[Kmymoney] Reconcile Problems

[Patrick Gelin]

I notice during thé réconciliation process you havé to Check opération Wotherspoon date before Thatcher indicatif into réconciliation message box, elle jeté it looks ok but réconciliation is wrong.

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Le 13 août 2012 à 09:07, Thomas Baumgart <thb at net-bembel.de> a écrit :

> On Sunday 12 August 2012 19:46:00 Jack wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>>> However, my suggestion is to save a copy of your file in case of any
>>>> problems or if I'm wrong, but try the reconciliation ignoring the
>>>> starting balance.  One of the developers would have to say for
>>>> certain, but I don't believe the starting balance is actually used
>>>> in the reconciliation process.  I know I don't even look at the
>>>> starting balance when I do a reconciliation, which I do monthly on
>>>> two checking accounts, two savings accounts, and two credit card
>>>> accounts, all of which use OFX imports at least some of the time.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for that suggestion - ignoring the opening balance, the
>>> reconciliation went fine. Given the opening balance was wrong, I
>>> can't imagine how that could work, but it did. When I start
>>> reconciling for next month, the opening balance is correct again.
>> 
>> Thomas - can you confirm where the opening balance on the reconcile
>> dialog comes from (how is it calculated) and whether it is actually
>> used in the reconciliation process?  My memory from previous
>> discussions (when I was rewriting the manual section on this) is that
>> it is not used, and the actual reconciliation assumes that the previous
>> reconciliation balance correctly reflects all transactions marked as
>> reconciled - and is just therefore checking that adding all the cleared
>> transactions brings you to the new "ending" balance.
> 
> Hm, good question. This is so long ago that I had to check with the source. It 
> contains the following comment:
> 
>  // determine the beginning balance and ending balance based on the following
>  // forumulas:
>  //
>  // end balance   = current balance - sum(all non cleared transactions)
>  //                                 - sum(all cleared transactions posted
>  //                                        after statement date)
>  // start balance = end balance - sum(all cleared transactions
>  //                                        up to statement date)
> 
> The current balance in this is the total of all splits in an account 
> containing all entered transaction (incl. those with a future postdate but 
> excl. any scheduled transaction). The comment does not match the code to 100% 
> and I would write it today as follows:
> 
>  // determine the beginning balance and ending balance based on the following
>  // forumulas:
>  //
>  // end balance   = current balance - sum(all non reconciled transactions)
>  //                                 - sum(all transactions posted
>  //                                        after statement date)
>  // start balance = end balance - sum(all cleared transactions
>  //                                        up to statement date)
> 
> 'non reconciled' means no mark, not even cleared. Seeing this, a reconciled 
> transaction in the register between start date and end date might cause 
> trouble.
> 
> Oh, and to answer your question: yes, the opening balance is calculated each 
> time your run the reconciliation and even when you change the statement date 
> in that dialog.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Thomas Baumgart
> 
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