Transaction Reconciliation

[Dustin Henning]

For the record, clearing/checking transactions in reconcile is not most
easily done with mouse clicks.  It is most easily done with the spacebar and
arrow keys.  While the option would be easier still, the spacebar is also
the easiest way to check the transactions.  As is natural (and once
complained about on the transaction register), hitting space on one entry
takes you down to the next, so you need to work from the top, but entries
can be checked rather quickly this way even if the option allows you to
start with them all unchecked.
	Dustin

-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user-bounces+the00dustin=gmx.net at gnucash.org
[mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+the00dustin=gmx.net at gnucash.org] On Behalf Of
David Carlson
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 04:21
To: Liz; gnucash-user at gnucash.org; David T.
Subject: Re: Transaction Reconciliation

Stop the presses!  I just noticed that there is an option under
Edit:Preferences:Register: Reconciling to 'Check cleared transactions'.  I
suspect that un-checking this option would be even easier than doing it
individually for every 'c' transaction when reconciling.

David C 

--- On Tue, 10/30/12, David Carlson <carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

From: David Carlson <carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: Transaction Reconciliation
To: "Liz" <edodd at billiau.net>, "gnucash-user at gnucash.org"
<gnucash-user at gnucash.org>, "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2012, 3:07 AM

Liz,

Now I just checked the reconciliation process using release 2.4.11 on one of
my computers and found that the the 'c' transactions show up pre-checked as
they do for David T.  However, I vaguely recall having an issue similar to
yours a very long time ago.  Are you using a recent release?  Is the problem
the missing transactions that are neither manually entered nor downloaded
yet?

Or is it the fact that they are pre-checked on the screen when they are not
checked yet on your paper statement?  If that is the issue, I can
understand.  Another way that you could quickly address that issue would be
to un-check those pre-checked transactions as your first step in
reconciliation.  That would be the equivalent of changing the 'c's back to
'n's.  Of course, this is most easily done with mouse clicks, which was the
issue that the OP had, because he, like many of us, does not like to use a
mouse.  

Sometimes I think that the problem that so many of us have with the mouse is
that it is the wrong size for our hands and carpal tunnel is literally just
a mouse click away.

I have changed my way of thinking about downloaded transactions.  I now
consider the download to be a form of pre-reconciliation.  This is why I am
so careful to get the download correct, so I can believe that the 'c'
transactions do not need to be checked again during reconciliation. By the
time I get around to the monthly reconciliation, all the food and gasoline
purchases are charged to the correct expense accounts and not to
'Imbalance'. The final bank account balance is the true proof of the
pudding.

David C

--- On Tue, 10/30/12, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Transaction Reconciliation
To: "Liz" <edodd at billiau.net>, "gnucash-user at gnucash.org"
<gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2012, 1:00 AM

Interesting. When I reconcile, the 'c' transactions show up, pre-checked for
me. Are you sure they don't display?

David



________________________________
 From: Liz <edodd at billiau.net>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Cc: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: Transaction Reconciliation
 
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:37:02 -0700 (PDT) "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> As for your first use case, I don't really see why you'd need to 
> change the R status on a manually-entered transaction; in my 
> experience, the primary difference this makes is to pre-check a 
> transaction in the (above-mentioned) reconciliation window. However, 
> it is a simple matter in that window to mark such a transaction as 
> reconciled--despite it's not having a "C" status.

If I import data there is a 'helpful' change from 'n' to 'c'.
When I try to reconcile, the 'c' marked transactions don't appear in the
window, and I used to waste considerable time reconciling from the paper
statement when I had only part-downloaded the account data.
Now I change all the 'c' back to 'n' and reconcile speedily.
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