[moneydance] Opening balance is wrong

Stan stanf76180-mdnc at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 13 16:53:34 EDT 2006


On 6/13/2006 at 10:08 AM Fuzzy Fox wrote:

>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?

Deleting a cleared transaction would also affect the cleared balance (i.e.,
the reconciliation opening balance).

Stan



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