> On Mar 11, 2026, at 22:20, Harold Hallikainen via gnucash-user > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, March 11, 2026 8:45 pm, Brook Milligan via gnucash-user wrote: > > It is quite common to have oustanding checks that have not yet cleared and > do not show on the statement (yet). When reconciling the account, you have > the statement starting balance (which is the ending balance from the > previous statement) and the statement ending balance. You then check off > all the deposits and checks (or other charges) that have cleared. The > reconciliation keeps track of the difference between the cleared balance > in GC and the statement ending balance. When reconciliation is complete, > the difference is zero, and you are done! You should not need to change > any dates. I always use the date the check is written and do not change it > after that.
Thanks for taking the time to write a helpful description (and to all the rest as well). This, of course, was operator error amplified by the discussion, which got me thinking off track. I do appreciate your thorough responses, which I hope will be helpful to others. Cheers, Brook _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
