[GNC-dev] Further feedback

[Stephen M. Butler]

Span Assassin killed the zip file also.  Here is a link to the folder on
Google Drive that holds the three files.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=12SNv8TWEU8vr8JvWlNGAPKX8BjFbS6SM


On 2/10/19 12:29 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote:
> Spam Assassin killed this from going to GnuCash-Devel.  I zipped the
> three attachments and am trying again.
> --Steve
>
> On 2/10/19 12:10 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote:
>> Given the transactions shown in the Test2-Transactions.pdf (and the
>> screenshot) the in-house accountant said she could "live" with the
>> Test2-Reconcile.pdf report.
>>
>> However,
>>
>> 1.  Need to have the "as of" date when the report was ran.  She was
>> concerned about the $100,000 that was "cleared" but not reconciled until
>> I explained that the report was generated "today".  So, we need "today's
>> date" .  She would like to pick that date back as far as the
>> reconciliation date.
>>
>> 2.  Heavily berated for having a million dollar future expense without
>> having the million dollars in the bank to cover it!  mea culpa!  I
>> should have opened the bank with $1,150,000.00 and saved that 10 minute
>> conversation.
>>
>> 3.  She had a hard time wrapping brain around two states of not
>> reconciled transactions:  Cleared and Un-reconciled.  Thought they
>> should be combined.
>>
>> 4.  She would really like the report reformatted more like a statement:
>>        Reconciliation Report as of                                
>> *10-Feb-2019*
>>        Account:  _Assets:Bank_
>>        Reconcile-Date: *                                           
>> 15-Jan-2019*
>>        Beginning Bank Balance:                                    
>> *$150,000.00*
>>        Reconciled Transactions:
>>        Date        Num    Description        Debit    Credit
>>         <<the reconcile list>>            _________   __________
>>                     Reconciled Totals:        $0.00   $10,111.00  _*$
>> -10,111.00*_
>>         Ending Bank Balance:                                      
>> *$139,889.00*
>>         Outstanding Transactions:
>>         Date        Num    Description       Debit    Credit
>>
>>         <<cleared and unreconciled>>
>>         << through the report date>>      _________  __________
>>                     Outstanding Totals:       $0.00 $101,000.00  
>> _*$-101,000.00*_
>>         Check Register Balance:                                  *$ 
>> 38,889.00*
>>
>> 5.  She "could" live with the other report as is attached -- but doesn't
>> want to.
>>
>> 6.  Contrary to me, she doesn't want to see transactions past the report
>> date.    (Really bothered by that million dollar airplane.)
>>
>> 7.  She would like to pick the report date so she could generate the
>> reconciliation report as if it were 15-Jan-2019 and the report would
>> ignore anything after that date (even on the outstanding).  Thus the
>> only outstanding would be those transactions up through the report date
>> that were not reconciled.
>>
>> 8.  She really could not care less if the split has been "cleared" as it
>> is still "not yet reconciled". 
>>
>>
>> Told her I would raise the idea but was not sure it would fly.  
>>
>> {I'm still hearing that I should have funded that million dollars back
>> in December}                             
>>
>> --Steve
>>

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Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM
Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com
kg7je at arrl.net
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