Phyllis, The answer to your dilemma varies depending on how pedantic you are. If you don't mind transactions being marked as reconciled in the current month instead of the same month as the bank statement showing those transactions, then you can relax your procedure by ignoring the starting balance and "simply" making the final reconciled balance match the current statement.
To achieve a correct ending balance may still be a complicated process. If those two mysteriously unreconciled transactions cannot by themselves bring you to a correct ending balance there may be one or more previously reconciled transactions or transaction split lines completely missing or some reconciled transaction line erroneously appeared in the future. Hopefully, searching the entire file for a transaction line with a value equal to the remaining error might yield fruit. Knowing your own editing methods may also help you to figure out what sort of error that you might be more likely to make. If you have many multi-line transactions with lines in more than one of the accounts that you regularly reconcile, you have more chances to err. If you do a year-end closing, there is another chance for error. 0 I know that in my case I download and import transactions for several credit card accounts that contain payments from bank accounts which can throw off reconciled balances in those transfer accounts. Good luck! On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 12:39 PM Phyllis Bruce <[email protected]> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Phyllis Bruce <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 12:15 PM > Subject: mystery changes in my account > To: <[email protected]> > > > I was able to reconcile my account through January 2026 after great > difficulty - sooooo many transactions! I had the same opening and closing > balances as on my January statement in gnucash. > When I started the reconcile February however, I had a whole new set of > numbers on the reconciliation screen for opening and closing balances. > > When this has happened in the past, I have viewed unreconciled transactions > to see if they had a bearing on the problem. I found two transactions that > I reconciled in July of 24 and 25 that had mysteriously become > UNreconciled. Sadly, rereconciling those two transactions will not bring > me joyas their addition to the transactions to be reconciled does not bring > Gnucash into balance. > > I ran a reconciliation report (in gnucash) for January 2026 and the only > two transactions prior to the bank statement are mentioned above. > > Can anyone help me with this? It is not the first time I've had to deal > with mystery unreconciled transactions. > > Thanks, po > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] 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.
