[Kmymoney] reconciling investment acct

[Jack]

On 2013.05.27 04:30, Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> I have IRA's with no brokerage acct.  I want to get the balances in  
> KMM to match the institution's.  So I did reconciliation and the  
> first statement came out to $0 difference.  Starting the second  
> month, however, I noticed the last month's ending balance is  
> incorrect so I made a boo boo somehow.  I can not find a way to re-do  
> that 1st month's reconciliation.  Is there a way to do that?  Can I  
> enter some sort of correction?

I'm pretty sure this issue has been discussed in the past on this  
mailing list (or else the developers list).  There is no way to "undo"  
a reconciliation, but as Alan implied, it is not really necessary.   
When the first reconciliation dialog pops up, the starting and ending  
balances are calculated from the account within KMM, and other that  
giving you a reference point, do not really play any further role in  
the process.  The starting balance is the balance based on all the  
transactions in the account already marked as reconciled.  The ending  
balance starts with that and also includes the transactions marked is  
cleared.  If that ending balance matches your statement, then when you  
finish the reconciliation, KMM changes all the cleared transactions to  
reconciled.

More directly to your message - if you finish a reconciliation and then  
determine you used the wrong ending balance, you can still fix it, but  
it sometimes takes some digging to figure out the problem.  Start by  
determining the difference between the ending/reconciled balance in  
KMM, and what it SHOULD be.  The easiest thing is if you find one  
transaction of that amount that you either didn't mark when you should  
have, or did mark when you should not have.

However, expanding on what Alan said, you can just start this month's  
reconciliation, and include the correction.  As long as you get the  
correct ending balance for this month, old issues with reconciliation  
don't really matter.  The only real record of a reconciliation in KMM  
is that it remembers the date of the most recent one, and the  
appropriate transactions are marked as reconcilied.

Jack