I've worked with MS support on this and was told this is by design.
I'd like to see the field update with the difference as items are marked cleared.
Comments
Rather than closing/re-opening, have you tried "Process > Recalc G/L Balance"? This is how we get our difference to update. It doesn't solve your issue or automatic updating though.
Category: Financial Management
We have just released Wave 2 (Oct 1st 2019) with many improvements to the webclient. I cannot repro the issue you have described. Do you still have this problem?
Category: Financial Management
Business Central Team (administrator)
Thank you for this suggestion! Currently this is not on our roadmap. We are tracking this idea and if it gathers more votes and comments we will consider it in the future.
Best regards,
Business Central Team