Reconciliation RFE

[Dave Peticolas]

 writes:
> I manage my checking account in a similiar fashion as the "envelope" system.
> For those of you who aren't familiar with the 'envelope' system  of
> budgeting you use envelopes label for different budget catergories and put
> the budgeted amount into the envelope and then only spend what is in the
> envelope.  I use 4 bank registers instead.  One is for deposits, another is
> my wife's, one is mine and another is for long term items such as
> infrequently paid bills (ie. property tax, etc).  Each pay check goes into
> the deposits register and then I disperse from it to they other three based
> on the amount budgeted for each area.  
> 
> I thought I could handle this basicly the same way using GnuCash by creating
> a Checking Account and then creating subaccounts for my 4 areas.
> Technically, this is possible but when it comes to reconciling it does not
> work and would be nearly impossible to do.  
> 
> My request for enhancement is for the ability to include subaccounts in the
> reconciling process of a parent account.  Would this be possible?  Would it
> make sense to have this ability?  How difficult would it be?  I may consider
> attempting to implement this as it would make my life much easier in this
> regard.  I maintain the checking account and I find myself double entering
> the info, first into the register and then into GnuCash.  If this
> functionality could be implemented I would reduce it greatly because I would
> be able to track it in GnuCash and not have to maintain the paper version.

I think that would be possible and that it's a really good idea.
Off the top of my head, I don't think it would be too hard to
implement this either. Are you interested in working on this?
As a new feature, it would need to go into the development
version, so you would need to check out the CVS version of
GnuCash.

thanks,
dave