainted transaction. You have the procedure correct. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ 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.
