1. I don't worry about the starting balance. As long as the ending
balance is correct and the reconcile screen shows zero differences then
all is good.
2. Must reconcile the account in date order. You cannot do January
after you have done February.
3. As David explained, the starting balance is all reconciled lines in
that account regardless of date.
4. Sometimes I enter the default month/day but GnC supplies an earlier
year. Recently I've been getting a lot of 2024 entries when I'm doing
2025!!! I've learned to check the dates on the reconcile screen to catch
those before I finish the reconciliation. Yes, in most cases I have to
postpone and then correct the dates on the transactions before
restarting the reconciliation.
Stephen M Butler
stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com
kg...@arrl.net
253-350-0166
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On 3/5/25 08:14, Tom Balazs 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
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