[GNC-dev] About 3.9 and reconciliation balances

[Christopher Lam]

Thank you David.

Further work for tighter safeguards is planned in
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/685 -- no scrubbing is currently on
the table but a warning during reconciliation if future splits are detected.

On Thu, 9 Apr 2020, 9:59 am David Cousens, <davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:

> I am now happy that there is no problem with the starting balance
> calculation
> in 3.9  and the problem was caused by a previously undetected finger
> problem
> on my part  and withdraw my previous qualms about retaining it for the
> future.
>
> I still think it is excessive to restrict the reconciliation date entry in
> any way but agree that a warning should be displayed if either a statment
> date in advance of "today" is entered, perhaps with the option for the user
> to confirm that they either want to retain the advance date or reenter it
> in
> a popup dialog.
>
> Also agree with a warning if any reconciled transactions with reconcile
> dates  in advance of today are detected in the file. I am less sure about
> assigning them to an arbitrary past date however.
>
> If a procedure for correcting them is developed it might be helpful if it
> could display data for transactiions with reconciled splits which have the
> advance date. The information that I found most useful to determine when I
> made the error were the transaction date posted and the transaction date
> entered into GnuCash and the reconciliation date and the account name or at
> least the account guid to confirm that all the affected splits are to a
> single account. This was particularlyuseful to me because i append an "_R"
> to statement pdf files I have reconciled and the file modified time allows
> me to determine the date I did a recociliation. In future I will append
> "_Ryyyymmdd" so i don't have to look up the modified times for the files as
> well.
>
> Bug797668 is now marked as resolved
>
>
>
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