This is a feature called balance assertions present in ledger-cli, another bookkeeping tool. GnuCash doesn't have it. However you can approximate it:
https://bit.ly/2mMAKmf On Wed, 2 Oct 2019, 12:28 armanschwarz, <armanschw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Suppose on July 1, 2019 I get a statement that my account balance is $100. > Since I know this is true and won't change in the future, I should be able > to tell GnuCash that this is the expected balance, and for some kind of > warning to appear if that condition is ever violated for the corresponding > account in GnuCash (kind of like a unit test). > > Looking at the documentation for Reconciliation, it seems like this that > feature more targeted at individual transactions rather than setting known > values for balances at given points in time. If I reconcile an account for > 12 months every month, and then stop reconciling it the year after, what's > stopping all of those historic balances from getting thrown out of whack? > Does GnuCash remember what the balances should be and prevent this? > > Also, if I accidentally enter a wrong date every 5% of the time, and I > accidentally reconcile them incorrectly 5% of the time, then for a large > number of transactions I'm virtually guaranteed to have my history broken, > whereas remembering statement balances would avoid this problem. > > > > -- > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html > _______________________________________________ > 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.
