On 9/2/19 7:49 am, Stephen M. Butler wrote:
On 2/8/19 5:12 AM, Christopher Lam wrote:
I've been experimenting and I think there's a logic error in your
thinking -- *during* reconciliation, until it's complete, all
'reconciled' transactions are labelled 'cleared'. Reconciled
transactions are, so to speak, gone and don't need to be shown on a
reconciliation report.
The reconciliation report should run just after reconciliation has
finished. Therefore, the just reconciled items will be marked as
reconciled.
I do agree in principle... however the internal logic of GnuCash
dictates that there is no such thing as "just reconciled items".
Consider a very busy bank account needing regular reconciliation... on
15-january you try reconcile but you've written and recorded a check for
$53.50 on 20-december which is still not cleared. This $53.50 will
remain unreconciled ("outstanding") causing a discrepancy of $53.50
between your 15-January bank statement, and your book. You reconcile,
skipping the $53.50 amount, and all's well.
On 15-february the bank statement arrives, and the $53.50 check has
cleared on 19-january. The $53.50 status changes from (n)unreconciled to
(c)cleared. Additionally all intermediate transactions are cleared. Your
15-february bank statement now matches your books.
According to my suggestions above logic the $53.50 will be counted in
the 'cleared' header, and be present in the reconciliation report. You
will afterwards then complete the reconciliation, which converts all
'c'leared to 'y'reconciled.
If we were to follow your logic, and if we run the reconciliation report
on 15-february, and if we *aim* to look for the 'just-reconciled' items,
we will definitely miss the $53.50 transaction dated 20-December because
it's now reconciled/"archived". Remember the transactions do *NOT* have
a 'reconciliation date' so we cannot look for them using a simple query.
Only accounts have a last-reconciliation-date. We will *not* find them
by querying 'reconciliation-date minus 1 day'.
Logically you're not wrong but GnuCash internal logic will dictate the
above process must be followed.
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