Tom, The starting balance is calculated from the sum of all the recorded transaction split lines that are marked as reconciled for the account in question. This includes transactions dated after the selected reconciliation date. The other transaction split lines for those transactions are not considered unless and until those respective accounts are reconciled. Usually, the reconciliation of a particular account does not affect the reconciliation of other accounts unless a previously reconciled transaction split line is either accidentally or intentionally unreconciled or deleted from one of the other split accounts for that transaction. If there are missing transactions you will not be able to complete the reconciliation. Thus, the key is to not edit previously reconciled split lines for accounts other than the account that is being used to view that transaction. You should see a warning if you try to do that unless you have disabled that warning,
If your starting balance does not match the previous statement's ending balance, chances are you probably did something in another account that unreconciled some previously reconciled split line for the account that you are currently reconciling. If you are fanatic about having the reconciliation date recorded correctly for past transactions, then you do need to unreconcile all transactions that the bank statement(s) show as cleared after the date in question. Otherwise, just reconcile the stray transaction(s) in the current reconciliation period and don't worry about the starting balance. On Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM Tom Balazs <tom123onl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I got a bunch of credit card statements correctly reconciled, then > something got messed up. Maybe changes I made to transactions in the > checking account (such as payments made to pay down credit card balance) > messed up the credit card account. > > But now when I go to re-reconcile the credit card, the "Reconcile > Information" / "Starting Balance" is wrong. Where does that number come > from? > > After I reconcile a credit card statement, on the last day of that > statement period, I put a final transaction, for example on 10/14/24 "This > statement covered 9/15/24 - 10/14/24, the correct balance at this point is > $4,567.89." I do this to help me find the problem when balances get messed > up. But this doesn't help me with the "Starting Balance" problem. > > And if GnuCash has the Starting Balance wrong, I can confirm the > transactions that paid down the balance and transactions where I purchased > items, but GnuCash (correctly?) won't let me mark the statement period as > reconciled. > > I guess the Starting Balance is wrong because, while I may be going back to > reconcile a Feb-Mar statement, there are Mar-Apr, and May-Jun transactions > that are reconciled (which therefore don't even show up in the reconcile > window). > > Would I have to go to my ledger and manually un-check all the Mar-Apr, > May-Jun, and Jun-Jul transactions which are marked "Y" reconciled, just to > get a correct Starting Balance for Feb-Mar. And then later manually > re-check them all? > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > 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.
