Beginning and ending balances
In January I experienced a wrong beginning balance. How do I adjust it? I thought that I could change it but cannot figure it out.
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1 Posted by Dadhri Lee on 03 Mar, 2026 12:43 AM
In January I experienced a wrong beginning balance. How do I adjust it? I thought that I could change it but cannot figure it out.
2 Posted by dwg on 03 Mar, 2026 01:23 AM
You cannot change the beginning balance, it is also not recorded anywhere in the software.
When you start a reconciliation it is calculated from the data in the account, the formula is:
Initial Balance of the Account (+/-) Balance Adjustment + Cleared Deposits - Cleared Payments.
If it does not equal the last statement's closing balance it means that something has been changed in the past transactions.
The Reconciliation Knowledge Base paper talks about it further and where problems may be:
https://infinitekind.tenderapp.com/kb/register-and-transactions/reconciling