[GNC-dev] About 3.9 and reconciliation balances

[David Cousens]

Dale,

I was referring specifically to the dates the bank puts on transactions
included in the statement for a specific period but not necessarily the
dates that may have been recorded by a user in GnuCash. The latter of course
may be different and the reconciliation process deals with that. 

I disagree with you however about which date should be recorded as the
*reconciliation date* for a split to the specific account you are
reconciling for a transaction maked as 'y' (not 'c'). When you do a
reconciliation you are confirming that the transactions in your books agree
with the transactions in the statement up to the end date of the statement
are correct in the amounts recorded and that the balances recorded by the
bank and yourself  at that date are in agreement. 

This is the date you are reconciled to not the date at which you entered the
transaction into GnuCash or the date at which you posted the transaction
(the date at which the event which causes the transaction to be recorded
occurred).

Both of these dates are already recorded in the Gnucash transaction data
structure and recording them as the reconciliation date on a split does not
really add any new information.

David





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