What you seem to be asking for is what happens when you click on Reconcile except that it is a window that opens not a report. This also has the advantage that you can go back to the account and add missed transactions. These will immediately appear in the reconciliation window.
Dale On 8/4/19 1:42 PM, Art Chimes wrote: > Thanks for the responses. > > Adrien asks, "why are you wanting this report?" Partly it's about > having another piece of a paper trail, but mainly because it's what > I've been doing in Quicken for a couple of decades. > > To be clear, this is just about my personal finances: checking > account, credit cards, and so on. Nothing that will be audited, nor > likely requested by an accountant. What I am used to > seeing in a reconciliation report is (a) a list of cleared > transactions for the period covered by the current statement, the one > I have just reconciled; and (b) a list of transactions that remain > uncleared after the reconciliation process; and (c) various totals and > summaries. > > Item (b) would ideally consist of transactions since the statement > closed, an uncashed check I wrote two months ago, etc. > > When I specify a date range, Gnucash wants to look at both the > transaction date AND the reconciliation date. So I am getting two > months' transactions in the report, one of which is just clutter and > will duplicate the prior month's reconciliation report. > > If my latest statement includes 15 transactions between July 1 and > July 31, when it closes, that time period will include the day (e.g. > July 3) that I reconcile the June statement. But the June transactions > are history; they have no business in the July reconciliation report. > I'm not an accountant for sure, but if there is a reason for including > in the report the June transactions *reconciled* in July along with > the actual July transactions, I don't see it. > > The suggestion that I filter for a date range (e.g. July 1-31) and for > reconciled transactions, then generate an Account Report would give me > a list of current reconciled transactions, but not the unreconciled > ones. (Yes, I could generate a separate report with a filter, but that > is an inelegant workaround, in my opinion.) > > Regarding Christopher's reference to "standard accounting practice," I > want to emphasize that I don't know what is standard, just what seems > logical, familiar, and useful to me. Nevertheless, I am going to > follow his suggestion and file a bug report suggesting an Enhancement > to the reconciliation report dialog. > > Thanks, > Art > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
