For the last couple of months my "starting balance" when reconciling one particular account has been wrong, and it is unchangeable. It creates a difference when I'm done reconciling that account. I'm not sure what happened, I've gone back through statements from the past several months, going back to before the issue appeared, and can't find any errors. Maybe I just typoed the ending balance once and the problem now persists. Is there any way to manually change the "beginning balance" on this account so that I can eliminate the difference? Or maybe to "undo" the reconciliation status on this account for, say, the last six months so I can go back through and do it correctly?

Thank you all

--chriscrutch

The starting balance is calculated each time you start the reconciliation. I expect, that you have inadvertently modified your data that is causing this behavior. No problem, we just have to find it and correct and you're back on track. Here's how I would tackle this:

1. Open the account that you try to reconcile in the ledger view
2. Set the filter in the upper right corner of that screen to Not reconciled.
3. Now check if there are any transactions that show up with a date prior to your last reconciliation
4. If no, get back to us, If yes, right click on the transaction and select the Mark transaction as and set it to Reconciled. The transaction will disappear. Repeat if there are more transaction matching the criteria in 3. (I think you can select them all and do it in one go)
5. Set the filter back to Any status.
6. Start the reconciliation and check the starting balance.

Hope that helps.

Thanks for the reply. Filtering the transactions show none that are unreconciled before the statement date of the last reconciliation. Unfortunate, because that sounds like it would have been the easiest fix. What's the second easiest? Hahaha

--chriscrutch

No takers, huh?