Hi all,
I'm still learning how to use Skrooge properly, and I've got adoubt about reconcilation: assume I've imported operations for years 2013 and 2014, but I have the initial balance of an account only at 2014. How can I properly set the account initial balance and reconcile the operations?
What I've done so far is to compute the initial balance based on the difference of the 2014 initial balance and 2013 operations, but I was guessing if there is a smarter way to instrument skrooge to consider the balance.

Thanks

fluca1978 wrote:Hi all,
I'm still learning how to use Skrooge properly, and I've got adoubt about reconcilation: assume I've imported operations for years 2013 and 2014, but I have the initial balance of an account only at 2014. How can I properly set the account initial balance and reconcile the operations?
What I've done so far is to compute the initial balance based on the difference of the 2014 initial balance and 2013 operations, but I was guessing if there is a smarter way to instrument skrooge to consider the balance.

Thanks

You need to either set the "initial balance" for the account (on the accounts page) to an offsetting value or add a "fake" transaction of the same amount so your ending 2013/beginning 2014 balance reconciles. Adding a fake transaction during reconciliation dates back to the days of keeping a register on paper so you wouldn't have to erase and recalculate everything from the beginning. Since Skrooge (or any bookkeeping program) can do the recalculation for you, I'd opt for setting the initial balance so it reconciles.