I'm using KMyMoney v4.6.6 on Debian stable.
When I try to reconcile any checking accounts for the first time I cannot change the "Starting balance of this statement" which is set to zero and grayed out. I can only input the statement date and the "Ending balance of this statement".
Please help! how can I input the starting balance of the bank statement?

Please make sure your account does not contain any transactions dating prior to the account opening date. If the account opening date is not consistent, certain things will not be allowed.

zebulon wrote:Please make sure your account does not contain any transactions dating prior to the account opening date. If the account opening date is not consistent, certain things will not be allowed.

Thanks but unfortunately I did check and also created many test accounts. Even with no transactions at all starting balance is always grayed out at zero.

You are right, the field is always grayed out. Mine shows -15000; another one shows 0. It does not seem to stop you from continuing though?

In the reconciliation wizard the 'Starting balance of this statement' is the balance of the account at the last reconciliation or the opening balance of the account for the first reconciliation.

You must not change the opening balance of the account in the reconciliation wizard, so it is grayed out.
To change the opening balance of the account you will have to modify the account.

izento wrote:In the reconciliation wizard the 'Starting balance of this statement' is the balance of the account at the last reconciliation or the opening balance of the account for the first reconciliation.

No, it must be a bug. For a new account, first reconciliation, the 'Starting balance' is always set to zero, it doesn't take into account the opening balance as it should.
I also tried in a virtual machine, same problem, newly created account with 100 € starting balance. Reconciliation starts with 0 € and grayed out.

It might be a bug but has no effect on the result of the reconciliation.

So, keep cool

I finally found a fix for this annoying bug. When a new account is created and a starting balance set, before reconciling the account for the first time, you have to go to the ledger's account and change the status of the first transaction 'Opening Balances' to 'R' > Reconciled, by clicking twice on the C column.
Then you will find the amount of the starting balance in the reconciliation Wizard, instead of zero.