Reconciliation window: closing balance distorted and reconciliation date

[Jannick Asmus]

Hi James,

thanks for your input.

On 02.05.2008 11:27, James Kerr wrote:
> On Friday 02 May 2008, Jannick Asmus wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> the following problems occur after opening the reconciliation window:
>>
>> 1. Closing balance inappropriate when reconciliation date is before date
>> of advanced transactions already reconciled:

> I always type in the closing balance from the bank statement. I think that's 
> what you're supposed to do. There will often be a difference between the 
> date transactions are recorded by the bank and the date you record them in 
> gnucash.

That's correct with regard to the bank account. Here I get the current 
balance with the online banking module. I think this is better. But 
unfortunately this method does not apply to other accounts like tax 
liabilities.

So the problem is still open.

>> 2. The default date is not the current date - _sometimes_. Does GC store
>> the date when it was manually changed? If so how can GC "forget" this
>> information?
> 
> In my experience it assumes that the statement date is one month on from the 
> date of the last statement. (This will not always be the case, depending on 
> how your bank deals with weekends and holidays etc.) It only uses the 
> current date if the next "due" date is later than the current date.

Hmm, I am not sure whether my GC behaves like this. It seems that for 
some accounts there is a reconciliation date stored which is independent 
of any other date like the current date.

> Jim

Best wishes,
J.