[moneydance] Opening balance is wrong

[Barbara Needham]

George Yanos on 6/13/06 said

>* Fuzzy Fox <fox at foxtaur.com> [2006-06-13 10:08:40 -0500]:
>
>> Rodney Brown <rod at conollybrown.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I reconciled my checking account last month, and it worked fine.
>> > I went to reconcile it again this month, and the opening balance is
>> > different from last month's closing balance.  I don't know how it
>> > changed.  And there's no way to edit the amount.
>> 
>> The opening balance is always set to the Cleared Balance for the
>> account, which is the amount you get from adding up all the register
>> items marked as Cleared (check mark).  If your last reconcile was
>> correct, then the only thing that could change it is that the Cleared
>> status of some items was changed; maybe some new items were marked
>> Cleared, or some old items were unmarked.
>> 
>> Perhaps you should redo the old reconcile from the previous statement?
>> 
>
>Is there any simple way, once you finish a recondile and tell 
>Moneydance you are done, to go back and undo it.  For exmple,
>so you could try to figure out why the closing balance on 
>the last statement doesn't match the opening balance on this
>statement, at least doesn't agree with Moneydance's value?

The easiest way for me is first, to look and see if something got marked
cleared that should not have been. That sometimes will fix the whole
thing. Then I write down what the opening balance should be and kind of
unclear things until it comes out right. Of course it works better if you
go by a statement as to which ones to "unclear".


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Barbara Needham