I don't get statements with numbers to use - my checkbooks are reconciled monthly to whatever the current online balance is, so what GnuCash does now is just what I need.
On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 8:27 AM Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com> wrote: > A bit tangential to the issue of reconciliation is that fundamentally IMV > reconciliation means to marry up (aka reconcile) the physical periodic > (monthly/quarterly/annually) bank statements *against* your own books which > carry the canonical data which hopefully supports your financial activity. > > Gnucash reconciliation only stores, for each reconciliation: > > - an account's last Reconciliation date > - each split's reconciliation status n/c/y, > - each split's reconciliation date (which is the same as the last > Reconciliation date). > > It doesn't store other info such as: starting balance, statement number; > and doesn't store the reconciled starting and ending balances. > > It *could* be transformed to store all these additional data: > > - statement ID number > - statement's start and ending date > - statement's start and ending balance > - list of splits identified within the statement > > And would be somewhat more robust (ie you could ask gnucash to display the > contents of the feb2014 statement), and we would potentially be able to > re-reconcile a previous statement (e.g. I deleted an old reconciled split > in error and wish to re-reconcile its statement) but this would require a > complete backward-incompatible upgrade in the internal data schema, there > doesn't seem to be a demand of it, nor manpower to implement it, and I > think it's simply overkill. > > Thus the reconciliation is currently limited to the state that exists > currently. > > E&OE > > On Mon, 13 Nov 2023, 11:21 pm Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user, < > gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > The recent discussion on reconciliation was helpful in trying to sort > > out some anomalies I have. > > > > When I do the latest reconciliation of one of my accounts the opening > > balance is 10,448.43 and gives me an amount of inbalance which is way > off. > > > > Following the advice in the recent posts I tried working backwards to > > see if I could find any errors. > > > > I got close to 0.00 from time to time and was satisfied enough to > > consider a balancing entry, but was intrigued on where the 'error' might > > have been. > > > > I set off to see where, but, in the course of my search, I tried to find > > the number 10,443.43 in the account, as a baseline, but didn't find one. > > > > If I understand the process of reconciliation the number should be > > somewhere in the account, should it not?? > > > > Just tell me I am barking up the wrong tree, if I am making an error. > > > > Finbar > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > ----- > > 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 > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- _________________________________ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
