reconcile dialog date

[Derek Atkins]

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Quoting don Paolo Benvenuto <paolobenve at gmail.com>:

> El mié, 31-05-2006 a las 14:50 -0400, Derek Atkins escribió:
>> Quoting don Paolo Benvenuto <paolobenve at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343527
>> >
>> > I think my proposal is logic: I propose to simply have in that dialog
>> > the current date.
>> >
>> > Why does it put a date calculated according to the previous
>> > reconciliations?
>>
>> Because it takes time for the Bank Statement to arrive via the mail, and
>> the reconciliation is based on the Bank Statement.  My Bank Statement is
>> dated e.g. May 31st, but I dont get it until June 7th.  When I reconcile,
>> I want to reconcile as of May 31st, not on June 10th when I finally get
>> around to processing the mail.
>
> What do you mean when you say: "the reconciliation is based on the Bank
> Statement".

In GENERAL, reconciliation is the process of matching your entries in
gnucash to some printed document that's associated with the physical
account that you're tracking.  So, in general, you reconcile your bank
account based on the bank statement.  Obviously a cash account doesn't
have a "statement".

> Reconciliations isn't only for bank accounts. Personally I use to
> balance my amount in gnucash with the money in the cash.

Fine, but that's only one of many accounts.  The vast majority of accounts
have some institution behind it that sends out regular statements.

> Anyway, reconciling the bank account, you must change the reconciliation
> date in the dialog, isn't it?

Nope.  Gnucash figures out the periodicity of the reconciliation, so after
the second regular statement gnucash always gets it right.  So I only have
to set the date for the first and second statement, and then never again.
Gnucash figures out the third, fourth, etc dates based on the regular
periodicity of the statements.

-derek

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